How To Get A Star

How To Get A Star On The Hollywood Walk Of Fame, 10 Lifehacks From 100 Years Ago, Jack Handey Is The Envy Of Every Comedy Writer In America, The Social-Media Bubble Is Quietly Deflating, Olbermann Will Return To ESPN The Daily Digg Wednesday, July 17, 2013 START WITH THE $30,000 APPLICATION FEE How To Get A Star On The Hollywood Walk Of Fame newsfeed.time.com Unlike, say, the Oscars or the Emmys, the standards for inclusion in this elite club are kept under tight wraps. THE ORIGINAL DIY GUIDE 10 Lifehacks From 100 Years Ago mentalfloss.com In the 1910s, Gallaher Ltd of Belfast & London and Ogden's Branch of the Imperial Tobacco Co printed "How-To" series, with clever hints for both everyday and emergency situations. DEEP THOUGHTS ON DEEP THOUGHTS Jack Handey Is The Envy Of Every Comedy Writer In America nytimes.com The notion of real jokes and the existence of pure comedy came up again and again when I asked other writers about Handey. It seemed as if to them Handey is not just writing jokes but trying to achieve some kind of Platonic ideal of the joke form. ANTISOCIAL The Social-Media Bubble Is Quietly Deflating businessweek.com Two years ago, when the craze for social-media startups was in full swing, a former Facebook engineer summed up the situation with a memorable lament: "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads," the engineer, Jeff Hammerbacher, told Bloomberg Businessweek at the time. "That sucks," he added. It might be over. GOOD MORNING, AND GOOD LUCK Olbermann Will Return To ESPN nytimes.com ESPN is expected to announce on Wednesday that the former network mainstay Keith Olbermann, who contentiously departed in 1997, will return to host a one-hour, nightly show for ESPN2 later this year. Read more on Digg.com → LIKE A MAMMAL OUT OF WATER A humpback whale jumps to the surface of the Pacific Ocean at the Uramba Bahia Malaga natural park in Colombia, on July 16, 2013. Credit: LUIS ROBAYO/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom Digg for iPhone & iPad   •   Twitter   •   Facebook digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2013 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014