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Posted via email from The players are locked out. The fans are depressed. And now the N.B.A. stalemate has claimed a whole new class of victims: New York’s bar owners , who say they’re losing as much as a 1/3 of their revenue because sports fans and tourists aren’t showing up to watch games. They said bar receipts in the ... - aleksandra marcotte from Posterous

Posted via email from Legendary Israeli-American psychologist Daniel Kahneman is one of the most influential thinkers of our time. A Nobel laureate and founding father of modern behavioral economics, his work has shaped how we think about human error, risk, judgement, decision-making, happiness, and more. [This] month is ... - aleksandra marcotte from Posterous

Posted via email from Andrew Weil's Spontaneous Happiness: Our Nature-Deficit Disorder There is abundant evidence that depression is a “disease of affluence,” a disorder of modern life in the industrialized world . People who live in poorer countries have a lower risk of depression than those in industrialized nations. S ... - aleksandra marcotte from Posterous

Posted via email from On the misuse of apostrophe's (did your eye just twitch?) and our increasingly rhetorical language   Punctuation arouses strong feelings.  People fuss about punctuation not only because it clarifies meaning but also because its neglect appears to reflect wider social decline. And while the big socia ... - aleksandra marcotte from Posterous

Posted via email from For every hour that American teens listen to music, they hear more than three references to brand-name alcohol -- about 34 in the course of day. Researchers point the finger clearly at rap, R&B and hip-hop artists, who they say promote a"luxury lifestyle characterized by degrading sexual activity, w ... - aleksandra marcotte from Posterous

Posted via email from If you liked our ten year recap, you'll love this. Each pie shows the revenue contribution from various formats, 1980-2010, based on RIAA revenue figures.  If you want to see it again, just wait a few seconds for the animation to start over.                           This is US-based data, and each ... - aleksandra marcotte from Posterous

Posted via email from "Retweet", "sexting" and "cyberbullying" are officially words, according to the latest edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary. via telegraph.co.uk Other new words in the centenary anniversary of the dictionary are "woot" (used in electronic communication to express elation, enthusiasm, or ... - aleksandra marcotte from Posterous

Posted via email from via moneyland.time.com "The national average payoff for a child’s tooth placed under a pillow is somewhere between $2.50 and $2.60. Does that mean the market value for pint-size incisors and canines is on the rise? Or that the Tooth Fairy is becoming Grinch-like? It’s debatable. A new survey from Vi ... - aleksandra marcotte from Posterous

Posted via email from Before they stop being polite and start getting real, prospective roommates on MTV's reality show must sign a detailed and humiliating 30-page contract. The cast of "The Real World" Las Vegas that ended in June 2011: To get on the show, they had to sign contracts acknowledging that they may well suf ... - aleksandra marcotte from Posterous

Posted via email from via eatocracy.cnn.com "On a midsummer Thursday night, there’s a reservation in a New York City restaurant’s book for an Enrico Pallazzo. Only a pop culture junkie might suspect that something was afoot. Enrico Pallazzo is the opera singer in the Leslie Nielsen cult classic “Naked Gun” – and the man ... - aleksandra marcotte from Posterous

Posted via email from "The infographic below shows the number of users on each network, and what portion of those users overlap with the huge mobile “sun.” For instance, Facebook has 500 million active users, with roughly one-third of them accessing their accounts via mobile devices. Services like Foursquare, Gowalla, an ... - aleksandra marcotte from Posterous

Posted via email from via thefastertimes.com The news of Amy Winehouse’s death on Saturday no doubt triggered a range of emotions: Misery and grief among her family and relatives and sorrow and shock (although many will have anticipated it) for her fans. But, sadly, for some organisations who thrive off the Winehouse bra ... - aleksandra marcotte from Posterous

Posted via email from "A day after President Obama hosted the first-ever Twitter town hall, New York City showed off its social media prowess with the launch of a new website that will collect ideas to improve the city. Change by Us NYC will allow New Yorkers to share their suggestions online with government officials an ... - aleksandra marcotte from Posterous

