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Milonakis isn't just bashing celebrity tweeters and their tendency to overshare facts about themselves on the assumption that because they're famous, people care that their car needs an oil change. (Cause we don't! Okay, maybe we do.) In fact, Milonakis doesn't even hate Twitter; he actually uses Twitter. He "tweets" about food, hanging out at parties, and now that his song has become popular, he is tweeting about "Let Me Twitter Dat." The tune's got an insanely catchy Soulja Boy/Unk thing going on, but at the end of the day, Andy Milonakis is still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ayy, Let Me Twitter Dat | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

Given the circumstances (Tijuana's 843 murders last year doubled 2007's), it takes moxie to launch such a campaign. Number one on the list: "Take a picture with the famous Tijuana zebra donkey." Number 75: Get out of town by "Flying direct to Narita, Japan, from Tijuana Airport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baja, Land of Drug Wars, Tries to Draw Tourists | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...final months of 2008 to just five in March. The gangs are lying low for now, and the city's 1.5 million people are venturing back out to the streets. Waiters at the ornate Kentucky Club are thrilled to see visitors walk in again for the bar's famous Rio Grande margaritas. (See pictures of the fence between the United States and Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Bloody Border: Mexico's Drug Wars | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

History's most famous suicide happened more than 2,000 years ago: rather than surrender to the Romans who had captured her Egypt, the lovelorn Queen Cleopatra succumbed to the venomous bite of an asp. Ancient historians chronicled the act, Shakespeare dramatized it, and HBO even added its own to spin to the tragedy with the lavish TV series "Rome." Yet while we may know how Cleopatra died of snake poison, after her consort Mark Antony fell on his sword, archaeologists have yet to pin down where the legendary couple was laid to rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tomb of Antony and Cleopatra? | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...Chanel and Tati aren't the first historical figures with (in)famous smoking addictions to have their cigarettes posthumously confiscated. In 1996, for example, France's postal service issued a stamp of French culture and political icon André Malraux using a well-known photo of him - though only after the smoldering butt visible in his hand in the original had been removed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Paris Métro, Even Dead Legends Can't Smoke | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

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