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Years ago, few people conflated technical prowess with physical fitness. The archetypical techie of the early 90s, for instance, was Dennis Nedry, the portly computer programmer in Jurassic Park played by Wayne Knight, a.k.a. "Seinfeld‘s" Newman. In real life, tech titans like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs would never be mistaken for underwear models. Twenty years later, though the image of the Red Bull-fueled, pizza-consuming, pencil-necked techie lives on, it’s balanced by another strain: The tech Master of the Universe who is not only proficient in Objective-C, but can run a sub-3:30 marathon as well and regularly bikes hundreds of miles over the weekend. 
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An excerpt of an interview with Hillary Clinton is generating major buzz online over her sharp response to a moderator's question about her fashion sense.
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The Internet continued its new GIF (graphic interchange format) tradition during the Olympics Closing Ceremonies. What's a GIF, you ask? Well, click on the title of this story to watch Posh Spice dance - then not dance. Then not dance - and dance again.
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London, the host of the 2012 Olympic Summer Games, capped a fortnight of athletic achievements with a jukebox collection of songs and a marathon display of endearingly wacky stagecraft.
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Mitt Romney has an Olympic athlete in his family. It has four legs and gave Romney a $77,000 write-off on his 2010 taxes. You may have heard about Rafalca, the Romney-owned dressage horse that's going for the gold in London.
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The morning after Ryan Lochte won the first American gold medal of the London Olympics, Lochte's smile was plastered all over the internet and newspapers worldwide. In some of those photos — if you look close enough — you'll see he's wearing a stars-and-stripes, jewel-encrusted "grill" across his top row of teeth.
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Ride didn't hide the fact of her sexual orientation from her family and friends during her lifetime, anyway, nor did she want it hidden from from the public in her death.
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Ann Romney, wife of Mitt, goes Marie Antoinette one better when she refers to the 99% as "you people". New Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer's penchant for Chihuly glass sculptures, fashion and having the Killers perform live at her wedding are small potatoes compared to the Romneys' Swiss bank accounts, five homes and dressage hobby. You can get anything on the Internet (including your stolen car) forcing malls to get makeovers to compete with online shopping. This is what people are talking about online this week. Catch up with the 99%. Join the conversation.
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New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd weighs in on the latest diversion to get us to talk about anything except that Barack Obama is probably going to coast to a second term and pummel Mitt Romney in November's election. Last week's media dustup between Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen who said Romney's wife Ann (or @AnnDRomney, her nom de Tweet) "never worked a day in her life" sure has got people talking, but about the wrong things. Writes Dowd, "This latest kerfuffle is piffle, but it is another instance of Republicans dragging women back to the past to re-litigate issues they thought were long settled. Just as women had assumed their contraception rights were safe, they had considered the tiresome debate about working moms versus stay-at-home moms over.... For the most part, nobody’s casting aspersions on anybody else’s choices, which are often driven by economics. Women have so many choices that they’re overwhelmed by the stress of so many choices. The real issue is whether Mitt, a tycoon who has been swathed in an old-fashioned cocoon, understands the plight of working mothers and the rights of 21st-century women."
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If the Twitter reaction is any indication, Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) may have cost himself a Senate seat with his controversial comments about rape and pregnancy.
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Cute altar boy with six-pack abs, or mean-spirited misguided Ayn Rand fan? Online chatter about the GOP veep pick Paul Ryan is all over the place. Hillary Clinton is used to these fashionable, online media makeovers, but can Ryan stand the same scrutiny? Where were you when the Spice Girls reunited, Justin Bieber's Klout score dropped and cats first appeared on the Internet? Right here, reading the online media roundup, we hope!
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The London 2012 Olympics bid a British song-and-dance farewell Sunday night, but the memes spawned at the Games will live forever. Or at least until something else catches the Internet’s attention.
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Trying to keep the Republican veep pick a secret for as long as possible under current online media standards, Mitt Romney's campaign deserves some credit. Apparently, they hustled Rep. Paul D. Ryan out of the Wisconsin woods in a baseball cap and sunglasses. Democrats are often criticized for saying that Republicans are "uncool". Here's proving we're not all that biased - we give you the new Mr. Cool Disguise as worn by Republican VP hopeful Paul Ryan.
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Bruce Jenner is known to reality TV fans as the somewhat hapless step-Dad to the Kardashian clan. But long before Kris Kardashian and her brood came into his life, Jenner was the 1976 Olympic gold medal winner in the decathlon. He was known as "the greatest athlete in the world."
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Boy, does this Olympic gymnast love to take slightly NSFW (not-safe-for-work) photos of himself on his iPhone. And people thought his spread in the ESPN Body Issue was ridiculous. Give him a Olympic gold right now for athlete most in love with himself!
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Gonna go out on a limb here and predict this story - which officially hits the newstands tomorrow morning will be one Mitt Romney cannot recover from.
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It's hard to be courageous after you have died, but pioneering U.S. astronaut Sally Ride managed this with her posthumous coming out as being partnered with a woman for 27 years.
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Yahoo's latest CEO Scott Thompson has resigned over a phony college degree. He claimed to have received a degree in accounting and computer science from Stonehill College in 1978. While the accounting degree may be legit, the school did not offer a computer science degree until 1983.
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