Posted via email from via psfk.com The Joker, Superman, Santa Claus, Robin and Ronald McDonald were all part of the latest public statue transformation in Bulgaria. Located in Sofia’s town square, the Red Army soldier statues are just one of numerous, long-running ‘attacks’ on the monuments dedicated to the former Soviet ... - aleksandra marcotte from Posterous

Posted via email from via psfk.com Virgin America is taking their hashtag #nerdbird to the skies by naming their 39th aircraft amidst their increasing fleet with this whimsical name. Using Facebook and Twitter to alert their audience to this new change, they’ve found a guarenteed way to increase followers and updates via ... - aleksandra marcotte from Posterous

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Posted via email from "Ever posted a not-so-flattering picture to Instagram during a drunken evening on the town? Or fired off a passive aggressive tweet directed at a former lover? Or maybe accidentally typed a crush’s name into what you thought was Facebook’s search bar and alerted the world that “Larry Finkelstein” is ... - aleksandra marcotte from Posterous

Posted via email from via bits.blogs.nytimes.com Facebook automatically turned on facial recognition for its users but it can be disabled in the privacy settings on the Web site. " Facebook is pushing the privacy line once again, according to a new report from a security and antivirus company. According to the report, fr ... - aleksandra marcotte from Posterous

Posted via email from via mashable.com Television and radio personalities in France can no longer say “Twitter” or “Facebook” on the air unless it’s in a news story about those specific companies, according to a decree from the French broadcasting authority CSA. In other words, French broadcasters who want to encourage v ... - aleksandra marcotte from Posterous

Posted via email from "They swarmed the beach, taking control of prime holiday sand and surf like a group of marauding spring breakers. Then, just like that, they vanished, leaving behind the damage: spoiled vacations, red welts, heaps of annoyance, discarded containers of vinegar and Benadryl and a crew of exhausted lif ... - aleksandra marcotte from Posterous

Posted via email from "These days, the Army is getting social — if not quite that sociable — as potential recruits increasingly spend time with social media like Facebook, Flickr, Twitter and YouTube. The next phase of the Army’s current recruitment ad campaign “Army Strong,” that was introduced on television in 2006...[ ... - aleksandra marcotte from Posterous

Posted via email from via mashable.com "The Hipstamatic app for iPhone has been one of the most influential photography apps launched for the mobile platform. The app generates quirky results by emulating toy and vintage cameras with a variety of lenses, filters and flashes. [Mashable] hooked up with Hipstamatic to bring ... - aleksandra marcotte from Posterous

Posted via email from via topics.blogs.nytimes.com Notes from the newsroom on grammar, usage and style. (Some frequently asked questions are here.) I’ve discussed before the problem of misplaced phrases, which can be awkward, confusing or even misleading. In two recent cases, a carelessly placed phrase or clause really w ... - aleksandra marcotte from Posterous

Posted via email from Scientists have studied logs of online sex-related searches to figure out what people really want.(The theory is that people don't bother to lie to search engines: They just search for what they actually want.) According to the new book "A Billion Wicked Thoughts," by Ogas and Gaddam, as summarized ... - aleksandra marcotte from Posterous

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Posted via email from     Researchers are harvesting a wealth of intimate detail from our cellphone data, uncovering the hidden patterns of our social lives, travels, risk of disease—even our political views.     "We have always thought of individuals as being unpredictable," said Johan Bollen, an expert in complex netwo ... - aleksandra marcotte from Posterous

Posted via email from "This is heartening for the frustrated traveler, less so for the already cash-strapped U.S. airline carriers. The Department of Transportation has announced new regulations that require airlines who lose your baggage to refund you for the (usually pricey) fee that was paid to check luggage. So if an ... - aleksandra marcotte from Posterous

Posted via email from via newseum.org "When the worst earthquake in Japan's history and the subsequent tsunami knocked out all power in the city of Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture, editors at the Ishinomaki Hibi Shimbun, the city's daily newspaper, printed news of the disaster the only way they could: by pen and paper. F ... - aleksandra marcotte from Posterous