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Actual Things That Came Out of Human Mouths at Day One of TechCrunch’s Disrupt SF Conference

“Swimming in the social stream.”

“Crowdsourcing app discovery-platform.”

“Can you talk about getting conceptual liftoff?”

“What’s your current go-to-market strategy?”

“Now, let’s talk about disrupting the disruptors.”

“We’re iterating our butts off, dude.”

“Looks like it’s searching for a use case.”

“We’re all about glocal right now.”

“Collaborative consumption is truly a revolution.”

“Plat-Ag.” (As in “Platform-Agnostic.”)

“You did one of the great pivots of all-time.”

“We don’t measure our success by financial results.”

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Apple’s iPhone 5 Seen Selling 10 Million Within Weeks


Apple’s debut of its redesigned iPhone will again test its high-stakes strategy of once-a-year upgrades for a product that accounts for about 70% of the company’s profits.


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Ad Overdose

Seth Stevenson subjected himself to 45 hours of Ohio TV advertising, which at this point largely consists of campaign ads:

Something happens when you’ve been exposed to the same short video clip 21 times; your mind untethers, shifting its focus from the script to the symbols. I began to dissect Romney’s body language. Why, I wondered, was this spot so intent on establishing a side-by-side spatial relationship between Mitt and the viewer? Mitt chauffeurs us, gripping the wheel, looking at the road, throwing sidelong glances as he lists his accomplishments. “Aha,” I exclaimed: a classically male, shoulder-to-shoulder, barstool conversational alignment—in tune with Romney’s big advantage among male voters. By contrast, President Obama is usually gazing directly into the camera lens, locking in eye contact as though he and the viewer are on a promising first date.

Relatedly, a reader in Colorado reacts to Romney’s big post-convention ad buy:

As a resident of Denver, I’ve been experiencing the avalanche for many months. It’s worst from 4-6 during local news and national network news, when we routinely get 4, 5, 6 back-to-back ads at every commercial break. One or two will be from Obama, with the rest from Romney and his super-PACs. Like many others here, I jut hit the mute button when they start. I hear friends joke that they now watch everything via DVR, so they can fast-forward through the commercials.

I loathe and fear Citizens United as much as anybody, but I do believe there is a law of diminishing returns with the onslaught of ads.

I lived in California in 2010 when a flood of outside money and money from wealthy candidates blanketed TV for months supporting the Republican statewide candidates, especially Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina. It was as relentless as the Romney avalanche is now. Yet the Democrats won every statewide office, largely, I believe, because the Republican “brand” is so toxic in California.

The Obama campaign has blanketed Colorado with field offices and young, energetic organizers who are busy canvassing, registering voters and getting the word out with friends and neighbors. My only complaint is that they stopped airing a very effective response to the welfare-work lies, and I hope that ad reappears soon. The election will be close, but I’m confident Colorado will stay blue this fall.

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Rob Lowe Tells the Origin of ‘Literally,’ His Parks and Rec Catchphrase

The way Rob Lowe pronounces the word “literally” on Parks and Recreation is nothing short of magic. It’s not like when people say nuke-u-ler when they mean nuclear; that just makes us stabby. When Chris Traeger says LIT-ruh-lee, it takes on great importance, underscoring just how excited he is about literally everything. (“Every time I cleanse, I can literally feel the toxins leaving my body!”) So how did this signature word come to pass? We cornered Lowe during a recent visit to the Parks and Rec set to demand his origin story.

“I think I just leaned into that word really hard a couple of times and it made [showrunner Mike Schur] laugh,” said Lowe. “The next thing you know it just became one of Chris’s things, but it was never designed that way. It was merely a word in a sentence. I think I just took a really big, probably very embarrassing swing at it and it stuck.” And did he know specifically what he had done differently? That, in fact, he was ignoring the “e” entirely? “It’s funny, I have no idea what I’m doing when I’m doing it … But it’s very exciting to be so far down the road in this business and to finally have a catchphrase. It’s one thing I can tick off my career to-do list. I don’t think it’s as good as ‘What’chu talkin’ ’bout, Willis,’ but it’s up there.” Lowe knows it’s made it into the lexicon because people won’t stop saying it to him. “They point at me and they say their full name. They say ‘Literally!’ They say ‘Ann Perkins!’” he said. “I dropped my son off at college back East this week and every person that came up to me, they didn’t want to talk about The West Wing or Austin Powers or Tommy Boy. Every single one wanted to talk about Chris Traeger. I figured out who’s watching Parks and they’re all in college. We own the campus.”

