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This article is from the archive of our partner . Let's say your husband or wife has a friend who will be coming to your city for two weeks on business. This friend writes to you and your spouse, asking if you can put him up while he's in town. Has this person committed a gross violation of etiquette?
That Was Quick: Cathie Black Out as NYC Schools Chancellor
Dennis Walcott, Black's replacement, has served as the Deputy Mayor for Education and Community Development. He's also worked as a kindergarten teacher and as the president and CEO of the New York Urban League. Perhaps not coincidentally, Walcott attended New York public schools, as have his children and grandchild. Mayor Bloomberg announced Black's departure, and Walcott's appointment, at a press conference this morning.
Per Colbert's Challenge, The Daily Finds South Dakota's Richest Dog
This article is from the archive of our partner . The Daily, Rupert Murdoch's iPad newspaper, has tracked down the richest dog in South Dakota. Why did they do this? Because Stephen Colbert told them to. A bit of background here.
Circling
When the reality show Shark Tank premiered on ABC in August 2009, US unemployment was at a twenty-six-year high and still climbing. Today, the jobless rate has dropped off from those dire altitudes—somewhat—but this reflects a withered labor force more than it does any true economic revival.
Spinning Songs from Movies
The melodic information in a work like " Upular ," one of the movie-based songs, comes from mostly unmusical moments in the 2009 Pixar film Up: the old man shouts something crotchety, the little kid says something cheerful, and Bertke plucks out syllables and vowel sounds and stitches them together into a tune you can hum. He sets this against a bed of chords sampled from Michael Giacchino's score, adds a couple of understated cymbal tracks, and a pop song is made.
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Odd that in her quest to perpetually release the hounds, @SarahPalinUSA is doing to Joe McGinniss what she claimed he'd do to her.
Mark Twain Never Said He Read Obituaries With Pleasure
And Martin Luther King never said the quote that’s being attributed to him, either ilbusca / Getty / The Atlantic This article is from the archive of our partner . "I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure." That quote, attributed to Mark Twain, popped up in a lot of places yesterday, as some people found themselves struggling with their feelings after the death of Osama bin Laden.
Was April 11, 1954 the Most Boring Day in History?
This article is from the archive of our partner . It's a bad day to be Abdullah Atalar, an engineering professor at Turkey's Bilkent University. That's because Atalar was born on April 11, 1954, which a Cambridge computer scientist has determined to be "the most boring day in history." A bit of background: The scientist in question is William Tunstall-Pedoe, an executive at a search engine project called True Knowledge.
Why 'Rent Is Too Damn High' Candidate Will Never Be Governor
The tirades against Jews might hurt him October 21, 2010 This article is from the archive of our partner . Jimmy McMillan, New York's gubernatorial candidate for the Rent Is Too Damn High Party, was the clear crowd favorite of Monday's overstuffed debate. With his striking facial hair and non-sequitur one-liners, McMillan quickly charmed the commentariat.
Libyan Government Shuts Down 'Sex-Positive URL Shortener'
This week, the blogger and sex educator Violet Blue wrote that her URL shortening site, Vb.ly, had been seized by the Libyan government. The site, which debuted in August 2009, was billed as "the Internet's first and only sex-positive link shortener service"--meaning that it wouldn't filter out links to sites of a sexual or pornographic nature, as some other sites do. The Vb.ly home page featured a photo of Blue in a sleeveless top drinking from a glass bottle.
'Askers' vs. 'Guessers'
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