A Simple Detox: A Personal History of Binge ________

It was 2008 and I was at a friend’s birthday-cum-going away party. She, a petite jovial MBA grad and marketing manager, was engaged and soon was set to leave the country. In a few months time she’d marry abroad and relocate to London, and so we drank. And drank. And drank. A few days later [...]

Link Love: Tea Party tees, Preggers Diet, GE Babies, & A Facebook Scam

Genetically engineered babies. A new hormonal treatment is said to be able to treat congenital adrenal hyperplasia, a genetic disorder that can interfere with the development of genitalia. The Los Angeles Times article writes:  “in severe cases, girls are born with male-like sexual organs although they usually have ovaries and a uterus.” The treatment is [...]

Google May Enter Social Media Space

Search giant Google may be entering the gaming and social media spaces, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The July 28 report by Ami Efrati cited unnamed sources that said Google has been talking with gaming firms, including Playdom, Electronic Arts‘ Playfish and Zynga Game Networks, which Google has a stake in. [...]

Facebook The Movie

It’s been an interesting year for Facebook and it’s look like the Silicon Valley-based social media giant will only get more publicity. The question is good or bad? Or, is as they say, any PR good PR? While twenty-something Founder and Chief Mark Zuckerberg deals with privacy issues, the numbers begin to show that the [...]

Facebook Taps Ex-Bush Regulator For Privacy Defense

It is far from comforting that the folks over in the NoCal office of social networking giant Facebook have tapped a former member of baby Bush administration to defend its privacy practices. According to the Financial Times, former Republican Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, Tim Muris, now an attorney at O’Melveny & Myers, was hired to review [...]

Target Eyes Yummy Mummies

Target.com is celebrating yummy mummies across the country with the Moody Mamas maternity collection. Boasting celebrity fans including Heidi Klum, Jessica Alba, Ashlee Simpson, and Tori Spelling, Moody Mamas fuses high-style with comfortable, affordable fashions for pregnant women. Moody Mamas, the brainchild of L.A. designers Marta Abrams and Elise Rosemarin, aims to breathe new life [...]

Polyamory in the City

Women are crazy and men are lucky. I guess that what us hetero NYC women have been told to accept. The real truth is women are trying to live up to a fairytale and men in NYC are inundated with pussy. And dick. But for now we’re tackling the ones that can’t dress and think [...]

The BlackBerry Binge

The Dirt: Research in Motion, the Canadian company behind the ubiquitous smartphone, BlackBerry, is gearing up for new releases that will satisfy addicts on all carriers. Previously, those admiring the Bold had to use AT&T services. That will all be history when the BlackBerry Tour 9630 is released later this summer. Set for release on [...]

An Orgasmic Eco-Friendly TV

The Dirt:How big is your—television? Is that a sign of something else, like the sporty ride purchased during a midlife crisis or the many diamonds a woman may covet for the Nth wedding anniversary? Mitsubishi is just one of many companies catering to the demand for televisions bigger than most buyers’ children. Nevertheless, they’ve added [...]

Free Small Business Web Tools

The Dirt: Building a website and a blog are two very different things, but both involve culling the endless virtual world for tools and widgets. Either way, there are many free and cheap resources and technology tools available that enable businesses and nonprofits to create basic sites, with options that enable fundraising campaigns. We have [...]

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