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Friday, January 27, 2012

Weekend reading

How Sitting All Day Is Damaging Your Body and How You Can Counteract It

If 2012's Oscar-nominated movie posters told the truth

Burgled in Philly

Google Reincarnates Dead Paper Mill as Data Center of Future

HAPPINESS TAKES (A LITTLE) MAGIC

Mega-clubs are drowning out the indie scene

The Obree Way - Training Manual

2012 Jaguar XF Supercharged

Generational warfare

Best Places in the World to Retire

Is There Anything Marc Newson Hasn’t Designed?

Cameron Rebukes Euro Leaders at Davos, Calls Financial Transaction Tax "Quite Simply Madness"

Amazon's Hit Man
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