December 2010
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Filed Under: Predictions
It’s the time of year when people start bringing out the mulled wine, chilling the champagne and playing the prediction game. Here are just a few of the many (many, many) predictions lists circulating the web. Mashable looked into the future of music, predicting for one that “Subscription services will be popular, not profitable.”  The Independent took a look at health and...
Dec 23rd
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Filed Under: Maybe Everyone Is Watching Teen Mom?
The 2010 Census data is slowly coming out and one of the more interesting trends is that less teenage girls are having babies. In fact the teen pregnancy rate is the lowest it has been in nearly seven decades of governmental record keeping. Of course the recession is a major player in this trend, but another theory being floated is that shows like Teen Mom are influencing teens to practice safe...
Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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Filed Under: Talking the Talk
I’m sitting here in my coffice, trying to sip down some latte art when I get intrigued by a halfalouge a girl in glasses in having over by the cream and sugar stand. I don’t know her, but I can already tell her that “silly bandz” is not a brand new trend. Feel like I might need to go refudiate some of her claims. (This is how I would talk if I actually used any of The New...
Dec 22nd
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WatchWatch
Filed Under: Watch Me!  Come January (the coldest time to call Brooklyn your home) I’ll be roving to friends’ houses—specifically friends with cable—to watch Portlandia and hopefully warm myself with chuckles. Created by SNL alum Fred Armisen and Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein the show will start blowing my (and maybe your) mind on IFC January 21st. 
Dec 16th
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Filed: News Flash
Soon tiny tweeny boppers will be streaming their favorite Disney shows (alongside ABC and ABC Fox) shows direct on their computers via Netflix. The shows will appear in the “Play On Demand” section two weeks after they are first featured on the networks, Netflix will be dishing out somewhere between $50,000—$150,000 an episode. (Source: The Los Angeles Times)
Dec 9th