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" The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom."
-Jon Stewart.

I'm Lizbeth. I'm a die hard Yankees fan and will only watch baseball with a Mets fan during a Subway Series. I eat, sleep, breath, drink and love the internet. If I could marry the internet. I wouldn't, but I would consider it for a week.

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Cheesecake Video: A Wonderful New YouTube Trend

Video Games – Former Gawker editor Joshua David Stein has uncovered a fabulous new YouTube game. Namely, dudes filming their girlfriends playing with a Nintendo Wii Hula Hoop game. Those crazy kids! After the jump, Joshua's, and a lot of people's, fave.

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Paris Hilton -- Free Woman

Celebrities – TMZ has learned that Paris Hilton has not only had her sentence cut short, she is already out of jail! Unimpeachable sources tell TMZ the deal was sealed yesterday, and that Hilton made her exit early early this morning.

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'Crazy Love' revisits one of New York's most famous - and famously twisted - love stories

Love & Personals – Spend some time with Burt and Linda Pugach in their cramped Queens apartment, and it's hard to believe their lives were fodder for one of the juiciest stories ever splashed across the front page of a New York City tabloid.

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EMI's DRM-free catalog may arrive this week on iTunes

Gadgets & Tech – Well, if you've been waiting for the DRM-free tracks, you're in luck, because apparently Apple can and will deliver them by the end of May, according to MacBidouille's sources. Tag: DRM-free

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O'Donnell quits U.S. talk show early after spat - washingtonpost.com

Celebrities – Combative U.S. talk show host Rosie O'Donnell has decided to leave ABC's "The View" early after an on-air spat with Elisabeth Hasselbeck over the Iraq war that aired repeatedly on cable TV, the network said on Friday.

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What's Love Got to Do With It? - New York Times

Love & Personals – Should you ever feel that your relationship is strange, it could never be any stranger than this love story that has spanned many dysfunctional decades.

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Does My Boy Really Want to Be a Girl?

Family – Should you be concerned that my four-year-old son says he wants to be a girl?

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Unintended Consequences of Hyperhydration

Do No Evil – It's easy to find, in the mightily expanding iconography of American waste, the monumental (a ziggurat of flattened cars), the sinister (ocher sludge foaming on a riverbank) and the sublime (a plastic bag fluttering in a Japanese maple). The empty bottle and crushed aluminum can are none of these. They are almost too commonplace to notice.

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Japanese taste nostalgia in adult candy shops

Health & Fitness – Tokyo's all-you-can-eat "dagashi" or "cheap candy" bars make one childhood fantasy come true, giving stressed-out Japanese a chance to relive the good old days when their biggest problem was deciding between fizzy sticks and sour plums.

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Paid vacation? U.S. workers have no guarantees

Careers & Jobs – While the French get 30 days of paid leave and most other Europeans receive at least 20, the country with the world's biggest economy does not guarantee workers a single day, researchers said. Most US firms do in fact give employees vacations, but the lack of government guarantees means one in four private-sector workers do not get paid leave.

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Movies Rated R for Smoking

Movies – A movie may be rated R for sex, violence, language and... smoking? That might be the case now that the Motion Picture Association of America announced Thursday that the depiction of smoking will be among the factors weighed when a rating is handed do

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Bjork enlists worldwide help on new album

Music – A yearning for adventure after having a baby and a trip to Mali inspired Icelandic singer Bjork to make "Volta," her sixth studio album which will be released on Tuesday.

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Postal rate hike causes owners to change mailing plans

Money – Most consumers will notice only a 2-cent increase in first-class stamps, to 41 cents. But extensive rate changes also will make it more expensive for businesses to send most of their letters and packages.

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Macworld: News: Flickr pushes Yahoo Photos out of the picture

Gadgets & Tech – To eliminate overlap in services, Yahoo will close its Yahoo Photos service in favor of photo sharing darling Flickr, acquired by Yahoo a little over two years ago and considered by many a pioneer of the Web 2.0 wave of Internet innovation.

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I Can Quit You Babe

Health & Fitness – Though more than half of all New York CIty smokers tried to quit smoking in the past year, 80% of them (about half a million people) lit up again within three months. While the average smoker tries to quit about 8-9 times before actually succeeding, nicotine replacement therapy has been shown to double one's chances.

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