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Hungry raccoons reclaim Brooklyn. Raccoons increasingly seen coming into yards, wading pools, attics, and through cat flaps. (0) 7/8/08

This month's Ad Age has a special 1960-themed section in honor of Mad Men. Includes winky articles like "U.S. Tobacco Companies Mark Record Year" and "Public Accepts Ads But Refuses to Pay For TV". [via fimoculous] (0) 7/8/08

Does the government owe royalties for music it plays to torture Guantanamo detainees? (0) 7/8/08

Profile of gynecologist who just opened a "pelvic fitness spa" to help ladies firm up their areas. She calls her exercises "the dental floss of feminine fitness". Which is a metaphor I'm trying not to visualize. (0) 7/2/08

Home-wreckers Robert Rodriguez and Rose McGowan have split up because she's not famous enough to star in his Barbarella remake. Is there any other way this relationship could possibly have ended? (0) 7/2/08

Another wacky Sherlock Holmes movie in the works: Sacha Baron Cohen as Holmes, Will Ferrell as Watson. Is this the same as the one Guy Ritchie's doing? (0) 7/2/08

Wow: Tricky and Tom Waits are talking about making an album together. (0) 7/1/08

Devo suing McDonald's over a Happy Meal doll, New Wave Nigel, that wears red flowerpot hat (0) 7/1/08

Did you know Tony Curtis is still alive? He's 83 and is in a new movie David & Fatima, an Israeli-Palestinian love story. Martin Landau is in it too. (0) 7/1/08

Surprising fact: half of gun deaths are suicides. (0) 6/30/08

Not-so-subtle Apple product placement in Wall-E. (0) 6/30/08

Times slideshow on Sunday's closing of Florent, the beloved Meatpacking diner. (0) 6/30/08

Swift boat vets want "Swift boat" to go back to being to a noun instead of a verb. (0) 6/30/08

Federal court quotes Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" to rule that a Chinese Muslim at Guantanamo is not an enemy combatant. Federal judge snark: "The fact that the government has 'said it thrice' does not make an allegation true." (0) 6/30/08

People who might not be so psyched about being in the NY Times: middle-aged people at the nude beach at Sandy Hook. "My husband would kill me," Kat said, mumbling, "First time ever in a nude beach and The New York Times comes." (0) 6/30/08

Michelle Obama speaks to Gay and Lesbian Leadership Council about Obama's fight for gay rights. M-bam drag shows are going to start up in DC any second now. (0) 6/27/08

Peter Travers at Rolling Stone starts the "Give Heath Ledger a posthumous Oscar" movement. (0) 6/27/08

Wired: Best robot love stories. In honor of good old-fashioned robot romance Wall-E, opening this week. (0) 6/26/08

Sebastian Bach says he's working on a "mind-blowing" project with Slash. Claims he's not the new singer for Velvet Revolver, but I'm going to bet he's the new singer for Velvet Revolver. (0) 6/26/08

Bad gym love: Brooklyn teacher played lights-out tag at junior high cheerleading practice, which quickly turned into grope-tag. He's getting fired. (0) 6/26/08

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