Ad Age Columnist Offers "Real Scoop" After Mad Men Depiction

While the Wall Street Journal basked in the afterglow of its Mad Men season premiere shout out, going as far as actually creating one of their famous dot-ink portraits of Don Draper, Ad Age was not exactly thrilled with its portrayal. Attempting to set the record straight, Ad Age columnist Rance Crain (who was a member of the magazine’s editorial staff in the ‘60s) picked apart, in organized fashion, the opening lunch interview scene: “No.

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YouTube Users More Interested in Katy Perry Than Barack Obama

Two weeks ago, YouTube asked its users to submit questions for an interview with Katy Perry, the latest in the site’s Moderator series. During the thirty-minute discussion , which was posted on the site today, host Lisa Nova revealed that over 20,500 queries were submitted for the Perry chat

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Watch Shaq Serenade Justin Bieber

At a sound check in Phoenix: “Justin Bieber, ye-es I love you, I hope you like me, I’m your biggest fan.” After the clip ends, Shaq picks Bieber up and tenderly folds him into his purse. [ Buzzfeed ] Read more posts by Edith Zimmerman Filed Under: music , clickables , justin bieber , shaquille o’neal , video

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See a Short Film of Things Getting Destroyed in Super-Slow Motion

Tempus II : seven hypnotic minutes of crushing, smooshing, and shattering by Philip Heron and James Adair. [ Laughing Squid ] Read more posts by Edith Zimmerman Filed Under: movies , clickables , tempus ii , video

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Jane Lynch on Returning to Glee and Getting Physical With Olivia Newton-John

Jane Lynch, the comic actress who brings to life Glee ‘s Sue Sylvester — and who remains completely believable while uttering lines like, “I empower my Cheerios to be champions. Do they go to college? I don’t know

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The DVD Queue: Out Today, a Classy Break From the Blockbuster Doldrums … and Then Clash of the Titans!

Shake off the Blockbuster blues with The Secret of the Grain . Late summer is the season of hype fatigue, a time when everyone around you is talking about how annoyed they are that yet another huge blockbuster that was supposed to be so mind-blowing in fact left their mind conspicuously unblown. So why get your heart broken again when you can sit in your air-conditioned apartment and watch something that is fully Vulture-approved

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Oh, The Places You’ll Go!

by Martha Reed Every summer I try to take at least one field trip to some locale I’ve never been before and I go there for no particularly good reason – taking the trip is enough by itself. I love driving into an unfamiliar part of the country just to see what’s out there. Generally, I find that I like the people just as much or even more so than most folks in town and I have to admit the countryside is very pretty this time of year with all the wildflowers, especially the cornflowers mixed in with Queen Anne’s lace nodding gently in the breeze

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The New Summer Shows-So Far

by Pat Gulley The Gates The Glades Memphis Beat The PBS version of Murder on the Orient Express Scoundrels Rookies Blues Rizzoli and Isles Mystery’s Jane Marple Well, the ‘summer’ season has started, and as it is nothing like the seasons of the distant past, it is a nice feature cable TV has brought to us.

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Trading of Box Office Futures Approved

Those who boldly predicted box office glory for The Karate Kid perhaps cracked a grin at this weekend’s returns , maybe they sent a “told you so!” text… well, in the future, these successful prognosticators could get to celebrate in a sea of dollar bills. Despite the best efforts of the film industry, federal regulators approved a plan from Media Derivatives Inc

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Mark Sanchez Hearts Jamie Lynn Sigler, Theater

First Mark Sanchez took Jamie Lynn Sigler on a date to see David Mamet’s Race , and then, last night, he was leading her around backstage at the Tony awards. What’s surprising about this scenario is not that two good-looking and relatively down-to-earth celebrities have found each other, but that the quarterback of the New York Jets turns out to be an unabashed theater nerd.

