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When have we not been in the midst of a vampire craze?

Yet another vampire film opens this Friday: Twilight: New Moon, the second installment of the popular series. Is New Moon simply part of a recent vampire boom, along with True Blood and countless others movies, TV shows, and books? Not quite, say ...

From CHRISTOPHER BEAM AND CHRIS WILSON, Slate,  19 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Anne Rice,  Stephen King,  Chris Wilson,  Werner Herzog,  Bram Stoker

Why couldn't we tell that the balloon boy's parents were faking their distress?

Shortly after authorities announced that 6-old-year Falcon Heene had been found safe and sound, ending speculation that he had been aboard a flying saucer that escaped from his family's backyard, his father Richard appeared before an encampment of ...

From CHRIS WILSON, Slate,  30 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Falcon Heene,  Mayumi Heene,  Paul Ekman,  Malcolm Gladwell,  Kim Philby

How the AvantGrand, Yamaha's new electronic piano, improves upon a 300-year-old instrument.

There are nine pianos squeezed into the back of Yamaha's music salon in the old Aeolian Building in New York, and between them they represent an abridged history of technology's assault on the instrument. Against the wall you'll find a majestic 9-foot ...

From CHRIS WILSON, Slate,  28 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Art Tatum,  Darth Vader,  Nintendo

Running the White House Web site on Drupal is a political disaster.

In yet another repudiation of its predecessor, the Obama administration this week migrated the White House Web site to Drupal, the popular open-source Web site management software. By dumping the Bush administration's propriety system and embracing ...

From CHRIS WILSON, Slate,  27 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Drupal,  White House,  Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  U.S. Democratic Party

The Hive is Alive? Part II

As I pointed out in the first part of this series, every inflation advocate points to the demise of the west and the rise of Asia as a consequence of global trade imbalance and failed policies of the U.S. No one can argue the mistakes of our ...

From CHRIS WILSON, Safehaven,  26 Sep 2009

The dangers of social spam.

Until last weekend, I had never heard of WeGame.com, the go-to source for videos of video games. Then, on Sunday, I got an e-mail from a casual acquaintance with the subject line "[casual acquaintance] has sent you a photo!" Naturally, I clicked the ...

From CHRIS WILSON, Slate,  23 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Columbia University,  Facebook Inc.,  Rolex,  Google Inc.

The latest from Barack Obama's Facebook news feed.

Looking forward to having a constructive dialogue with all of you about the vital issues facing this nation. Mitch McConnell Same to you, socialist! Nancy Pelosi flagged this as offensive. Joseph C. Wilson changed his profile name to Not That Joe ...

From CHRISTOPHER BEAM AND CHRIS WILSON, Slate,  18 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Facebook Inc.,  Robert Gibbs,  Kanye West,  Joe Wilson (politician)

Confessions of a Fashion Week Party Monster [Couture Crash]

Copy this whole post to another site Fashion Week just OD'd. But I'm comforted by the fact that its sexy corpse will rise again to do another skeleton dance on the catwalk, seduce the style-obsessed among us, and throw up at an after-party at Indochine. ...

From CHRIS WILSON, Gawker,  18 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Martin Scorsese,  Marc Jacobs,  Giorgio Armani,  Josh Hartnett,  Heatherette (designer)

What Facebook can learn from Gmail.

On Tuesday, Facebook launched Prototypes, a service that lets users test out new tools and features before they become fixtures on the site. The first small batch offers nothing revolutionary: a search feature for photo tags, a way to better sync ...

From CHRIS WILSON, Slate,  16 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  Google Inc.,  eBay Inc.,  Flickr

Has a Stroke Gone to Rehab? [Rumormonger]

Copy this whole post to another site This may be the wildest rumor since Rod Stewart got his stomach pumped, but there's serious buzz in NYC nightlife circles that Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. has halted recording on their new album to check ...

From CHRIS WILSON, Gawker,  15 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Albert Hammond Jr,  Rod Stewart,  Agyness Deyn

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