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I think I’m going to start a semi-regular feature here at Yellow is the Color.  Every time I watch an incredibly embarrassing YouTube video that makes me laugh and ashamed to be a human being, I’ll post it here as a part of the newly established Put the Video Camera Down! [...]

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While I’m as prone to lamenting Paris Hilton stories on CNN as much as the next gal, there’s something kind of hilarious in people’s pearl-clutching over the vapidity of

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What is possibly possessing so many people to search for “catbook facebook” today? Seriously, like 30 people have visited this blog today under those terms. Why?
[By the by, is this not the greatest picture you have ever seen? (thank you google images)]

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So the House passed a bill yesterday countering the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., a gender/pay discrimination case involving a female employee, Lilly Ledbetter, who found out after 19 years of employment with Goodyear that she was being paid much less for her efforts than her male [...]

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Count Gottfried von Bismarck, who was found dead on Monday aged 44, was a louche German aristocrat with a multi-faceted history as a pleasure-seeking heroin addict, hell-raising alcoholic, flamboyant waster and a reckless and extravagant host of homosexual orgies.
(Via Matt Zeitlin)

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A (rather large) break from blogging about the 21st Century …
I’m researching first ladies this week at work. If I were going to, you know, travel back in time somehow and be friends with any of them, Dolley Madison is totally my first pick. She was the Lindsay Lohan of the early 1800s. She [...]

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Wow, this is creepy: Tiny Pocket People makes mini-dolls with your loved one’s (or stalkee’s, I suppose) face. Tiny Pocket People? Couldn’t they at least have come up with a less totally-frightening name?

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I know it’s really tedious to tell people about funny terms that people searched to get to your blog and all that, but I found this one particularly funny. Maybe only ’cause it’s 8 in the morning and I just woke up, but: “pirates in the bible.”
I am really excited to know that somehow [...]

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links for 2007-01-31

Goodnight, Sweet Prince – Deadspin
Barbaro is dead. Millions of cats are hungry today. You simply must read the comments to this article.

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links for 2007-01-20

Universal and Sony prohibit Zune sharing for certain songs
When Microsoft rolled out the term “squirting” for wifi sharing between Zunes, I started calling it the Dirty Sanchez. Now, it looks like it’s not even that. It’s a constipated Dirty Sanchez. The metaphor could continue, but I think you’ve got the idea.

Violent Acres
(tags: blogging humor rant [...]

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In doing some lexis-nexis research on a completely unrelated topic, I came across this November op-ed from Bill Mayer in the Boston Globe, “A re-look-see at the Constitution.” Maybe I just like any mention of pirates, but I found it pretty damn funny:
There’s no out-of-the-box thinking in this country. If we were really looking [...]

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links for 2007-01-04

Flirting | Don’t misunderestimate yourself | Economist.com
Women, apparently you won’t talk to me because you’re put off by my god-like sex appeal. It’s okay. I get that a lot. But if you won’t talk to me I’ll never get to leave you.
(tags: psychology science relationships dating sex evolution)

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