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Beyonce sticks it to Target, giving Wal-Mart shoppers $37,500 in gift cards (+video) – I’ll admit that I think Beyoncé and Jay-Z are pretty much the perfect power couple, and the marketing strategy of Beyoncé’s new album XO is doing nothing to dim my view. Even though Beyoncé is already ... more >
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The hobbit — an unexpected deficiency – So apparently James Bond’s impotent alcoholism isn’t enough – now the Medical Journal of Australia has published its own holiday article on Gollum, arguing that one of the ways in which good triumphs over evil in the Hobbit books is via vitamin D ... more >
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Jeff Bezos’ wife slams ‘misleading’ biography in Amazon review – This is kind of hilarious and maybe even against Amazon’s own reviewing policy. But in the review section to The Everything Store by Brad Stone, Mackenzie Bezos leaves a lengthy one star review accusing the author of fabricating many things ... more >