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Extra, Extra: Hotmail User Gets Thousands Of Random Emails Because Of Gmail Glitch
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Ben Yakas
Published Jan 24, 2014
Modified Jan 24, 2014
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Published Jan 24, 2014
Modified Jan 24, 2014
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- Jemima Kirke of Girls explores gender bias in the art world.
- The rise and fall of "that's what she said" jokes.
- Read Allen Ginsberg's final poem.
- David S. Peck, who has a hotmail account, has received thousands of emails due to a Gmail glitch.
- Vice writer moves from East Village to Brooklyn, then discovers he hates Brooklyn.
- Learn far more than you ever wanted to know about the "sex lives" of tweens.
- E-cigs are big hits in rural jails.
- A manhole explosion on the Upper East Side torched a Mercedes and a brownstone.
- Kids, don't snort Smarties unless you want to risk getting nasal maggots.
- And finally, very smart Border Collie is very smart indeed:
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