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Inside the Vamp-artment of Twilight's Edward Cullen, Buy It for $3.3M!

Must every facet of Twilight's sparkly-skinned lead vampire Edward be irresistible? He may be a blood chugger, but his interior design sense doesn't suck. The character's (played by Robert Pattinson) digs are featured prominently in ...READ»

7-Eleven House Wine Taste Test: My Mom Takes a Spin Down Yosemite Road
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7-Eleven House Wine Taste Test: My Mom Takes a Spin Down Yosemite Road

I don't know about the chardonnay, but if Yosemite Road Cabernet, 7-Eleven's house brand, were a song, it'd be "Red, Red Wine." Not Neil Diamond's original. Or even Tony Tribe's excellent rocksteady version. It'd be the UB40 cover, ...READ»

BlueBeat’s Hank Risan: That’s Not the Beatles, It’s a ‘Virtual Cover Band’
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BlueBeat's Hank Risan: That's Not the Beatles, It's a "Virtual Cover Band"

If you thought that was AC/DC, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and The Beatles you streamed for free or downloaded this week for $.25 from BlueBeat.com, it's an understandable error. The music sounded identical to songs by those artists. ...READ»

'30 Rock' Ends Product Placement Specultion, Writes Cisco into Last Night's Episode

'30 Rock' Ends Product Placement Speculation, Writes Cisco Into Last Night's Episode

Cisco got one hell of a pitch man in Jack Donaghy. Last night's 30 Rock wasn't just notable for the its usual cavalcade of shenanigans, or even the NBC in-house fun-poking (Brian Williams as a stand-up comic? Jack saying something ...READ»

Beatles Label EMI Slap former Huffington Post Blogger, BlueBeat Owner with Federal Lawsuit
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Beatles Label EMI Slaps Former Huffington Post Blogger, BlueBeat Owner With Federal Lawsuit

Get your Beatles downloads from BlueBeat.com while they're hot--as in stolen, according to a federal copyright infringement lawsuit filed against the site and its owner by EMI records, which distributes the Beatles music, in Los ...READ»

Weezer Snuggie: Greatest Rock 'N' Roll Marketing Since the ELO Hockey Puck

Weezer Snuggie: Greatest Rock 'N' Roll Marketing Since the ELO Hockey Puck

For $30, the blue Weezer Snuggie--$50 for the "Snuggie Safari"--comes with a copy of the band's new album, "Raditude."READ»

BlueBeat Defiantly Selling Beatles, AC/DC, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin Right Now for Cheap
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BlueBeat Defiantly Selling Beatles, AC/DC, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin Right Now for Cheap

Download site BlueBeat seems to have looked squarely in the eye of litigious record label legal eagles and various judges who've sided with them--then figuratively dropped trou and shot 'em a moon.READ»

Google Trike View: Innovative or Three-Wheeled Privacy Invasion?
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Google Trike View: Innovation or Three-Wheeled Privacy Invasion?

Haters of Google Street View could always go off-road and take relative solace in the belief that they’d disappeared between the Google Map grid lines. Until Now. READ»

What Does 'Splatter' Mean for the Future of Netflix?
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What 'Splatter' Means for the Future of Netflix

We learned yesterday that Netflix is partnering with legendary low-budget filmmaker Roger Corman to produce online miniseries Splatter. And viewers get to vote on which characters live or die on the episodes, which premiere Oct. ...READ»

Rap Maps: Plotting Jay-Z's 'Empire State of Mind' on Google

Rap Maps: Plotting Jay-Z's 'Empire State of Mind' on Google

Follow the path of Jay-Z, as outlined in his song "Empire State of Mind."READ»

Paranormal Activity Tears a Page from the Blair Witch Playbook
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Paranormal Activity Tears a Page From the Blair Witch Playbook

Before the producers of the ultra-low-budget pants-wetter Paranormal Activity launched a Web campaign asking moviegoers to demand to see the film in their towns, they communed with the producers of the mother of all virally marketed ...READ»

Fast Feed: @TracyMorgan?
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Fast Feed: @TracyMorgan?

Twitter's good. It'd be great if Tracy Morgan, who already speaks in Tweets, joined. Twacy.org founder Hugh Dornbush wants to petition the 30 Rock star to do just that. He's also using the hilarious concept to virally promote his mobile celebrity stalking app, omgicu. Here's Hugh...READ»

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Will Fans Pay Public Enemy to Make a New Album or Just Buy Old Hits on CD?

Rap Group Public Enemy is upending the major-label record deal routine by asking fans to finance its new album through Dutch company SellaBand. Meanwhile, Def Jam is re-releasing five discs worth of classic hits from P.E. and others in a plastic milk crate.READ»

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MP3s Drive the Music Biz Into Multiple Personality Spin

Ah, the music biz--source of fun for the masses, and craziness for businesspeople. We all know about the first part of that, but the second bit's been highlighted by some odd news this week, hinging on MP3s. The American Society of ...READ»

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Brand Yourself and 4 Other Tips for Success From The Sartorialist

Scott Schuman is The Sartorialist, a fashion blogger with a lot more up his tailored coat sleeves than street shots of pretty people. This August, he released a compilation book of his photos aptly titled, "The Sartorialist." In honor of Fashion Week, we share with you his nuggets of wisdom and a few peeks at his book.READ»

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Recession: High price vacations reverberate Travel One International products and services be in demand

There were many people whom cancelled their vacations  for many reasons. The economy, layoffs  as well as unemployment increase. Though, many of them agree that going vacations is expensive, specially in downturn ...READ»

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Yahoo Still Working on Search--What About Bing?

There we were just thinking Microsoft had sewn-up Yahoo's search-engine powers by licensing Bing to it, and now it looks like Yahoo's still polishing its search powers all on its own anyway. What the heck is going on? Complex, ...READ»

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Seven Signs of Our Times Online

This isn't your usual August. With enough political issues smoldering to fill a decade of American history, the vacation month has turned into a morass of issues that boggles the mind. Here are seven articles that went viral this ...READ»

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Fancy Doing a Startup? YCombinator Has a Business Plan for You

The venture capital scene is going a bit topsy turvy at the moment, but now YCombinator, which provides seed funding for startups, is turning the whole concept of funding on its head: They are giving out ideas and looking for ...READ»

Free Personal Finance Software

Given the current state of the global economy, now is probably a great time for you to consider organizing your household budget and maybe even your investments with some personal finance management software.READ»

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100th Anniversary of First Lincoln Penny

The first U.S. penny -- pure copper and featuring a woman with flowing hair -- was minted in 1792. But it wasn't until 1909, a century after Lincoln's birth, that the 16th prez's image made it to the coin. Now, to mark Honest ...READ»

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Why Overhead Isn’t Evil in the Non-Profit World

Overhead is seen as the devil of the not-for-profit world. Here's why that conventional wisdom is wrong.READ»

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What's IBM's $100 Million Cell Phone Investment For?

IBM's just announced that it's pulled together $100 million to invest in future cell phone tech. It will be used to improve things like cell-phone security, user interface functionality, and business use of cell phones. But, when ...READ»

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Discover How to Beat Full Rates on Vacations

Summer is coming, so high season vacations time as well. Despite the inconveniences we are facing on you would notice the people are traveling. Just take a look at airports, cruises and recreational parks as Disney World. May be you ...READ»

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Nine Trillion Dollars in Debt

Making sense of that giant number, if there is sense to be made.READ»

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