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An attorney from New Jersey has sued two of his ex-girlfriends after both of them posted unflattering things about him on a website called LiarsCheatersRUs. The man says the vitriolic postings are ruining his career, the women won't back down, and the site can't even be bothered to fully spell out the word "are" in its url. Everyone involved in this should be at least a little bit embarrassed for themselves. More »
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Yesterday was especially unkind to Michele Bachmann. First, news broke that her Iowa campaign director, Kent Sorenson, had defected to Camp Ron Paul. Then, she lost another top staff member, her political director Wes Enos, who resigned after he had the nerve to publicly defend Sorenson against charges that he'd illegally accepted money from Ron Paul's campaign. More »
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The Googlher wants to make your web-browsing experience a little more like this: Log on to Google. Mmm. Sign in to Gmail. Ahhh. Click 'Compose Email.' Ohhhh... Hit 'Send'. *Fireworks* Yes, the Googlher is a vibrator that plugs into your computer through a USB port that pulsates every time Google pings your browser. (NB: The audio on the video might be considered NSFW, depending on your employer's stance on moaning.) More »
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As part of its continuing mission to improve our lives/make money/creep everyone out, Google has rolled out its own version of gaydar. Now when you type a celebrity's name followed with the word "gay" or "straight," Google will suggest their probable sexuality based on statements they've made in interviews. The company never announced the new feature, and its list is far from extensive. Nothing shows up for most celebrities, and you won't find any answers about stars who are rumored to be in the closet like Anderson Cooper, Queen Latifah, Tom Cruise, and John Travolta. However, people can stop speculating about James Franco, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Ryan Seacrest's sexuality because Google says they're straight. And if there's one thing we can trust when it comes to people's private sexual preferences, it's Google's algorithm. More »
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Google+ is still in its infancy, and yet it's already run into controversy over the way women are treated in the community. After a female user complained about the "Booberday" meme, which involves posting photos of women's cleavage under the guise of fighting breast cancer, she was told to stop being such a humorless bitch, then called a hypocrite for having modeling shots on her profile. More »
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Do you love Google? Do you dig the way Gmail suggests you CC some folks you might have forgotten in a chain of messages? How it recommends products you need to buy based on the words you've typed in an email? How it fills in your search query before you've even figured out what you're actually searching for? More »
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Search engine —and "place you go to remember things you already knew but no longer have to remember"— Google celebrates its thirteenth birthday today! And to think it all began with a relatively modest $100,000 investment. More »
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After a talk Facebook's chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg gave at Harvard Business School, she saw a difference between the women and the men. The men asked about business; the women asked "girl questions." More »
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A New York City woman — let's call her Ms. G, because she signed a non-disclosure agreement — went to Google's local offices to take a test for an administrative position. She'd already had a phone interview, and now there was a test. Afterwards, at lunch, Ms. G says seven of the roughly 20 people there were politely escorted out. All seven were overweight women; everyone who stayed was thin. More »
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"As it stands, Google's recipe search gives undue advantage to the "quick & easy" recipe sites, encourages dishonesty, and sets up people to be dissuaded from cooking, as they will soon learn that recipes always end up taking more time than they expected. Alas, the search algorithm fundamentally misunderstands what recipe searchers are really looking for: great recipes." More »
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Some anti-choicers with a little tech know-how have made the Wikipedia page for "abortion" the second search result when you Google "murder." Their success is perhaps impressive, but manipulating search engine results isn't the most effective form of advocacy. More »
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Today Google Weddings launched, promising that the company which is gradually taking over every aspect of our lives can now "simplify wedding planning." Basically, the site just highlights existing tools like Google Sites, Picnik, Google Docs, and Picasa and shows how you can use them to set up your wedding website, share pictures with guests, and organize your guest list. The only new features are a dozen website designs by wedding planner Michelle Rago, and Google Docs templates for soliciting addresses from your guests, coordinating vendors, and keeping track of gifts. More »
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• Artist John Currin interviewed Tom Ford, and joked that sometimes innocent statements are "The small acorn that will grow into a great oak of a scandal later." Well! Ford then claimed, "I'm one of the least materialistic people that exist."

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• George Clooney has teamed up with Google and the United Nations to watch the borders of the Sudan.

