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Over the last few years, a curious phenomenon has arisen in the world of online commerce: it seems that people tend to buy things during evening hours, right around when they're also unwinding after work with a glass or entire bottle of wine. While you may have thought it your own mildly embarrassing secret vice, getting drunk and buying dumb crap online is more common than you might think, and online retailers are taking notice. More »
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J.D. Bauer is an outspoken environmentalist who's written a young adult novel called Quest for Water. Incidentally, he's also a serial killer. More »
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What if Michele Bachmann shopped on Amazon.com and then reviewed her purchases? Pleated-Jeans brings us this rendering, which points out that she would probably be unsatisfied with any eye makeup she bought to subdue the effect her crazy-eyes have on people and that Bert and Ernie apple juice just might make her son gay. More »
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Have you marked on your calendar the publication date of Christine O'Donnell's forthcoming memoir, Troublemaker? A bunch of enterprising internet vandals have. It's no Santorum, but it's pretty devious. More »
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• Worst-selling, that is. Swift's April Elle issue sold the fewest copies of the year, and her covers of Glamour and Marie Claire were nearly as bad. Blake Lively bombed on Vogue and Esquire, but weirdly sold well for Allure. [WWD]

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Good news for fans of incest-themed erotic fiction: Amazon says it's all been a big misunderstanding. They blame tech issues. More »
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Here's one problem with a Kindle: Amazon can just make your stuff disappear. And they've now decided they want to yank one woman's incest-themed erotica, among other books. Is Flowers In The Attic next? Or the Bible? More »
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Tomorrow is the first day of December, and we're already being inundated with Christmas crap! Here's a handy buyers guide. More »
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Amazon's headache isn't over: MSNBC has identified nude photos and videos of children for sale on the site. The company hasn't yet discussed pulling The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure, and its author is being monitored by police. More »
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Amazon's Kindle store is selling a book called The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure. And judging from past examples and what Amazon has said so far, consumer complaints may not change that. More »
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Thanks to free e-book downloads, a new fiction genre is showing up on Kindle best-seller lists: erotic fiction aimed at men. Since Amazon is essentially distributing free literary pornography, it seems only a matter of time before conservative groups protest. More »
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How, you wondered, could an author follow the smash finding-herself chartbuster Eat, Pray Love? Here's your answer: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage. More »
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For those too lazy to actually read the Stephenie Meyer comic book biography released as part of the Female Force series, now you can download the "digital video comic" version of Twilight: Unbound for $2 on iTunes and Amazon. [UPI] More »
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• Change! Stately old American Vogue is apparently seeking to revamp itself. Says Wayne Sterling, the mag wants "a new circle of models, an influx of fresh, young photographers and a desire for 'unpredictability' in the stories." Unpredictability. In Vogue. [TI]

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• At last, a celebrity with a realistic outlook on her whatever-line: "Unless you need it, it's just stuff," says Alicia Silverstone of her collaboration with Ecotools. [WWD]

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Amazon.com eventually pulled a rape simulation video game, but now the company is selling the interactive DVD Stockholm: An Exploration of True Love, a "vivid exploration of Stockholm Syndrome" in which you must sexually and psychologically abuse your kidnapped victim to get her to fall in love with you. [Feministing] More »
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...Well, in one extremely specific anthropological study, anyway. More »
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Amazon claims its de-ranking of gay, feminist, and otherwise vile and degrading material is justa "glitch" — but many books are still rankless, and many people (including us) are still pissed. More »
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Yesterday we discovered that Amazon.com wasn't the only website selling the rape simulation video game, Rapelay. Now Overstock.com has stopped selling the game and apologized and the game has disappeared from eBay. More »
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Reports across the pond claim that Amazon.com has stopped selling the game Rapelay, a Japanese video game that involves the player stalking victims and then raping them. More »
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Via Random Good Stuff: Nipple Extractor for sale on Amazon for the low, low price of $4.73. Some reviews, after the jump. More »
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Yay for women on the web: As today's NY Times reports, Meg Frost, the creator of Cute Overload, has recently released a page-a-day desk calendar with pictures from the website and the calendar rose to the upper ranks of Amazon's best-sellers list. The site is also raking in a chunk of change from ad sales, which range from $500 a week for a standard ad to $2,000 a week for a premium ad. Ultimately, the site is so successful because it's a warm antidote to all of the nastiness on the internet; who can deny the pleasures of noming on the cute ear nubs on a kitteh? [NY Times, Image via Cute Overload] More »
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Coming soon to an eco-friendly phallus near you: rainforest condoms! The Brazilian government has begun production of condoms using rubber trees from the Amazon. The Amazonian condoms will not only provide an income for the people living in the rainforest (an estimated $1.3 million a year for 550 families) and, according to Reuters, they will somehow reduce pressure to fell trees. [Reuters] More »
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• Carrie Bradshaw in Burberry in Sex and the City movie ads: Potentially even more damaging to the brand than the chavs? [Vogue UK]

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The only interesting thing we found about the 'Astro-nut' love triangle kidnap thing blah blah blah, was the fact that she drove the 900 miles from Houston to Orlando non-stop, wearing diapers. More »
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