TECH BUZZ: Everybody, Hugh Hefner has made it to Twitter. The tweets aren't quite as aged as Ivy Bean's , BUT, is it an unfortunate happenstance that both Hugh and Ivy recently tweeted about playing dominoes? I think not…

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The Best Links:

1. Twitter.com/hughhefner
2. Hugh Hefner playing Dominos
3. Ivy Bean playing Dominos

CULTURE BUZZ: Browse through 53 archival issues of Playboy, for the articles of course, and zoom at will. Downside is installing Microsoft's Silverlight, which is like Flash, only not actually Flash. Upside is issues ranging from 1954 to 2006 — you can read Nabokov and Sartre, and then you can watch how everything went downhill fast in the '80s.

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The Best Links:

1. The Playboy Archive
2. Fellini’s “Satyricon” Photo Essay (May 1970, NSFW)
3. Sartre, The Parisians and The Germans (January 1966)
4. Interview With Allen Ginsburg (April 1969)
5. Nabokov’s “Despair” (December 1965)
6. Via Fimoculous

CELEBRITY BUZZ: Former Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan is now blogging for Playboy. About the economy. Of course. It's nice to see Duff can still line up these side-gigs despite the job market being so tough for journalists out there.

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The Best Links:

1. Appetite For Investment (NSFW Ads, As It’s Playboy)
2. “Hey, I don’t know about the rest of you, but I only read Playboy for the stock tips.”
3. “Like any of those other fucking guys know what they’re talking about. “
4. Duff McKagan on Wikipedia

CULTURE BUZZ: Hot new Playboy Playmate didn’t have the heart to tell her cancer-stricken mom that she posed nude for the magazine. Do Asians love Guitar Hero or what? She also poses with an abacus and a graphing calculator in the shoot. Not really, but that would have been kind of amazing.

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The Best Links:

1. Funny or Die: Grace Kim Featured in Playboy Playmate Presidential Debate
2. See Some Bikini Pics
3. E! Online Insider Community Discusses Grace Kim, Post More Photos
4. MySpace.com - Grace Kim - Whoa, She’s 29!
5. More Grace Kim Links
6. November Playmate Grace Kim Is A Guitar Hero Hottie

SCIENCE BUZZ: Using Playboy photos from 1960 to 2000, a new study maps age and physical measurements of Playmates to the socio-economic conditions of the times. This is the only reason to ditch that liberal arts major and become a scientist.

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The Best Links:

1. Playboy Playmate Curves: Read The Study, Download the PDF
2. Mercyhurst College Is Responsible For This High-Brow Study

CELEBRITY BUZZ: Rachelle Leah is a UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) host and Novembers Playboy cover girl. She’s known as UFC’s most popular and hottest octagon girl (the girl who carries the card around the cage during matches) and Yahoo swears she’s more than just a pretty face. Beautiful, talented, and smart. She’s got it all.

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The Best Links:

1. Playboy Preview Photos
2. Stuff Cover Shoot Video (With a Tiger!!)
3. Interview With Her
4. Video From The Playboy Shoot
5. Her Myspace
6. UFC’s Leah more than just a pretty face
7. Complex Magazine Shoot Video

FOOD BUZZ: Playboy now has a wine collection: limited-allocation wines bottled with vintage magazine covers. Surprisingly, none of the wines are described as “full-bodied.”

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The Best Links:

1. Playboy Wine Collection
2. A Jug of Wine, a Nudie Pic, and Thou: Playboy Wines
3. Playboy Makes Wine a Little Sexier

The Library of Congress produces a braille version of the girlie magazine. I guess the blind are the only people who actually do read Playboy for the articles.

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The Best Links:

1. Related: Porn For The Blind

SPORTS BUZZ: 23-year-old divorcee tennis player Ashley Harkleroad appears in the August issue of Playboy. Harkleroad, ranked 61st with zero WTA titles, is the first professional tennis player to appear in Playboy. At least she can be first at something!

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The Best Links:

1. Ashley Harkleroad’s Playboy Pics
2. The Playboy Cover With Some Harkleroad Quotes
3. Ashley Harkleroad Poses for Playboy Before She’s Forgotten
4. 23-year-old Divorcee is Engaged and Will Appear in Playboy
5. Ashley Harkleroad is the 17th Athlete to Pose for Playboy
6. Ashley Harkleroad: Bio, Quotes, Pictures
7. US Tennis Star To Bare All, Pictures
8. Ashley Harkleroad Pictures
9. Images of Athletes Posing for Playboy
10. Serena Williams is “happy” for Harkleroad

TECH BUZZ: Always wanted to flash your naughties in the pages of Playboy ? Well, now the nudie mag (we mean “gentleman’s monthly”) has partnered with YouTube to pick a naked lady straight out of the teh Internetz to celebrate its 55th anniversary issue. With a tepid audience response and a dismally low number of video submissions, it looks like Grandpa Hef might want to stop trying to figure out “this damn computerbox.”

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The Best Links:

1. Live Clothed Aspiring Playmates!
2. “Gymnastics, Hometowns, and Lasagna” Or How to Not Become a Playboy Centerfold
3. “Now You Have a Five-and-a-half-decade-old American Gentleman’s Institution to Supply You With Amateur Eye Candy.”
4. Playboy to Internet: “Is Anybody Out There?”
5. Can YOU Outskank YouTube?
6. ‘Tis a Dark Day in the Webosphere When Amateur Models Trying Out for Playboy Can’t Find Viewers On YouTube
7. These Ladies Are Looking Hot And “Strumpetuous”

TECH BUZZ: She’s been named as Playboy’s 2008 Cyber Girl of the Year. She loves Final Fantasy because of all the “sidequests.” Which reminds me: RPG porn does exist (and is not safe for work, of course)!

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The Best Links:

1. Nsfw: Playboy’s Jo Garcia Pwns Wii Fit Girl
2. The 11 Most Scorching-Hot Female Cosplayers Ever
3. “Jo Garcia: Cyber Girl of the Year isn’t faking it “
4. Check Out Her Official Photo Gallery, Plus a Video Interview
5. Full Interview - and Slightly NSFW Pics
6. Jo’s Inner Complexity: Prefers Coke to Pepsi, But Aquafina to Dasani
7. Is That a SheMale?
8. Wow! a Hot Girl Who Likes Video Games?
9. Cyber Girl of The Year Jo Garcia (NSFW Pics)
10. Playboy Model is Human, Likes Games, Gets the “Zodiac Spear”
11. More Photos! A Video!