Of course he’s become a bit sensitive about using the word when he’s not in character. “I find myself going, ‘I’m telling you, that guy is li— … absolutely the worst person I’ve ever seen.’ I’ve tried to banish it from my personal vocabulary for a while,” he says. It seems to require some real effort. When we asked about his new Lifetime movie, this one about Casey Anthony, Lowe said: “It’s not what you expect. It is lit— … did you see what I did there? Did you? I’ve developed a mid-life stutter!”

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The Velvet Underground Loses Banana Lawsuit To The Warhol Foundation

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A while ago, members of the Velvet Underground filed a lawsuit against the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for using their iconic album cover’s Warhol banana on schwag, among other complaints. They were particularly unsettled by the extensive licensing the foundation had planned for a series of Apple accessories. A federal judge has just dismissed the banana bit of the lawsuit, but the lawsuit goes on.

Sure, the ripe yellow fruit “became a symbol, truly an icon, of the Velvet Underground” for generations of fans and revivalists, but the Velvet Underground never officially copyrighted the banana. Neither did Andy Warhol. It was up for grabs. The Foundation, in turn, never sued the Velvet Underground for their peddling of the banana, but now our well-aged cultural heroes will have to live with their fruit garlanding iPhones and iPads.

So… really. Whose banana? Who’s more famous? Who will Nico come to avenge-haunt these days?

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Bill Murray on Playing F.D.R. in Hyde Park on Hudson and His Disappointment Over Losing the Oscar

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Nipples on New Yorker Cartoon Prompt a Facebook Ban

 About 83.4 percent of the time, The New Yorker’s cartoons aren’t funny. Yet despite that, it’s difficult to find something wrong with them, because they’re odd and vaguely interesting. Facebook, however, has little trouble picking something upsetting about New Yorker cartoons: Nipples. The New Yorker’s cartoon page on Facebook was temporarily banned from the site because a cartoon featuring tiny nipple’s on a woman’s body violated Facebook’s community standards.

As The New Yorker notes, it wasn’t the man’s nipples that got it banned; male nipples, according to Facebook, are fine. Something called “female nipple bulges” and female nipples, are not.

Please take this into consideration the next time you’re posting pictures from a party. If The New Yorker can get banned for cartoon nipples, anything can happen.

[Image via Mick Stevens/The New Yorker]

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NBC’s ‘Today’ Skips 9/11 Moment Of Silence For Kardashian Interview

At 8:46 AM, in New York City and at the White House in Washington DC, there was a moment of silence to remember when the first plane hit the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. In New York, the NYPD, FDNY, Port Authority Police and the families of the victims were present, while in Washington the President and the First Lady led the moment.

The cable networks all carried it, with ABC’s “Good Morning America” and “CBS This Morning” carrying it as well. The only national general news program to not carry the moment of silence was NBC’s ‘Today,” which, in an odd bit of counter-programming, opted to air an interview with “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” star Kris Jenner, who talked about the new season of the reality show, and her breast implants.

After the moment of silence ended, ABC went right to an interview with actor Richad Gere, while CBS went straight into a commercial break.

Here in New York, NBC did show the moment of silence, as WNBC broke into “Today” to carry locally-produced special coverage.

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jaredbkeller September 11, 2012 at 11:41AM

@jaredbkeller: GoDaddy statement on yesterday’s outage: “It was not a ‘hack’
and it was not a denial of service attack (DDoS).” – @BloombergNews

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davidaxelrod September 11, 2012 at 11:24AM

@davidaxelrod: Yowza! Adelson bets big on Romney, and under Mitt’s tax scheme, the casino mogul would walk off with a $2 billion pot.
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