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Who killed John Lennon?

Hey, this is some pretty funny stuff!
This nutjob believes that Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and fiction writer, Stephen King were all complicit in the murder of John Lennon, and that they used Mark David Chapman as the fall guy.
Apparently the evidence is hidden in ‘government codes’ found in Time, Newsweek and other magazines [...]

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Nameless Letter

This is pretty cool.
The idea is to create a custom bookmark and leave it anonymously in a book that’s accessible to the public. The Nameless Letter website then tracks it. Check it out.

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Costs of printing the NY Times

There’s an interesting article over at The Silicon Alley Insider that states the New York Times could buy every single subscriber an Amazon Kindle e-book reader and it would still cost them only half of their existing publishing costs.
From the article:
According to the Times’s Q308 10-Q, the company spends $63 million per quarter on raw [...]

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Princess Leia’s Wishful Drinking

Carrie Fisher is best known for her role in Star Wars as the irate, nubile, bun-headed Jabbaslave called Princess Leia.
What’s not as well known is that she’s also the author of Postcards from the Edge, which was later adapted into the award winning all-star Oscar-nominated dramafest film of the same name (with Meryl Streep, Shirley [...]

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