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    • 23 Ratings
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    Would You "De-Friend" Your Friend's Kid On FB?

    JULY 6, 2011 8:42PM

    By Christina Simon


    Topics: facebook, kids, parenting, family, technology, social media

    • Editor's Pick
    • 7 Ratings
    • 4931 Views
    • 51 Comments
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    Nobody Rides for Free: The True Cost of Social Media

    MAY 24, 2011 9:47AM

    By Beth Ingalls


    Topics: technology, business, economy

    • Editor's Pick
    • 4 Ratings
    • 580 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    Filamentia

    MAY 20, 2011 3:41AM

    By fauxScot_


    Topics: open+call, reminiscence, nostalgia, technology

    • Editor's Pick
    • 5 Ratings
    • 1269 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    North Pool Meltdown: Santa Plans Move to Hong Kong

    MAY 17, 2011 1:50AM

    By Daniel Rigney


    Topics: commercialization of christmas, santa claus, mrs. claus, business satire, business parody, satire, parody, child labor, human rights law, corporate conservatives, executive christmas bonuses, intimate, salacious, tabloid television, tabloid media, inquiring minds, congratulations matthew and beloit grads!, christie claus, north pole, north pool, north pool meltdown, hong kong, china labor market, toy industry, toy workers, toy sector, unions, santa icon, santa meme, climate change, global warming, reindeer, reinbot, santa's elves, elf taverns, open call, danagram, daniel rigney, belief/religion, comedy, economy, business, fiction, gossip, science, technology, television, travel, xmasinc. xmas, xmas inc.

    • Editor's Pick
    • 16 Ratings
    • 1608 Views
    • 24 Comments
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    Selling Personal Items Belonging to Ted Kaczynski, Unabomber

    MAY 16, 2011 10:45AM

    By Catherine Forsythe


    Topics: internet, unabomber, ted kaczynski, auction, personal possession, technology

    • Editor's Pick
    • 22 Ratings
    • 1196 Views
    • 28 Comments
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    Piracy on the low seas

    MAY 6, 2011 4:03PM

    By designanator


    Topics: yachts, technology, internet, cartoon stuff, salon cartoon saturday, humor, piracy

    • Editor's Pick
    • 15 Ratings
    • 1058 Views
    • 19 Comments
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    Five Days in 1978.

    APRIL 29, 2011 9:51AM

    By Reflections of a shallow pond


    Topics: open call, technology, kids, daughter, dad, 1978

    • Editor's Pick
    • 13 Ratings
    • 1115 Views
    • 20 Comments
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    The Last Typewriter Factory in the World Has Closed Shop

    APRIL 27, 2011 8:48AM

    By Duane Gundrum


    Topics: news, industrialization, writing, books, word processor, computer, technology, typewriter

    • Editor's Pick
    • 4 Ratings
    • 1029 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    Multitasking: Method of the future or just plain madness?

    APRIL 25, 2011 11:52AM

    By Quinlan Mitchell


    Topics: npr, pancakes, iphone, technology, knitting, x-men

    • Editor's Pick
    • 12 Ratings
    • 2153 Views
    • 29 Comments
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    Middle Schoolers' Letter to Earth for Earth Day

    APRIL 22, 2011 4:32PM

    By Joseph Carr


    Topics: technology, science, politics, news, health, environment, belief/religion, planet, earth, oregon, tweens, teens, kids, pollution, future, expert opinion, culture, youth, activism, pollution, education, earth day

    • Editor's Pick
    • 10 Ratings
    • 1958 Views
    • 7 Comments
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    Facebook Saved my Birthday

    APRIL 19, 2011 11:35PM

    By Kate Geiselman


    Topics: midlife, technology, social media, nostalgia, aging, birthdays, facebook, open call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 5 Ratings
    • 4076 Views
    • 19 Comments
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    Yuri Gagarin

    APRIL 12, 2011 1:10PM

    By AOG


    Topics: space travel, travel, technology, science, fiction, belief/religion, yuri gagarin, gagarin, futurist, the future, future, space race, soviet union, russia, cccp

    • Editor's Pick
    • 6 Ratings
    • 1742 Views
    • 11 Comments
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    Sextants and Cell Phones

    APRIL 6, 2011 8:20AM

    By Rebecca Morean


    Topics: real families, cell phones, teens, children, technology, parenting, communication, family

    • Editor's Pick
    • 6 Ratings
    • 1452 Views
    • 11 Comments
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    Is Mercury Hiding Water Ice?

    MARCH 30, 2011 2:47PM

    By J. P. Major


    Topics: science, technology, editor's pick

    • Editor's Pick
    • 11 Ratings
    • 1921 Views
    • 15 Comments
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    Marrying Walter Cronkite

    MARCH 28, 2011 7:39AM

    By Rebecca Morean


    Topics: books, family, news, politics, television, technology, walter cronkite, media

    • Editor's Pick
    • 9 Ratings
    • 1319 Views
    • 15 Comments
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    Twitter: The technology everyone uses but so many hate

    MARCH 22, 2011 9:10AM

    By Duane Gundrum


    Topics: news, science, writer, writing, revolution, egypt, facebook, internet, business, social networking, technology, twitter

    • Editor's Pick
    • 14 Ratings
    • 1090 Views
    • 20 Comments
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    Newspapers--Don't Go!

    MARCH 21, 2011 7:58AM

    By Frank Michels


    Topics: business, economy, technology, newspapers, gannett, pop tarts, the tennessean

    • Editor's Pick
    • 2 Ratings
    • 1896 Views
    • 11 Comments
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    Should Obama abandon Nuclear Energy Policy?

    MARCH 17, 2011 11:13AM

    By Jaime Franchi


    Topics: economy, environment, technology, politics, open call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 15 Ratings
    • 1772 Views
    • 28 Comments
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    What If Japan Were The U.S.?

    MARCH 16, 2011 4:37PM

    By Paul Nevins


    Topics: business, belief/religion, economy, environment, health, politics, technology, news

    • Editor's Pick
    • 3 Ratings
    • 1119 Views
    • 7 Comments
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    Country Radio Talks--But is Anyone Listening?

    MARCH 7, 2011 7:20AM

    By Frank Michels


    Topics: radio, country music, pandora, technology, nashville

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