Weekly Links: Haircare Developments, GMO Updates, & Big Box News

Send to KindleTweet Link love from this week and last – hipsters at hotels outside Manhattan (I know, brace yourself), Nordstrom may finally arrive on NYC soil, hair care innovations, GMO updates and more! L’Oreal apparently has some new hair cair ingredient dubbed neogenic that could possibly help improve hair density, according to Cosmetics Design. [...]

A Simple Detox: A Personal History of Binge ________

Send to KindleTweet 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 [...]

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

Send to KindleTweet 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.” [...]

Google May Enter Social Media Space

Send to KindleTweet 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 [...]

Facebook The Movie

Send to KindleTweet 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 [...]

Facebook Taps Ex-Bush Regulator For Privacy Defense

Send to KindleTweet 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 [...]

Target Eyes Yummy Mummies

Send to KindleTweet 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 [...]

Polyamory in the City

Send to KindleTweet 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 [...]

The BlackBerry Binge

Send to KindleTweet 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 [...]

An Orgasmic Eco-Friendly TV

Send to KindleTweet 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. [...]

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