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Zach Galifianakis in Talks to Play Nazi-Killing Fish

Warner Bros. has heard the clamor for a Zach Galifianakis movie combining the charms of Finding Nemo and Inglourious Basterds and responded: According to the L.A. Times , he’s in talks to top-line Kevin Lima’s planned CGI-filled remake of 1964′s Don Knotts–starring The Incredible Mr

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One Night With Evelyn Evelyn, Amanda Palmer’s Conjoined-Twin Creation

On Saturday, the last day of their five-night residency at the Lucille Lortel theater, the conjoined Neville twins, a.k.a. Evelyn Evelyn, woke up in two different beds. To be precise, Amanda Palmer (the singer who plays Evelyn Evelyn’s right hand, arm, shoulder, leg and head) woke up at downtown legend John Cameron Mitchell’s apartment in the West Village

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Ratings Good for Bad, Bad for Tonys

1.6 million people tuned into last night’s Breaking Bad season-three finale, up a whole 17 percent from last year’s final episode. Meanwhile, not even Scarlett Johansson, Denzel Washington, and the cast of Glee could save the Tony Awards from an 8 percent decline in viewership from 2009′s NPH-emceed ceremony. This is a clear mandate to give next year’s Tony for Best Featured Actress in a Play to a meth-head instead of a movie star

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See the New Gorillaz Video, ‘On Melancholy Hill’

The Jamie Hewlett–directed aquatic animation also features a few surprise celebrity cameos. [ Some Kind of Awesome ] Read more posts by Edith Zimmerman Filed Under: music , clickables , gorillaz , jamie hewlett , music video , video

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Sigmar Polke Remembered by William Powhida, Dave Hickey, Chrissie Iles, and Others

When Sigmar Polke, giant of the postwar art world , passed away on Friday, New York ’s Jerry Saltz asked artists, critics, and curators to remember him.

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Against Me! Wins World’s Least Coveted Endorsement

Actual subject line of a publicity e-mail we just received: “Leno Calls Against Me! One Of The Best Punk Bands Ever.” Notice, though, that he didn’t call them the best. Presumably that’s a toss-up between Green Day, Sum 41, and GG Allin’s Murder Junkies. Read more posts by Matthew Perpetua Filed Under: endorsements , against me! , gg allin , green day , jay leno , murder junkies , punk rock , sum 41

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Big Boi Goes Bowling in His ‘General Patton’ Video

It seems Big Boi would be a wonderful person to have on one’s bowling team. ( Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty comes out July 6 — and the Fader ‘s got a “General Patton” MP3, if you’d like.) [ World Star Hip Hop ] Read more posts by Edith Zimmerman Filed Under: music , big boi , clickables , music video , Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty , video

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Leaked: M.I.A. Brings the Noise

M.I.A., ///Y/ Official release date: July 13 The Verdict: As it turns out, Diplo was right : A lot of M.I.A.’s new album actually does sound kinda like Skinny Puppy! Judging by the leak of ///Y/ currently spreading around the Internet, the album is mainly comprised of extremely grating, quasi-industrial noise paired with stiff beats and M.I.A.’s menacingly nasal voice. In the abstract, that’s pretty cool, but the reality of the album is that it is very light on the sort of weapons-grade pop hooks that made her last two records so bold and exciting.

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Rendering plists from your Rails app

Jeena emailed me recently about his Rails plugin, plistifier , that allows you to render plists (property lists). It allows you to render your ActiveRecord objects as plists (among other things): def show @post = Post.find(params[:id]) respond_to do |format| format.xml { render :x ml => @post } format.plist { render :plist => @post } end end Jeena was kind enough to let me know he “stole” my old Jsonifier plugin ( github ) code in plistifier

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SharePoint whitepaper on co-authoring & OneNote notebooks

I wanted to point out a few links for all of the SharePoint admins & deployment folks out there: Co-authoring overview (SharePoint Server 2010) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff718249.aspx Co-authoring administration (SharePoint Server 2010) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff718235.aspx Configure versioning for co-authoring (SharePoint Server 2010) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff718246.aspx Configure the co-authoring versioning period (SharePoint Server 2010) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff718243.aspx Configure the maximum number of co-authoring authors (SharePoint Server 2010) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff718248.aspx Disable co-authoring (SharePoint Server 2010) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff718245.aspx