Let’s face facts: Young folks don't need any encouragement to act out, get reckless—in a nutshell, be stupid. And that’s just the Diesel message. Oh, kids these days.

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The home page of Huffington Post carried another media report Wednesday by Story Worldwide’s CEO and Chief Editorial Officer Kirk Cheyfitz. “For Tiger Photos, NBC Caves in to Annie Lebovitz” discusses the restrictions the photographer demanded and got from TV networks that wanted to use her images. Kirk's not happy with what this might say about the media’s volatile climate. Kirk wrote:

"I was mildly alarmed to see news organizations substituting Leibovitz's rules for their own judgment about how long viewers need to actually see a photograph."

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I’m pretty old fashioned when it comes to my books, newspapers, and magazines. Yet despite my marginalia, I’m forever forgetting where that certain line or passage is—right when I want to read it to someone. Enter Google Books. I can certainly see the utility in that! And now it’s added magazines to the lineup. I want to scream “Disconnect!” but I can’t stop reading New York.

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Merry Movember! Now even non-Williamsburgers have an excuse to grow a ‘stache. It’s Movember—“Mo” for moustache, “vember” for November. Say what? Men across the globe are spending 30 days growing and grooming their moustaches. And, um, why? To bring awareness of and funding for the cancers that affect men.

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In September, The Huffington Post surpassed the Washington Post in terms of unique visitors. "The Huff Post was up 26% year-over-year to 9.4 million uniques, while uniques at the Washingtonpost.com dropped almost 30% to 9.2 million," reports Jennifer Saba at Editor & Publisher. Look out, media giants. You are never safe.

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It's hard for me to badmouth Marc Jacobs, but this needs to be said. The West Village has become the ritzy part of town cluttered with upscale brunch spots, luxury shops, and the beatnik-turned-bourgeois. And it needs to be stopped.

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In preparation for December’s Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, advocates for environmental awareness are broadcasting their message to the world’s leaders online. They fear that many of them don’t take the crisis as seriously as they should and aren’t planning enough to prevent global catastrophe. The upper limit of carbon dioxide we can safely have in our atmosphere is 350 PPM (that's parts per million), and yet, as we all know, we’ve far surpassed that.

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This story is about one of my favorite topics: beer. Specifically Coors Light. I’ve been drinking a lot of Coors Light lately, so this assignment, well, it seems like fate.

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There were frogs. There were also some parrots. Turns out there are ants, too. Asian ants.

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Remember Mariah Carey? Think hard. You were in middle school and had horrible taste in music. It’s okay to be embarrassed — we all did it. Well, she’s back with a new album and just as vain as ever!

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This commercial has it all. Norwegians! Mustaches! Sex! Viking-hipsters’ hanky-panky! Whatever they’re selling, I've got to have it.

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On Tuesday night I got an invitation to try the new Facebook Lite — a stripped-down version with only basic functionality: accepting friend requests, commenting, posting photo albums, etc. Hooray! To be rid of those damn quizzes and useless applications! I never cared what Twilight character you were and I never understood what a ninja battle was. This is like freedom.

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