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Sockington, the most popular cat on Twitter, along with his owner Jason Scott, were recently featured in The Boston Globe: “9 lives, and 1.5 million Twitter followers”

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New York Times designer Steven Heller takes a look at the evolution of pictograms used for The Olympics throughout the years.

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Last night Saturday Night Live featured a parody of Undercover Boss featuring Steve Jobs and Richard Branson going undercover at their respective companies.

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“The Sandpit”, a wonderful tilt-shift video created by Sam O’Hare that features a day in the life of New York City.

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It’s Not Cat’s Fault, an adoption ad campaign by The Shelter Pet Project.

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Time Out NYC takes a look at the age old debate: Brooklyn vs. Manhattan

It’s a time-honored tradition to identify strongly with a borough, and the chest-thumping has gotten louder in recent years as more and more Manhattanites (or their boyfriends or girlfriends) move to Brooklyn. It’s tempting to pick sides over issues of transportation, finances, square footage, conveniences, attitude and culture. Are you Brooklyn? Or Manhattan? And will the two—should the two—ever be thought of as one?

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The Big Picture is featuring a gallery of photos showing the devastation caused by yesterday’s 8.8 magnitude earthquake that struck central Chile yesterday.

The Huffington Post as a list of resources on how to help with the relief efforts in Chile.

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The Poetry of Reality (An Anthem for Science) by Symphony of Science

The Poetry of Reality is the fifth installment in the Symphony of Science music video series. It features 12 scientists and science enthusiasts, including Michael Shermer, Jacob Bronowski, Carl Sagan, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, Jill Tarter, Lawrence Krauss, Richard Feynman, Brian Greene, Stephen Hawking, Carolyn Porco, and PZ Myers, promoting science through words of wisdom.

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Steve O’Hear of TechCrunch Europe takes a close look at the dreaded PR Embargo.

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“Badges Like Us”, The Foursquare Rap by Boris Silver and Matt Newberg.

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New York City and most of the East Coast has been getting a substantial amount of snow over the last couple of days. I’ve been going out and shooting some photos of the Snowpocalypse.

Video of the big fluffy snow falling on Thursday.

Snowpocalypse NYC even has it’s own venue on Foursquare with over 2200 checkins.

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Plancast has put together a really great Unofficial Guide To SXSW 2010.

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Trailer for the remade of A Nightmare on Elm Street, produced by MIchael Bey and staring Jackie Earle Haley as Freddy Krueger.

It is scheduled for release on April 30th, 2010 as a reboot of the series.

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Lori models Siberian Apparel, the new winter line from American Apparel.

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Burgers & Cupcakes in Hell’s Kitchen

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Foodprint NYC, part of a series of “international conversations about food and the city”, takes place on Saturday, February 27th at Studio-X in Manhattan.

From a cluster analysis of bodega inventories to the cultural impact of the ice-box, and from food deserts to peak phosphorus, panelists will examine the hidden corsetry that gives shape to urban foodscapes, and collaboratively speculate on how to feed New York in the future. The free afternoon program will include designers, policy-makers, flavor scientists, culinary historians, food retailers, and others, for a wide-ranging discussion of New York’s food systems, past and present, as well as opportunities to transform our edible landscape through technology, architecture, legislation, and education.

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Michael Paul Smith has been recreating the town he grew up in by building amazing models and dioramas, which when photographed look quite real.

What started out as an exercise in model building and photography, ended up as a dream-like reconstruction of the town I grew up in. It’s not an exact recreation, but it does capture the mood of my memories.

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Casttoo makes a great series of tattoos for casts, you can even send them a x-ray for a custom image for your cast.

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