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How Harry Keeps His Sex Life Out Of The Papers: Posh Girls Only
via The Daily Beast – Latest Articles http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/04/tatler-prince-harry-s-girls-must-have-something-to-lose-by-going-to-the-press.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Farticles+%28The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles%29
As Facebook hits its billionth user, it tapped its first agency of record for an emotional spot titled “Things That Connect.”
via Advertising Age – Homepage http://adage.com/article/digital/facebook-emotional-spot-wieden-kennedy/237569/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+adage%2Fhomepage+%28Advertising+Age+-+Homepage%29
Facebook taps Nike’s agency for an ad to celebrate a milestone — and begin a tougher task ahead: finding the next billion Facebook users in emerging markets.
via Advertising Age – Homepage http://adage.com/article/digital/facebook-serves-1-billion-makes-a-video-ad-celebrate/237571/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+adage%2Fhomepage+%28Advertising+Age+-+Homepage%29
For those afraid that the theft of $20 million in maple syrup earlier this year might affect your breakfast table, relax. It’s been recovered.
via Coudal Partners Blended Feed http://coudal.com/archives/2012/10/20_million_in_m.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CoudalFreshSignals+%28Coudal%3A+Fresh+Signals%29
Bobby Valentine Wrecks While Texting and Driving … His Bike. Valentine was reading a text from Dustin Pedroia when he crashed and landed near the Central Park Reservoir on Tuesday, according to the New York Times. “I shouldn’t have been reading a text while I was riding, †he said. “That’s the wrong thing to […]
via Boston Daily http://blogs.bostonmagazine.com/boston_daily/2012/10/03/bobby-valentine-wrecks-bike/
Private U.S. businesses added 162,000 jobs last month, according to payroll processor ADP, more than the 153,000 expected by economists.
via WSJ.com: What's News US http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444223104578034133312076100.html?mod=rss_whats_news_us
A study-based analysis of UK gaming magazines in the 1980s and 90s argues that the analysis of computer games, independent of attributes such as the platform or narrative, becomes more evident after March 1985 when the term ‘gameplay’ begins to be used in this media.
via MetaFilter http://www.metafilter.com/120520/275-years-of-gameplay
PRESTON, Mo. — On the drive from Springfield to Independence, before I committed my traditional travel ritual of Losing Expensive Electronics, I saw Robert Schuetz’s home sticking out like a flaming thumb. Inside the limits of tiny Preston, Schuetz had placed eight gigantic, self-made signs.
Intrigued, I parked and walked up to Schuetz’s door. An elderly man in jeans and plaid muted his TV — one could hear the japes of Kevin James and the King of Queens cast — and asked me if I was familiar with Obama’s “martial law order.” I wasn’t so, he invited me inside. The well-kept living room was devoted to TV, DVDs, and books, including a red-bound Bible on a handy endtable. An adjoining room was set up with a computer, radios, and reams of paper that Schuetz had printed out.
“I just put in the search term and I find out what I need,” he said. Schuetz handed me some of his latest findings — a WorldNetDaily article about biased polls, a Daily Mail piece about Monica Lewinsky’s book deal, and the name of the the so-called martial law order: The National Defense Resources Prepardness order.
There was so much material doubting the president’s religion that I had to ask: Was Schuetz comfortable voting for Mitt Romney. “Yeah, the Mormons are okay,” he said. “You seen what they’re doing to Catholics now? They’re saying they’ll shut down Catholic schools unless they teach Islam.”
Schuetz went on to explain his fight with the city over water and free speech rights, but I had to go. “The next sign I’m gonna put out there,” said my host, “is gonna say: Impeach the Sonovabitch!”
via Slate Blogs http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2012/10/03/the_swing_voter.html
New York City officials weren’t exactly helpful when Ken Burns and his daughter were making a documentary about the racially charged 1989 Central Park jogger case, but now they’re hoping the finished film, The Central Park Five, will be useful to them.
The film, which got a special screening in New York on Tuesday night, explores the lives of the five men who were convicted and later cleared in the case which became a symbol of racial tension in a metropolis besieged by crime. (The terms “wolf pack” and “wilding” were added to the media’s lexicon of fear-inducing terms as a result of the case.) Â The documentary, which was shown at the Cannes, Telluride and Toronto film festivals, Â scrutinizes the initial convictions of the Central Park Five, noting, for instance that the five men did not appear to be in the area of the park where the rape occurred, that their DNA was not found on the victim and that their confessions did not jibe with one another’s.
Despite the movie’s perspective, the  New York Times reported  that lawyers for the city of New York have subpoenaed notes and outtakes from the documentary, which Burns directed with his daughter Sarah Burns and her husband David McMahon, in order to determine whether the material can help them fight a $50 million federal civil rights lawsuit that five men filed nine years ago as a result of their experience.
In 2009, on the 20th anniversary of the incident, their lawyer Jonathan Moore called that experience “the most racist prosecution that occurred in the City of New York.”
Ken Burns told the Times that the Sept. 12 subpoena came after the city had spent years declining the filmmakers’ requests for interviews to explain the actions taken by law-enforcement officials involved in the case.
“There is a great deal of disappointment that it came to this, given the fact that we had given so many of the factions in this complicated story many, many opportunities, on a regular basis, to comment,†Burns said.
The city insists that cops and prosecutors acted appropriate given the information that they had available to them then.. “We believe that based on the information that the police and prosecutors had at the time, they had probable cause to proceed, and the confessions were sound,† a city spokeswoman told the Times.  [New York Times]
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via Movieline http://movieline.com/2012/10/03/new-york-city-subpoenas-ken-burns-film-central-park-jogger-rape-89-central-park-five/
Angry People In Local Newspapers – “Celebrating excellence in the field of local newspaper photography” by showcasing photos of people looking a bit annoyed. Bonus link: sister-site Dull News In Local Newspapers, featuring important happenings such as “Car Slightly Damaged” and “Swans In Road”.
via MetaFilter http://www.metafilter.com/120516/hugely-skilled-and-poorly-paid-and-sent-out-to-photograph-miserable-people-pointing-at-dog-turds