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Wednesday, 17 July 2013
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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
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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.
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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
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