The Yes Men, the same guys behind the fake New York Times prank , have done it again, this time distributing a fake New York Post filled with factual information that detail the threats posed by climate change. We can only assume that these guys are the product of Michael Moore eating Ashton Kutcher and pooping out citizen journalism pranksters.

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1. “The New York Post” Says We’re Screwed
2. Iraq War Ends! [PIC]

TECH BUZZ: New York Times journalist David Rohde was kidnapped by the Taliban 7 months ago, but the story's only just seeing the light of day, following Rohde's daring escape from his captors. Keeping the story quiet was the result of a collaborative cover-up between The New York Times and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales to make Rohde seem unimportant to his Taliban kidnappers. Meanwhile, Wikipedia's community is pissed . Free Speech debate!

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1. NYTimes and Wikipedia Save Reporter’s Life By NOT Reporting On His Capture
2. Keeping News of David Rohde’s Kidnapping Off Wikipedia
3. Was Wikipedia correct to censor news of David Rohde’s capture?
4. David Rohde, Times Reporter, Escapes Taliban After 7 Months
5. Check Out the Wikipedia ‘Discussion’ Page

A screengrab on the New York Times website shows the I'm a Mac/I'm a PC dudes staring up at a Death Row inmate. They're thinking…is he an alt or a bro ?

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1. NYTimes.com People Should Pay More Attention to Their Homepage
2. via Gawker
3. Dennis J. Skillicorn is On Missouri Death Row

It's nice to see the Dow is up (56,023!) but where has the most-emailed sidebar gone? It's fun to think that the paper will still be around 31 years from now.

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1. Via Soup

This handy dandy New York Times graphic breaks down disses, accusations and allegiances between feuding rappers 50 Cent and Rick Ross. They barely ever mention body weight! Fatties… Oh, and it's tiny so just click the pic to see the real deal.

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1. Topics Discussed During the 50 Cent / Rick Ross Feud
2. Hey NYT Copy Desk, Let’s Get That Spelling Right On Ja Rule, K?

Link: http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/2009...

Another of Christoph Niemann's charming animated explorations of modern life. This time around: The woe of wires.

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1. Previously: I Lego New York

The New York Times thought so. And I can see why! Thank God somebody still has standards in this day and age.

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1. Exclusive: 5 Images the New York Times Didn’t Want You to See
2. Amazon.com: All the Art That’s Fit to Print (And Some That Wasn’t): Inside The New York Times Op-Ed Page
3. Jerelle Kraus: author of a new book about the NYT Op-Ed page
4. Three Illustrations Too Sexy for the New York Times

Link: http://prototype.nytimes.com/gst/arti...

A new way to avoid actually reading the New York Times: A new web layout that simplifies the way you see each section Hit space to scroll ahead a section, or hit shift when hovering over any article to see a larger version. Seems to strike a nice balance between the hompage and an RSS feed.

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1. Via Fimoculous

Link: http://callmeishmael.org/a-chapterson...

Recently featured in the New York Times , singer-songwriter Patrick Shea is writing a song per chapter of Herman Melville's “Moby Dick”. Cliff Notes for music lovers!

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1. Composing Songs for the One That Got Away

Link: http://nymag.com/news/features/all-ne...

A profile of the NY Times' digital team. Is this the “only happy story in journalism?”

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1. Predicting the New York Times’ End - Featured on BuzzFeed

Link: http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/2008...

We can't help with the addiction but you will still probably love this visual essay in the NYT. Here is how it starts: “I like coffee so much that I have tea for breakfast: The first cup of the day in particular is so good that I’m afraid I won’t be able to properly appreciate it when I am half-asleep. Therefore, I celebrate it two hours later when I am fully conscious.”

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Link: http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.co...

The New York Times is liveblogging Thanksgiving. And it's actually quite charming! So if your family gets boring, check out what's up with the Kim Severson clan.

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1. Live Thanksgiving Blog: Wednesday Night Prep

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/boo...

The New York Times has joined the Gladwell backlash with a review calling his new book: “glib, poorly reasoned and thoroughly unconvincing”.

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1. Outliers: Malcolm Gladwell’s New Book
2. The Malcolm Gladwell Backlash

A fake copy of the New York Times, dated July 2009, declares the war over and trumpets many other liberal dreams. According to Gawker , volunteers are handing the paper out in New York today as part of an elaborate prank set up by the Yes Men.

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1. New York Times Digital Version
2. Fake New York Times Is The Work Of The Yes Men
3. Faux New York Times Organizer Site: Because We Want It.org
4. Pranksters The Yes Men

The New York Times runs a front page story with facts, interviews, and analysis supporting the ” racist belt ” theory proposed on BuzzFeed. That racist belt post really pissed people off but it turns out to be true! Click the image to read the whole story.

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1. BuzzFeed Suggests America Has A “Racist Belt” - Pisses Off Many Readers
2. NYT Posts Front Page Story Two Days Later Confirming The Theory
3. NYT Map Slide Show

An Op-Chart from the New York Times breaking down the height/weight comparisons of the last 100 years of presidential contenders. Click through for the larger version.

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CULTURE BUZZ: A new memoir, from New York Times columnist David Carr, is sort of the anti- made-up bestseller . Carr’s retelling of his long struggle with drugs is buttressed by serious reporting, not just his own recollections — interviews and documents support his investigation into his addiction, the birth of his twins, his struggle with cancer and his eventual return to the working world.

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1. Me and My Girls: An Excerpt From the Book
2. What Did Carr Leave Out of the Book?
3. Website for “Night of the Gun” — More Coming Soon
4. “The memoir genre has successfully completed rehab”
5. Buy “The Night of the Gun” Here
6. “Hooray! We thought that the writer-on-an-insane-drug-binge meme was dead.”
7. Biography from City File: David Carr
8. Columnist Biography: David Carr

TECH BUZZ: The New York Times has launched a plug-in (still in beta form) that will function as an intra-site social network without the whole “self-branding” thing. Academics and liberal boomers will finally have the chance to imitate their kids, only they’ll be swapping shared interest in “random play” with, you know, “foreign policy” and stuff.

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The Best Links:

1. New York Times Goes Social
2. Download TimesPeople Beta [With Firefox]
3. “It’s Not Trying to Get You Dates Or Make Friends, It’s Just Trying to Use the People You Trust to Help You Find Good Stuff.”