STYLE BUZZ: Alison Kelly (the Project Runway too-early-castoff) and beau Dane Risch (of band Salt And Samovar) have spearheaded a project in which they’ll design a tee-shirt that proclaims the initials of your sweetheart. You don’t have to be a pretty hipster to wear the shirts, but it doesn’t hurt.

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The Best Links:

1. Dahl And Dane (Create Your “I <3” Shirt Here)
2. Who’s Got A Heart On?
3. Alison Kelly Design
4. Dane Risch’s Band, Salt And Samovar

TECH BUZZ: Jake Bronstein - Road Rules contestant, former editor-at-large for FHM Magazine, and overall provocateur - is now a start-up personality, having founded a “blagazine” meant to encourage people to have fun. Boasting an impressive resume, Jake might be one of the few from The Real World and Road Rules contestant pool to have opted for loftier goals than, say, whatever this is.

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The Best Links:

1. Have Fun!
2. Who Is Jake Bronstein?
3. What Does Jake Bronstein’s Penis Look Like?
4. Jake Bronstein’s Site
5. LL Cool J: Ladies Love Cool Jake
6. Even Gawker Can’t Help But Call Jake’s Stunts “Amusing”
7. Jake Outsourced Blogging to a “Virtual Personal Assistant Service” in India

The band’s video for “Sophisticated Side Ponytail” is mesmerizing, but should be avoided by epileptics and hipster-haters at all costs. Plus, when’s the last time you heard a shoutout to Shamu?

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CULTURE BUZZ: According to a new piece in the trend-hungry New York Observer, reactionary young gay men are intentionally adopting traits of their flaboyant forefathers. Trading indie rock and seedy dives for torch songs and piano bars, these fellas are making “old gay” new again. Not to get all “cultural theorist” here, but is it really possible to now reposition the same things that historically isolated men as now being semi-ironic? So what if a gay guy likes Stephen Sondheim and Stephen Malkmus? Ugh, I need a boyfriend. Can someone write a trend piece about that?

The Best Links:

1. “Swish is Back With a Vengeance,” Says The New York Observer
2. Heroin Dabblers And Pointy Shoe Wearers: The New Gay
3. Which “Gay” Are You?
4. Christian Vs. Austin/Tyra Vs. Bea: The New Adventures Of Old Gays

CULTURE BUZZ: Why Barack Obama is your new BFF. While Barack drops knowledge across the globe, he still finds time to appeal to your inner hipster.

The Best Links:

1. Barack Obama Is Your New Fixie
2. Shader Lab (Creators)

Try to get Bingo by spotting cliché hipster gear. Print this board out and see how long it takes you to spot PBR’s, a pair of chunky glasses, or a Jagger-esque ‘do. BuzzFeed’s personal best is 8 minutes and 38 seconds.

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The Best Links:

1. Hipster Bingo Board #3- New!
2. Hipster Bingo Board #2 (So You Can Compete With a Friend)
3. Hipster Bingo Board #1 (Pictured)

STYLE BUZZ: So much for nuns and Mexican ladies having all the fun! One jewelry designer is making the Catholic prayer beads available to all the nice Jewish girls and boys. Who would’ve thought a simple accessory might finally bring an end to the war that brews in Williamsburg?

The Best Links:

1. Tiny Torahs? Sounds Like Meshuggeneh.
2. Become a True Believer
3. “The Star of David Walks Into a Bar…”

MUSIC BUZZ: The boy-girl self-described “fantasy rock” duo is quietly making a name for themselves on the East Coast as they continue to draw comparisons to Postal Service and Broken Social Scene. Alongside labelmates MGMT, Savoir Adore is continuing in Brooklyn’s tireless fight to conquer the iTunes library of the skinny-jeans-and-bedhead set.

The Best Links:

1. Download 4 Savoir Adore Songs for $0.00!
2. Savoir Adore: “Backed by a Trained Chorus of Several Small Birds and Band of Guinea Pigs On Wheels”
3. Savoir Adore on MySpace!
4. Savoir Adore: “‘Creepy’ in the Best Ways Ever.”
5. “Some of Their Songs Remind Me of the Mellow Epicdom of Broken Social Scene, While Others Reminded Me of the Fun, Electro-pop Sounds of the Postal Service.”

CULTURE BUZZ: They’re young, they’re classy, and they’re making the Dewey Decimal system sexy (although the librarians themselves don’t necessarily agree). Take a look, it’s in a book! The Tina-Fey-lookalikes who are navigating the card catalogs these days are making reading fun again.

The Best Links:

1. The New York Times Caught On First
2. Die Hipster Librarian Trash?
3. A Hipster Librarian Enclave Grows In Brooklyn
4. Annoyed Librarian: “Don’t Fight the Stereotypes”
5. “I’ll Never Be Cool Enough to Be a Hipster Librarian”
6. Cliques And Cocktails? No Thank You.
7. “I’m an Eating, Shitting, Drinking, Fucking, Librarian… I’m Not Proud, I’m Real.”
8. “I’m Glad We Have Hipster Librarians and Tattooed Librarians. I’m Also Glad We Have Baby Boomer Librarians, Conservative Librarians, Techie Librarians, Activist Librarians, Librarians Who Are Veterans, Librarians Who Have Come from Other Professions, Librarians Who Are Into Sports, and Librarians Who Watch the Reality TV.”
9. Meet The “Guybrarian”

FOOD BUZZ: Young folks dwelling in urban settings are finding ways to grow mini-farms with limited space and resources. We never considered keeping compost in your freezer or waking up at 6am to feed your hens as being glamorous, but the New York Times certainly makes it look that way.

The Best Links:

1. NY Times Article: Williamsburg Hipsters Starting Miniature Farms on The Roofs of Their Loft Buildings
2. The NYT Hipster Farmer Article Contains Lots of Stuff White People Like
3. Urban Outfitters Has Started Stocking Rakes and Planters in Their Housewares Section
4. You Can Even Rent Beehives, Fruit Trees, and Privately-Leased Cows
5. The Greenhorns - a Documentary Film That Explores the Lives of America’s Young Farming Community
6. Farmer’s Market Frequented by Well-Off Looking Youngsters
7. Hipsters Growing Their Own Food Is Nothing New
8. Small farms Cater to Rich People
9. Website for Awesome Farm - a Pasture-based Farm in Tivoli, New York