The makers of Scrabulous (RIP) are hoping that by changing the name and the shape of their tiles they can a escape copyright infringement lawsuit on the part of Scrabble’s creators, Hasbro. The unfortunately named Wordscraper has many of the same hallmarks as its previous incarnation, namely, the itty-bitty, teeny-tiny message box. It’s also got [...]

Our columnist Ryan Barrett dishes on dating white guys and disses CNN’s “Black in America.”

And now…make-up sex: After 140 years of sleeping on the couch in Black America, the House of Representatives has issued a formal apology for “the institution of slavery, and the subsequent Jim Crow laws that for years discriminated against blacks as second-class citizens in American society,” NPR reports.  As the Washington Post points out, though, [...]

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google.com
0.98

yahoo.com
0.9

myspace.com
0.74

youtube.com
1

amazon.com
0.9

craigslist.org
1.13

facebook.com
0.83

photobucket.com
0.85

paypal.com
1.04

cnn.com
1.35

blogger.com
1.06

wordpress.com
0.98

flickr.com
1.15

weather.com
1.08

bankofamerica.com
0.9

yellowpages.com
0.72

whitepages.com
0.75

apple.com
0.89

evite.com
0.67

nytimes.com
1.13

careerbuilder.com
0.79

monster.com
0.82

digg.com
1.56

usatoday.com
1.15

washingtonpost.com
1.15

orbitz.com
0.83

macys.com
0.59

drudgereport.com
2.08

trashypretty.com
0.83

latimes.com
1.3

americanexpress.com
0.98

wsj.com
1.67

mtv.com
0.75

scribd.com
1.25

hotels.com
0.8

huffingtonpost.com
1.35

linkedin.com
0.94

kayak.com
0.82

bbc.co.uk
1.44

gizmodo.com
2.08

suite101.com
0.77

slate.com
1.11

plentyoffish.com
1.11

barackobama.com
0.68

ning.com
1.15

chicagotribune.com
1.11

staples.com
0.98

lifehacker.com
1.63

friendster.com
1

rottentomatoes.com
1.17

macrumors.com
2.08

politico.com
1.7

archive.org
1.11

moli.com
0.96

vanguard.com
1.74

salon.com
1.13

chron.com
1.2

feedburner.com
1.11

buzznet.com
0.92

motorola.com
1.25

alexa.com
1.33

zdnet.com
1.7

egotastic.com
1.99

usnews.com
1.02

gawker.com
1.17

billboard.com
1.08

usmagazine.com
0.5

thesmokinggun.com
1.38

canon.com
1.35

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0.8

cafemom.com
0.47

consumerist.com
1.7

rollingstone.com
1.08

mefeedia.com
1.53

popcrunch.com
1.15

defamer.com
1.15

engadget.com
1.7

timewarnercable.com
0.82

gmail.com
0.9

tdameritrade.com
2.08

newyorker.com
1.22

fleshbot.com
2.23

pipl.com
0.96

realsimple.com
0.44

utorrent.com
1.5

variety.com
1.11

observer.com
1.41

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1.3

csmonitor.com
1.25

hm.com
0.57

hairboutique.com
0.54

nationalreview.com
1.74

mediabistro.com
1.13

traffic.com
0.89

vacationrentals.com
0.87

villagevoice.com
1

jezebel.com
1.02

opera.com
1.35

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0.6

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0.43

nysun.com
1.33

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0.9

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1.7

gothamist.com
1.11

hollywoodgrind.com
1.41

laist.com
1.53

thestranger.com
1.02

In Gattaca, the Ethan Hawke film set in a Dystopian future with DNA-based discrimination, children are engineered to inherit all the good traits and none of the bad from mom and dad (dubbed the valids). Those who are born naturally are called “faith births” (the invalids).
We’re getting scarily closer to that dark vision, with new [...]

VP Boomerang: First, let’s talk Kaine.  Last night media outlets, such as NY Times’ political blog, shouted from the rooftops that Obama’s VP is “very very likely” to be former attorney, Roman Catholic missionary and now Governor of Virginia, Tim Kaine. But according to a University of Virginia professor quoted in Politico, the political ideology [...]

With his latest album The 3RD World, Harlem-based independent hip-hop artist Immortal Technique takes no prisoners.

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“Please do not respond to questions or make any statements.”
1984, Ministry of Informationspeak? No, a line from an internal memo from Environmental Protection Agency sent to all employees who are considering speaking to the press or congressional investigators.
While this is a pretty commonplace practice at many large organizations, both corporate and otherwise, [...]

Is the newfangled search engine Cuil, cool?

Scrabulous not so fabulous: The game’s up. (Sorry, couldn’t help it.) The makers of the cult Facebook fave, Scrabulous, have folded in the face of a cease and desist orders from the makers of the real Scrabble, Hasbro. Facebook and Scrabulous voluntarily took the game down, so now dorky diehards will have to use Hasbro’s [...]

CNN is reporting that Los Angeles just had a medium-sized earthquake at 5.8 on the Richter Scale. Located about 30 miles east of downtown L.A, it was about 7 miles deep, which means that the quake feels stronger and cause more damage. Over at the P+P home office in  Santa Monica, our wooden one-story apartment [...]

Do women bloggers belong in the Style section? The New York Times steps on a land-mine and we have their response…

In all things in life, you get whatever standard you set. When you lower standards, you will get low quality. The cliched phrase, “you get what you pay for,” applies to journalism as well. As more and more blogs depends on free content (and to be completely open, outside of our grad student contributors, we [...]

The International Herald Tribune/New York Times‘ Adam Nagourney spend 829 words wondering, “Why is Obama not improving in the polls?” He points out the disconnect between the adoring crowds with hundreds of thousands of people and the minimal spread.
All sorts of reasons were given.
Class, what do you think?
—No one heard of him six months ago.
(I [...]