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YourTango.com, a self-described "community for love, sex, dating and relationship advice," has created an instructional video called "Facebook Manners and You." Styled after one of those frighteningly cheery '50s educational films, the video's instructions for proper behavior on the "electric friendship generator" is funny in a hits-close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Not to Be Hated on Facebook: 10 More Rules | 4/21/2009 | See Source »

GM is becoming so desperate that it may offer a program to exchange its $28 billion in unsecured debt for equity in the company. The bondholders would not get a penny under the plan being proposed. The GM shares they would receive may be worthless in a year if the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle for What's Left of GM Gets Meaner | 4/17/2009 | See Source »

It's surprising how easily Austen's novel succumbs to the conventions of a zombie flick. Much of Austen's work is about using wit and charm and good manners to avoid talking about ugly realities like sex and money. In Grahame-Smith's version, zombies are just another one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zombies Are the New Vampires | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

I'm starting to see the logic. So much of Austen is about the unmentionable - about using wit and good manners to cover up nasty things like sex and money. So why not have one of those unmentionable things be zombies? That was what was so funny to me about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pride and Prejudice, Now with Zombies! | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

You can imagine the sour state we received Mrs. Lewis in when she came bobbing down the steps of the church screaming, “Happy Easter, Mr. Moore! And Winnie! Our Savior is risen!”“He sure is,” Daddy said. He...

Author: By Nathan D. Johnson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Featured Fiction Part Two | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

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