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How AP’s ‘conditions for accuracy’ protected it from false Paterno, Giffords death reports | Poynter.

At around 9 p.m. on Saturday night, the AP newsroom was abuzz with reports on Twitter and elsewhere that former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno had died. AP associate managing editor Ted Anthony had been tracking the story of Paterno's health since the afternoon, and he sent an email to roughly a dozen AP supervisors to make sure no one jumped the gun and declared Paterno dead.

State Of The Union Drinking Game 2012

Oh, hello, everyone! As you no doubt already know, President Barack Obama will be delivering his State Of The Union address Tuesday night on the teevee. And we know that many of you may choose to use this occasion to get somewhat "chemically altered." We can't blame you!

Rick Santorum Says The Left Uses Colleges For 'Indoctrination'

According to Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, America has lost not only its entertainment industry, but also its higher education system. "Higher education was the first to go, a long time ago," he said. While speaking at the First Baptist Church in Naples, Florida on Wednesday, Santorum claimed that the Left uses universities to "indoctrinate" young people for the end purpose of maintaining power.

Bone Luge: The New Drinking Fad Food Writers Love To Hate: Gothamist

The "ice luge" booze delivery system is so over (John Cusack proves this in Hot Tub Time Machine by doing a beer luge in the Reagan era). These days it's all about the bone luge. That's where you (or someone you judge) eat the marrow out of an animal bone, thus creating a channel for a bartender to pour the booze (or blood?)

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100 Years Later: The Evolution of the NYC Subway Map

If you've lived in the Big Apple for any amount of time, you've more than likely taken the Subway. You've also probably wasted plenty of time staring at the map. Our video editor Matt Toder threw together a video of the Subway map's evolution, beginning with a map crafted 100 years ago.

Nadal vs. Federer comes one round early - am New York

Picture this: Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal meet at net following another classic Grand Slam match - one victor, one vanquished. What comes next? A ceremony, of course, with a trophy for the winner (typically Nadal) and some kind of ignomious commemorative runner-up plate for the losing rival.

Mayors of NYC and Boston Make Super Bet on Super Bowl: Gothamist

Mayor Bloomberg and Mayor Thomas Menino of Boston are putting it all on the line for Sunday's Super Bowl. After winning the awful bet from Green Bay, Bloomberg has a lot more riding on the line when the Giants face off against the Patriots this weekend.

No. 7 train extension may be delayed for months - am New York

The extension of the No. 7 train to the Far West Side of Manhattan could be months behind schedule, the MTA official overseeing the project said Monday. Problems have slowed down the project to extend the line to 34th Street and 11th Avenue from its current endpoint of Times Square, MTA capital construction president Michael Horodniceanu said during the agency's transit committee meeting Monday.

Eating Disorders And The Fear Of The Ordinary « Thought Catalog

In graduate school, we have this thing we call "imposter syndrome" - the gnawing fear that you don't really belong there, that you don't have what it takes, that you somehow slipped through the cracks in the admissions process and are actually an intellectual embarrassment, an incompetent fraud who knows jack-all about anything - and that sooner or later, like the Wizard of Oz, you will be found out and exposed for the humbug you really are.

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Restaurant Honors Martin Luther King with Brunch Deal

Monday, January 16, 2012, by Amanda Kludt The above poster, via EV Grieve, is hanging in the window of East Village 24-hour spot 7A Cafe. · Noted [EVG]

Exclusive: PATH hub at WTC is behind schedule again, feds say - am New York

Progress on the PATH's transit hub at the World Trade Center has fallen even farther behind, according to documents obtained by amNewYork, and the Federal Transit Administration now says it won't be finished until May 2015 -- and that's being optimistic.

S'MAC Slinging Addictive Mac & Cheese In Park At Houston and First: Gothamist

The kiosk in that little park at First Avenue and Houston, which was formerly occupied by Veselka and, before that, a forgettable coffee spot, has now been taken over by S'MAC. It's the first expansion for the wildly popular mac 'n' cheese restaurant, which for years has been doing brisk business a bit further north on 12th Street.

The Gmail Logo Was Designed the Night Before Gmail Launched

Jan 25 2012, 4:01 PM ET Ever leave an assignment until the night before it was due? You're in good company. According to a post on Quora from former Google designer Kevin Fox, Googler Dennis Hwang was up late the night before Gmail launched, working on the email service's logo.

The Party Girl’s Pros And Cons Of Getting Pregnant « Thought Catalog

Why it's awesome: It's like in sci-fi movies when someone adds a tiny component to the dead spaceship that's been sitting in someone's garage and suddenly everything springs to life and there all these lights and bleep bloops and mechanisms firing and everyone's like "Jesus, look at what it can do!

Some Spelling Lessons by The Oatmeal

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Behind Photographs, A Series of Portraits of Famous Photographers Posing With Their Iconic Photos

By EDW Lynch on January 23, 2012 Famous photographers pose with their favorite or most iconic photo in the "Behind Photographs" portrait series by Tim Mantoani (see the behind-the-scenes video). The series is available as a photo book. There are 1468 blog posts on Laughing Squid written by EDW Lynch.

At least six arrested during Occupy Wall Street protest - am New York

At least six Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested near Union Square Monday afternoon as they held a rally demanding governmental intervention to help lower unemployment rates in New York. "We're clearly facing a jobs emergency in New York," said protest organizer Tony Murphy, who was one of four people to later be arrested for trespassing in a nearby Bank of America.

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