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An interview with Google's Marissa Mayer reveals why it is that Google has a slightly higher percentage of female engineers than the rest of Silicon Valley. It's actually a really complicated algorithm. More »
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An extremely addictive new Internet toy allows you to track the frequency of specific words in books going back all the way to 1500. We decided to check out how words like "depression," "ho," and "vagina" fared through the ages. More »
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Brittney Sykes and Emma Westhusing robbed a bank on Monday in Portland, but got busted: There was a tracking device hidden in the cash and instead of ditching it, one Googled it while the other hid it in her Hyundai. More »
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Vitaly Borker, whose DecorMyEyes.com was exposed as a front to harass people and game Google, has been charged with mail fraud, wire fraud, making interstate threats and cyberstalking. His language is inappropriate for a family newspaper, to say the least. More »
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• Tom Ford, a man who immobilized his forehead with Botox, thinks people should go naked. Especially, well... "Fat women almost always look better without the constraint and lumpy pinching of clothes, all the straps and elastic squeezing and sucking." [ContactMusic]

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• Precocious-in-the-bad-way tween "designer" Cecilia Cassini, who sells $500 dresses, says she took "like, three" sewing classes, but quit because her teacher was "like, rude." We have a feeling one day soon Cassini will be horribly embarrassed of all this.

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• Lindsay Lohan is leaving rehab today for a very special reason: to shoot a campaign for Kira Plastinina, the bankrupt-but-now-revived fashion label designed by a Russian orange juice oligarch's teen daughter. Remember when Lindsay did campaigns for Miu Miu? [TMZ]

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• According to reports in the Arab press, Naomi Campbell is going to convert to Russian Orthodox faith so she can marry her scary-rich oligarch boyfriend, Vladimir Doronin, in a massive ceremony at the Temple of Luxor on the Nile! [P6]

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• American Apparel is struggling along. But in addition to its other problems, it is facing a "cash crunch." Dov Charney is reluctant to sell to more outside investors, however, because he wants to hold onto his 53% majority stake. [NYPost]

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• Vogue Paris picked Marion Cotillard for its September cover, and bleached her eyebrows. Strangely enough, the French actress has never been on the cover of Vogue Paris before, though she made American Vogue's cover last November and this July. [@VogueParisLive]

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• Isabella Rossellini has a Bulgari handbag collection. The actress called bags "an indispensable accessory for us women" and compared them to jewels; hers cost $1,700-$2,600. Rossellini printed drawings from her acclaimed Green Porno series on the linings. [ONTD]

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• Julianne Moore is returning as the face of Bulgari for fall. With baby lions. Baby lions that make it very difficult to even think about the handbags. Baby lions! Lion babies! [Frockwriter]

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Anyone who typed "Google" into their browser yesterday was treated to the work of Missouri third-grader Makenzie Melton. "I chose this doodle because the rainforest is in danger," she said of the drawing that won her a $15K scholarship. [Newser] More »
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• Leighton Meester has become a face — a mane? a scalp? — of Herbal Essences. She says her personal stylist always uses it. Stars have to lie about these things, but couldn't they at least make it convincing? [Elle UK]

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• To pursue her goal of creating the world's ugliest clothing in every design category known to man, Lindsay Lohan is reportedly in talks to launch a line of handbags with Ed Hardy. [E]

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• Pictures of a 15-year-old Angelina Jolie modeling for photographer Harry Langdon will be auctioned in California on Friday. [Vogue UK]
• Karl Lagerfeld dressed Simone Veil in Chanel for her induction into the Académie Française. [WWD]

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• Sex doesn't sell movie tickets, according to a new study out of California. Apparently, kids today don't want to watch hot and heavy scenes, and prefer the chaste sexuality of Twilight and Jane Austen. • More »
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The blog hosting a racist image of Michelle Obama has removed the picture - which was No. 1 on Google images - and issued an apology. However, Google warns that it could easily reappear. [Guardian] More »
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Apparently, if you search for Michelle Obama in Google images, the first thing that appears is not a likeness of the First Lady, but instead an extremely offensive and racist picture. More »
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A cautionary tale. [YouTube via BuzzFeed] More »
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Googling "women should" yields some upsetting results, and some that are just bizarre. Is it okay for men to drink bottled water that's been left in a car? [Stiletto Revolt, via Feminist Law Professors] More »
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• The stylist who allegedly walked out on Mark Fast's show says it wasn't because the models were too "fat" - but because they were too fat to walk right! "The walk is very important,'' she explains. [Mirror]

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• They said it would never happen, but a judge ordered that Google reveal Liskula Cohen's anonymous online tormentor. The model sued Google to find out who was behind a hate-blog about her, in order to file a defamation suit. [NYPost]

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Lori Adelman at Feministing is taking on Google for its strange policy of banning abortion providers from advertising on Google AdWords in specific countries. More »
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• This amazing (and stylish) Australian "supergran" is 83 years old and is still working as a yoga instructor. She teaches up to 11 classes a week. • More »
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