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5 great Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder songs

A celebration of one great musical collaboration.

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Mark Zuckerberg marries longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan

Now that’s what you call a Facebook status update.

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Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius shouted down at commencement address

Graduates got their first real world lesson: there’s nothing that can’t be politicized.

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Web Wrap: ‘The Dictator’ banned, Facebook staff freaks out, and more links

Here’s a look at what’s going on out there today.

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Mixtape Madness: National Nurse Week mix

Nurse Appreciation Week was last week…better late than never.

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ITR: The next battleground in internet regulation

This December, the latest round of ITR revisions are up for debate in Dubai.

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Man pleads guilty to sewing son’s butt cheeks together

Teenage son with Chrohn’s Disease would not stop farting, apparently.

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Nice man buys entire Kmart, donates contents to charity

That’s a lot of bathing suits, patio furniture and laundry hampers to go around.

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Download Afghan Whigs ‘See and Don’t See’

The Afghan Whigs return today with a cover of a 1970s soul classic.

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Ian Curtis died 32 years ago today

On May 18, 1980, while at his house in Macclesfield, the Joy Division frontman watched “Stroszek,” listened to side one of “The Idiot,” and then hanged himself.

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Watch Stabil Elite ‘Expo’ video

Strange goings-on in this black and white music video.

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Mark Zuckerberg is now richer than Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin

Zuckerberg is now the wortld’s 29th richest person.

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Jack White will stop at nothing to get into the ‘Guinness World Records’ book

Jack White accepts the “Guinness” book’s retort by attempting a pretty unorthodox quantitative challenge.

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Black holes might create universes, says physicist

Learn how black holes might incubate baby universes.

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Twitter adopts Do Not Track feature for user privacy

Twitter moves ahead of Facebook again in matters of user privacy.

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Volkswagen advert shamelessly rips off Beach House

New ad makes a facsimile of “Take Care.”

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Mick Jagger to perform with Arcade Fire on SNL this Saturday

The veteran rocker sings with the Canadian indie hitmakers.

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Breitbart pushes Birther movement into extra innings

It sounds like a horror movie, and because it’s on Breitbart.com, it reads like one too.