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10/03/11
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Elisa Sednaoui Is Tired of Spelling Her Name For You

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Puff Piece: A historically minded look at the quilted Skyliner jacket, quickly becoming the outerwear piece of the season. [Valet]

Tweetness Follows: A longform look at the business of Twitter, and the hard choices ahead of them. [NYMag]

The Lookbook that Broke the Internet: Ovadia & Sons’ handsome lookbook (as shot by Justin Chung and styled by Lawrence Schlossman), together with a few words from the designers. [Grungy Gentleman]

Still Foxy After All These Years: Pam Grier talks shop, as the Jackie Brown Blu-Ray makes it to shelves. [GQ]

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03/22/11
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Janet Agren Prefers a One-Piece

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Happy Birthday To You: A short essay celebrating Twitter’s birthday as ambivalently as possible. [Gizmodo]

The Tortoise and the Flair: An ode to the tortoise-shell Wayfarer shade. [Men’s Flair]

A Whole New Ballgame: A week and a half before Opening Day, Valet rounds up the best in baseball jackets. [Valet]

In the latest Chanel spot, Keira Knightley tears through London on a Ducati bike, before moving on to more exciting pursuits. Not a bad way to spend three minutes. [All the Rage]

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12/15/10
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Violante Placido Has No Use for Chairs

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Happy Holidays: Kanye made this Christmas song for you because he wants your respect. What has Taylor Swift done for you lately? [Vulture]

Welcome to the Internet: Mark McNairy enters the world of e-commerce with a flood of suede longwings. [Free/Man]

The Funniest People on Twitter: A round-table talk with four guiding lights of 140-character comedy. [Splitsider]

Strapping: The first iPod Nano watchstraps we can even think about endorsing. [Design Boom]

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09/02/10
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Olivia Munn Is Not Pandering to Jezebel

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Balloon Animals: Takashi Murakami hits the big time, getting “Kaikai” and “Kiki” balloons into the Macy’s Thanksgiving parade. Expect it to be the most frightening parade yet. [Josh Spear]

The Bearded Man: Journalism at its finest: Julia Felsenthal tracks down a bearded gentleman from the J.Crew catalog. It turns out he does IT consulting and has feelings just like anyone else. [Browbeat]

The Rebirth of the Shoe: A pair of beaten-up loafers gets a new lease on life, thanks to Alden’s in-house restoration team. [Red Clay Soul]

You Can’t Be Right All the Time: A tech guru revisits his first take on “twttr” circa 2006. Not surprisingly, he didn’t think it would catch on. [TechCrunch]

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06/24/10
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Our New Hobby

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Hawkeye: Eroticfalconry.com is the best thing in the history of the internet. [Erotic Falconry, via WBE]

Well Played: The Neiman Marcus Group’s Nick Wooster is an incredibly well-dressed man. Also, a big fan of the tie bar. [Sartorially Inclined]

This Can’t be Twitter, Because There is No True Twitter: Appparently, tweeting feels like love from a hormonal perspective. Which explains why Andy Rooney doesn’t like it. [TechCrunch]

Golden Years: Are we in a cultural golden age? This one’s worth it just for the pic. [AV Club]

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06/21/10
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Miranda Kerr is a Married Woman

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The Tweet Science: This amazing web widget shows what Twitter was doing at every point in every World Cup game. Except for when it was down. [The Guardian]

Think Big: Among Manute Bol’s myriad accomplishments: inventing the phrase “my bad.” He will be missed. [Boing Boing]

File Under “Things We Will Never Own”: This rare Jaguar D-type is among the coolest things we’ve ever seen. [Luxist]

I Don’t Know How That Copy of Playgirl Got There: A behind-the-scenes look at Nightmare on Elm Street 2, long known as the Moby Dick of unintentional homoeroticism. You’ve never seen a more sheepish documentary. [Four Four]

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04/14/10
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Mona Kuhn is Not Afraid to Crop

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Out of Frame: The hips, it would appear, do not lie. [Fashion Copious]

A Gentleman’s Guide to Bright Colors: The basics of working a few pops of color into your wardrobe. This kind of thing is what makes men into style guys. [Valet]

Don’t Forget the Starch: Bruce Pask is on a handkerchief kick, for reasons elaborated herein. [The Moment]

We the Tweeple: The drunken tweet you sent at 3am Sunday morning is now part of congressional record. Consider yourself warned. [Epicenter]

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10/08/09
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Anouck Lepere is Your New IT Staff

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She Means Business: And don’t give her any of this Linux crap. [Refinery29]

Hooverville: George Saunders takes a stroll through a modern tent city. [GQ]

Web Civics: Choire Sicha ponders the ethics of blogging. Sadly, it’s in the Times, so he can’t call anyone a douchebag. [NYTimes]

Victory!: After literally hours of pleading, Tracy Morgan has finally joined Twitter. [Twitter]

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08/13/09
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Just You and the Camera

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Untouched: A few supermodels show their unairbrushed side. Also, no makeup. [The Cut]

Axe Man: The Summer of Death claims Les Paul. [NYTimes]

A Frame-Up: A video essay on the cinematic craft of Mad Men, in preparation for this Sunday. [Film Freak Central]

War of the Worlds: The history of the recent Twitter wars. [Epicenter]

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07/13/09
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The Tale of the Tape

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As tech trends go, Twitter is unusually ripe for conceptual art—in fact, is @barbarakruger taken yet? This one is dubbed Murmur Study #1 (via NotCot), and it plants 20 receipt-style twitter tickers at the top of a wall, letting the tweets pile up on a bench below. By the end of the day, gallery-goers should be facing quite a pile…especially if anything happens to Jeff Goldblum.

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07/10/09
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In Our Hearts, She’s the Only Hedda Gabler

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Fifth Wave: Mary-Louise Parker is empowered enough to bake a few pies naked and be ok with that. [Esquire]

Tweet Memories: Buckingham Palace signs up for twitter; a nation cringes in discomfort. [Vanity Fair]

The Boots of Freedom: Enormous pre-distressed boots continue their march of trendhood. [We Are the Market]

Got Me On My Knees, Leila: The best Burkina Fasan animated short you’ll see all year. Actually, maybe all decade. [Vulture]

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06/30/09
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It’s a Lovely Vase Too

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Interior Décor: Refinery29 continues to dig up the very best in Korean glossies. [Refinery29]

Tweet Surrender: The fastest twitter app on the books…if you’re into that sort of thing. [Gizmodo]

House of Mirrors: Kanye’s stage design for his latest tour looks incredible, dystopian, terrifying. Now if he’d just lay off the vocoder. [Kanye West’s Blog]

Wolff at the Door: Michael Wolff muses through the Madoff verdict. [Vanity Fair]

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