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Brand Tags
Business Buzz An attempt to gauge what people really think about brands via the power of tagging. Users are presented with a wide variety of brand logos — from ABC and Absolut to YouTube and Zune — and asked to tag them with the first word that pops into their heads. You can then see the user-generated tag cloud and see what other people think about the same brands.
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Edwards Endorses Obama
Politics Buzz Edwards is expected to make his announcement at a rally in Michigan tonight. Edwards has held out for a long time, and his wife still appears to be supporting Clinton, but Edwards has recently been saying Obama is “clearly the nominee,” and his endorsement will come tonight.
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Foie Gras Ban Lifted
Food Buzz Chicago lifts its foie gras ban, foodies rejoice. With the ban’s sponsor shouting objections, the City Council finally voted to overturn its ridiculous ban on duck (or goose) liver specially fattened via force-feeding. Chicago’s finer restaurants will no doubt be busy tonight.
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Apologizing To The Pats
Sports Buzz The Boston Herald makes a formal apology to the Patriots for accusing them falsely. The day before the last Super Bowl, the Herald ran a story about how the Pats had videotaped the Rams before Super Bowl XXXVI, except oops that never happened. Now the paper is officially saying sorry and readers are incensed.
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Kissing Scarlett Johansson
Celebrity Buzz Still from the trailer of the next Scarlett Johansson/Woody Allen movie, “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” involve the starlet making out with Penelope Cruz. What’s with our fascination with who Scarlett Johansson’s kissing? I’m not going to look for meaning here, but instead give you more pictures of Scarlett Johansson kissing people, mostly women.
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The Day There Was No News
TV Buzz What the BBC would look like if there was no news. Two different takes on what would happen if the news cycle just plain stopped.
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Chronotron
Tech Buzz A Flash game in which you coordinate with your time-traveling self to complete puzzles. The game does a better job of explaining it that I can — basically, your robot character has a TARDIS that lets you meet up with past versions of yourself to work together. Beware of paradoxes!
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Ug99
Science Buzz The U.N. warns that a quarter of the world’s wheat could be threatened by a new, “highly pathogenic strain” of wheat stem rust called Ug99. The scary what blight strain was first detected in Iran and may be making its way towards the bountiful wheat fields of Asia and the Near East.
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Real World: Brooklyn
TV Buzz MTV’s original reality TV show comes to the outer boroughs. New Yorkers wonder: Will it land in Williamsburg? Some people seem bothered, but then most of the hipsters in Williamsburg already star in a reality show in their heads, so things wouldn’t really change that much.
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Unassisted Triple Play
Sports Buzz Cleveland’s Asdrubal Cabrera made only the 14th unassisted triple play in major league history playing against the Toronto Blue Jays Monday night. A line drive to second base with the runners going, and Cabrera makes the triple play look like no big deal. He also hit a homerun earlier in the day in the first game of a double-header, making him the first player to ever do both in the same day.
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Visioneers
Movie Buzz Starring Zach Galifianakis in the strangest trailer of the year. I have no idea what this movie is really about, but it’s worth noting for two reasons. 1) Zach Galifianakis. 2) It outdoes those bizarre homemade Mike Gravel ads in terms of surreality.
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Kittens On Treadmills!!!
Culture Buzz Kittens + treadmills = YouTube sub-genre!! Look at the cats, so mesmerizing on their treadmills. Walk, kitty, walk!!!
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O.J. Mayo Scandal
Sports Buzz The single-season USC basketball player has allegedly been receiving gifts and cash from recruiters since high school. Mayo played one season at USC and will be heading into the NBA draft with a cloud hanging over his head. Louis Johnson, a former friend of Mayo’s, says the USC star has been receiving money and perks — like a flat-screen TV — from an L.A. promoter for several years.
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Twittering The China Earthquake
Tech Buzz Twitter updates provided breaking news on the major quake near Chengdu, China. Twitter users, coordinated largely through the efforts of Robert Scoble, were providing news of the earthquake — including first-hand accounts — before mainstream news sites began reporting about the 7.8 quake. (Related: Twittering wildfires.)
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BlackBerry Bold
Tech Buzz BlackBerry announces a shiny new device. Known more prosaically as the BlackBerry 9000, the new smartphone sports a new, bigger screen and faster connection and processing speeds. No firm sales date yet, but it should be available sometime this summer.
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When Obama Wins
Politics Buzz It’s the new Barack Obama is your new bicycle. Inspired by the Twitter chatter on how the world will be forever changed when Obama wins, Jason Kottke makes a microsite to share that utopian vision.
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Your Mom
Culture Buzz It’s Mother’s Day on Sunday. What have you done for your mom recently? We were going to put together a heart-warming tribute to moms, but instead we found a group of sites doing a variation on the Your Mom joke theme.
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Creepy Food Statues
Food Buzz Beyond the ubiquitous International Thumbs Up Guy, there’s a whole world of weird food statues out there. The New York Times has a quick look at phenomenon of eerie fiberglass food vendor statues from around the globe. The hot dog guy always makes me feel a little sick with the way he spurts mustard and ketchup on himself; he’s included with other disturbing examples I’ve found.
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