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Reporters, Meet Facebook

Questions and answers for journalists navigating walls, pokes, friend lists, and groups about threesomes to find stories.

Science

Staying Awake by Switching Brain Hemispheres

New sleep-deprivation record holder Tony Wright tells Gelf he's altered his brain chemistry and thus can stay up indefinitely.

Nightlife

Searching for Johnny Salami

The perfectly-named Satin Dolls patron told a Reuters reporter that the enigmatic ending to 'The Sopranos' "left us hanging." Then, he disappeared. Gelf went looking for him.

Internet

Farking up the Media

Drew Curtis, the man behind weird-news site Fark.com, tells Gelf how the media has devolved into crap.

Media

Taking Aim at a Giant Hog

Rhonda Shearer took on a tale of boy-shoots-wild hog as part of her effort to clean up stinky journalism and restore the beautiful truth.

Science

Money-Grubbing

An interview with the scientist who demonstrated that splitting a restaurant bill reveals people's innate greed.

Internet

Between Barack and a MySpace

Obama campaign staffers bungled their candidate's social networking strategy by staging a hostile takeover of Joe Anthony's popular fan site for the senator.

Books

Toilet Talk

An interview with the excrement experts behind the new book, 'What's Your Poo Telling You?'

Arts

Irony, to a T

How we got from the earnest "Dew it with Dewey" shirt of the 1940s to the "I'm getting really good at masturbating" one of today.

Internet

Walking the Line on Blogging Ethics

Ed Shull says his company has found a way for bloggers to get paid for writing about advertisers without undermining their integrity. Gelf isn't so sure the results meet that ideal.

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