Advertising - ‘Up in the Air,’ a Bonanza for an Airline and a Hotel Chain - NYTimes.com
George Clooney stars in “Up in the Air,” which broadly features American Airlines and the Hilton Hotels chain. The two paid nothing for the exposure.
Urban Dictionary: Pope Tipping
Wow! Did you see that woman leap across those pews to set a new Pope Tipping record? 1.73 seconds! That’s two one hundreths better than last year’s time.
A couple of years ago, Google CEO Eric Schmidt joked that everyone growing up now should change their name when they’re 21. But perhaps there will come a point when we’ll all have something awkward or even potentially damaging about us on the Web, and if it’s public for everyone, then maybe we’re protected by the crowd, all of us living out our most embarrassing moments, one Google search at a time, in front of one another.On The Media: Transcript of “Life Archive” (December 18, 2009)
On The Media: Transcript of “Unsafe Sext” (December 18, 2009)It seems incredibly rash and stupid to send a naked picture of yourself over a cell phone, but you’re sending it originally to someone you trust. This is a friend or a guy you like. It’s not someone you’re expecting to be betrayed by.
But the problem is that once these pictures are in existence, it’s all too easy for them to get forwarded on, and then they become fodder for gossip and the kind of salacious scandal that we all are kind of addicted to, and teenagers perhaps most of all.
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Michael J Fox - Adventures of an Incurable Optimist (ABC)
Michael J. Fox travels around the world to explore the nature of optimism and its transformative power; an in-depth look at the scientific power of optimism.
Urban Dictionary: jack off all trades
A person who does not use profession as criteria for choosing sexual partners
Ricky Gervais - 60 Minutes - CBS News
“It’s a children’s book for existentialists. Life is pointless and futile and then you die,” Gervais told Stahl.
“And it’s going to be a huge bestseller,” she predicted.
“Merry Christmas!!!” he replied.
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