"ski-jump" Articles & Blogs:
Vile Poster of the Day: Centurion
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Got this in my email this morning and it was enough to make me gag. Could her boobs be any bigger?
Yuck. Vile. You have to jump to look at it because I don’t want it on my home page.
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Palins and Friends in the News: Levi’s Illogical Book Cover, Bristol’s Facial Surgery
| Significant Palin-related personal-appearance news this morning. Which would you like to hear first, Levi or Bristol? Levi? Personally, that would not have been our choice, but O.K. Lo, the cover for Levi Johnston’s forthcoming memoir, Deer in the Headl...[Read on] |
Rebecca Hamilton Reads from Fighting For Darfur
| After the Rwandan genocide in 1994, millions of people around the world responded to the mass atrocity, vowing “never again,” only to learn about a horrific wave of killings in Darfur—a region in western Sudan—nine years later. In ...[Read on] |
Mika Brzezinski Reads From Knowing Your Value
| In her new book, Knowing Your Value: Women, Money, and Getting What You’re Worth (Weinstein Books), journalist Mika Brzezinski—Joe Scarborough’s co-host on MSNBC’s Morning Joe—traces her unconventional career path, addressing...[Read on] |
Do the Balloon People Have a Right to Publicity?
| The boy in the balloon or, as it were, the boy not in the balloon, is a publicity stunt which has many people outraged, questioning the sanity of the boy’s father, the intelligence of the media, and the values of a media-driven culture. But other than t...[Read on] |
What's on Chloë Sevigny's Vanity Table?
| Left: Kiehl's Limited Edition Rare Earth Deep Pore Cleansing Masque with labels designed by Dexter's Michael C. Hall and Big Love's Chloë Sevigny. Right: The actress at the April 7 launch event for the collection in Santa Monica, California. By Joe S...[Read on] |
Ski Jumpers Jump Through Hoops
| Ski jumper Jessica Jerome. Photographs by Mia Tran. The free-flowing rum drinks helped you handle the many incongruities earlier this week on the third floor of Norwood, a private club in downtown New York City, but disparities were still pretty acute. In...[Read on] |
Limbaugh: "I love the women's movement, especially when walking behind it."
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Ah, Rush Limbaugh. Always so charming.
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Transcript after the jump.
Thanks to Think Progress, who also point out that Limbaugh held a "Female Summit" to find out how he could "own women."
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Saturday Reading: What if "The Expendables" Were Women
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From FlavorWire
The Expendables opens today, and if you didn’t know already, it’s an action movie that features a leather bag brimming with bundled cash, a helpless woman with an accent, and lots of bad-ass dudes dressed in black running around kill...[Read on] |
Bristol Palin: Don't get pregnant unless you're privileged
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Bristol Palin has shot a new PSA for the abstinence pushing and just generally creepy Candie's Foundation. And it is so not OK:
Transcript after the jump.
Even entertainment website E! Online recognizes that this add is messed up, saying the message is...[Read on] |
Crush of the Week: Lady Sovereign
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I went to see Lady Sovereign in concert on Wednesday, and all I can say is that this woman is off the hook! The rapper (and a self-proclaimed feminist, I might add) from the UK is gritty, enthralling and powerful and I loved every minute of her performa...[Read on] |
Infographic: How the Automotive Industry is Embracing Social Media
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At AskPatty, we keep a keen eye on social media as it relates to the auto industry, and it looks like we're not the only ones. Social media is an interesting venue - success here is not gained by spending money on ads - the big gains here come from out-t...[Read on] |
Book Review: 13 Little Blue Envelopes
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Author: Maureen Johnson
Pages: 368
Date Started: 8/1/10
Date Finished: 8/4/10
Simple Summary: Dead Aunt Meg sends shy Ginny gallivanting across Europe through thirteen little blue envelopes. Awkward flirting and adventures may occur.
Rating: ★★★★...[Read on] |
Madeleine Stowe trades acting for directing
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Madeline Stowe best known for her role in The Last of the Mohicans has been sitting on a script she wrote for over five years because she hoped to star in it. She wrote Unbound Captives under the pseudonym OC Humphrey with her husband Brian Benben back ...[Read on] |
Early Oscar Prediction—Best Directress: Kathryn Bigelow
| Oscar season generally begins after the Toronto International Film Festival, once the bulk of prestige films have screened for critics and picked up distributors, leaving only a handful of latecomers to tip the balance. (This year, these known unknowns in...[Read on] |
Happy to Introduce: Smart Jumper Cables!
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Today's cars are very complex. If the battery of your car dies - you want to be very careful that you do the right thing! Here are four different ways you can charge the battery to get your car rolling down the road again.
1. Slowly charge the bat...[Read on] |
BarkBuckleUP Reviews the 2011 Jeep Patriot 4x4
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The 2011 Jeep Patriot 4x4 has been reviewed by pet travel safety experts (and AskPatty.com partner & contributor) Bark Buckle UP and put to the test with Betty & Princess (dogs) on city streets, highways and dirt roads. In their two part video review, ...[Read on] |
Girls, Inc. Orange County: They sure are strong, smart and bold
| Last Tuesday I had the pleasure of meeting with 30 or 40 girls ages 5 to 11 at Girls, Inc. of Orange County. What I had planned was to show them the video of the 2004 US Olympic Trials steeplechase, talk about believing in yourself and dealing with advers...[Read on] |
Don't get caught out in the cold with a dead car battery!
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When the temperatures dip below 0-degrees F, my auto repair shop receives early morning phone calls crying for 'help' because of cars not starting. Here are some illuminating statistics by the Battery Council International that explain why so many car bat...[Read on] |
Happy π Day!
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Today is 3/14, or π Day to the mathematically minded. That's π, or Pi, which some of you will undoubtedly recall from your high school geometry classes - it's an irrational number that is famously approximated at 3.14 - but in reality, the number doe...[Read on] |
Limbaugh Reaches a New Low
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Via Media Matters, I wasn't shocked to find that Rush Limbaugh was happy to mock the White House appointment of Adviser on Violence Against Women Lynn Rosenthal, but felt it necessary to point out his thoughts on what one who occupies the appointment woul...[Read on] |
Do you have a top dog? You could win from Bark Buckle UP!
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Our good friend Christina Selter the Pet Safety Lady is going to the New York International Auto Show, and she wants to take all your pets with her - in photo form, at least.
Bark Buckle UP is hosting an online "Top Dog" photo contest at the 2011 New Y...[Read on] |
2009 WNBA Draft: A journey back to my love for women’s basketball
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I’ve played basketball my entire life.
Ever since I was little, l knew that I loved the game. From eighth grade all the way through graduation from my NCAA Division III college, I pretty much obsessed over rankings, new prospects and players of the wee...[Read on] |
The Social Media Landscape and SEO
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Did you know that your Facebook and Twitter pages can improve your organic search results? Or that Digg is proving to be a valuable tool for traffic generation? Both are true, according to CMO.com's Social Media Landscape for 2011.
Ask Patty loves S...[Read on] |
Not Oprah's Book Club: Along for the Ride
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Talking about this book today. Transcript after the jump!
<p>Hi everybody! I'm Miriam and I'm doing this week's Not Oprah's Book Club. I'm standing in for Courtney because I wanted to talk...[Read on] |
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