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...it’s no secret that Facebook’s real motive, and for many months its overriding concern, is keeping up with Twitter. Although Facebook has 200 million users to Twitter’s 25 million (that doesn’t include all the new registrations that undoubtedly resulted in June following the Iranian elections), the consensus is that the future of social networking lies in microblogging: short up-to-the-second messages broadcast to your friends and followers. The key part of this equation—and what equipped Twitter to be such a powerful means...

Author: By Clay A. Dumas | Title: The Internet Has Added You as a Friend | 7/8/2009 | See Source »

...search of destinations that would normally never crack tourist itineraries. In Liverpool, there's an art installation consisting of 100 identical statues of the naked artist. In Zurich, there's the Moulagenmuseum, dedicated solely to displaying wax representations of painful facial diseases. And in Brooklyn, there's a secret tunnel under Atlantic Avenue, where the body of a murdered British man is still likely hidden somewhere in the walls. More helpful still, Atlas Obscura includes a map for each oddity's location and frequently includes tips on how to gain access. (See 10 things to do in New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oddball Tourist Attractions | 7/7/2009 | See Source »

...data show that the sorts of loans that landed so many home buyers in trouble elsewhere were written at a much slower pace here (in 2004, when 18% of borrowers in the U.S. were taking out subprime loans, only 6% of those in North Dakota were). "It's no secret that we're a little more conservative than the rest of the country," says John Jessen, president of Bismarck's BlackRidge Bank. "We just haven't taken a large jump outside of the box." Funny how far that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bismarck: The Town the Recession Missed | 7/6/2009 | See Source »

Palin, Gov. Sarah • American flag is repeatedly dissed by •mocking Photoshopped image of provokes easily ignited fury of, which - as anyone with the slightest comprehension of human nature could have predicted - provokes a slew of even more viciously mocking Photoshopped images of • secret bleeding of • Vanity Fair profile of will delight non-fans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 7/3/2009 | See Source »

...Finally a bit of prose that makes us long for the clinical precision of the Starr report. Sanford told reporters the affair had begun "very innocently," which reveals that he still hasn't been honest with himself about the willfulness of his actions. When a married man begins a secret, solicitous correspondence with a beautiful and emotionally needy single woman, he has already begun to cheat on his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is There Hope for the American Marriage? | 7/2/2009 | See Source »

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