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Tell Me Again about Google's new Social Features...

Yes, Anonymous has a profile.

The key to making programs fast is to make them do practically nothing

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Why GNU grep is fast.

One of Jezebel's most significant areas of interest is the Photoshopping of women who appear in magazines, catalogs, or in any other publication. It's an important factor that shapes the beauty standard, and it affects how women view themselves, for better or worse. As such, the peg of the post is how Jennifer Aniston looks pre-Photoshop, and I think you can agree that a small image falls under fair use since the existence of these images is indeed news. It's the peg of the item.

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From "This Is How Your Jen Aniston Sausage Gets Made." I love when Gawker gets sued (or sues people.)

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Jude Killory's blog

I have a wacom tablet now and here is my first official digital sketch on it-Good ol' Spiderman.

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Vin Scully & Troy Tulowitzki's Mullet

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Vin Scully trying to figure out a mullet. There's nothing more to say.

The Secret Kanye West Show at The Box Last

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There were a few very minor missteps on the night. First was the fact that Mos Def was in the building, but not near the stage when their collaboration 'Two Words' was being performed, and so Kanye was looking around for the rapper to no avail. Next was the fact that the drink of choice, at least by the Rosewood Movement, was the creatively named "Rosewood." It is: sauvignon blanc, cranberry juice and a simple syrup. You can guess how that tasted.

The dress code was pretty heavily enforced, but the only men who seemed to enter sans suit were David Beckham and his hanger-on buddy. Pulling the "It's not really that cold and other people are actually sweating but I'm still going to wear a beanie" move, he was perched up in one of the upper booths with no Victoria Beckham in sight, though he did have some cute-ish British girls with him. To his credit nothing particularly salacious was happening with their party—and the background on his new Blackberry Torch was a picture of his family.

Here's the real story. Foursquare founder Dens was there, and if you read the Awl post it sounds like he wasn't invited, but met Kanye nonetheless. Did he use Foursquare to know the show was happening in the first place? What if Foursquare is just an elaborate ruse to make sure Dens & friends never miss a hot event, promoted or no, ever again?

The True Story of Automoblox

Many of us can recall the pride we felt the first time we spotted a product that we had a hand in designing sitting on a store shelf. And this pride turns to absolute nirvana when that product is your product—something that you’ve brought to market completely born of your vision and manufactured by your own company.

The story I’m about to share with you chronicles my journey with Automoblox®, a product that started out as a school project and ultimately turned into a full-time obsession. My road to nirvana was a dark and bumpy one, fraught with emotions that ranged from exhaustion and panic to frustration and rage. But the day I delivered the first order for Automblox to a small toy store in Darien, Connecticut was a day that rivals only the day that my daughter was born.

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Automoblox's founder journals his and his company's evolution from 1993 - 2004. He dealt with cynical buyers, distribution headaches, shoddy workmanship, and working with partners who couldn't meet his standards. The story ends in the beginning of 2005 with some optimism that turns out to be well deserved, as Automoblox has become a huge success

The Selby and the PAPERMAG Present...

You can tell a lot about someone's personality by looking at how they live -- something photographer Todd Selby has been capturing brilliantly for years through his candid portraits of creative types in their natural habitats. We're thrilled to present our new collaboration with the photographer right here on PAPERMAG. We'll be sending the Selby to shoot portraits of the most interesting, talented and aesthetic people we know in their homes. The Selby will be releasing these photos in coming weeks on theselby.com, but a sneak peek will first be launched exclusively on PAPERMAG.

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George Lois is the first subject in a fantastic new collaboration between Selby and Paper.

Making GitHub More Open: Git-backed Wikis

We've been hearing a lot of great feedback regarding our current wiki system. Today, we're launching the first phase in a rollout of a completely rewritten Git-backed wiki system to address these issues. Each page is a file in a directory. Each change is a commit.

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