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Some time ago we mentioned, in a listicle about obscure musical genres, our developing taste for Chiptune: music made with the primitive chips used in the first generation of videogame systems. With that in mind, the musical nerds over at Unreality have compiled a list of 10 Songs and Sounds from 8-Bit Nintendo Games.
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With an astute bit of trend-spotting, New York magazine’s Daily Intel blog chronicles the mustache’s recent crossover from fashionable facial hair faux-pas to mainstream viability and official acceptance (via a ground-testing period in hipster ugly-coolness).
Admittedly, Brad Pitt’s recent ’stache reveal (number three on Daily Intel’s slideshow) was predicted by Orlando Bloom’s (pictured at right), spotted [...]

In yesterday’s New York Times opinion piece on the Detroit auto industry, Mitt Romney went above and beyond to alienate the voters he failed to win over during this year’s Republican primaries (read: “not suburban”, “not rich”). Tapping into his insider knowledge as a car company president’s son, Romney’s main argument for letting Detroit’s Big [...]