Don't leave your computer without reading about: the John Edwards sex tape, now mercifully blocked from public release; how not to commit adultery with someone who is running for president; Christopher Hitchens vs. Gore Vidal; Andy Samberg as Rahm Emanuel delivering a heartfelt apology to Sarah Palin; karaoke killings in the Philippines.
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Don't leave your computer without reading about: mmm… Selleck Waterfall Sandwiches; Harper's web editor weighing in on paywalls; Hugo Chavez's hate-on for Twitter; great architectural failures; the cost of a celebrity fashion-show appearance.
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Don't leave your computer without reading about: Jon Stewart vs. Bill O'Reilly = the new Siskel & Ebert?; a video preview of The Sarah Silverman Show's new season; the most hilarious political attack-ad ever made; Sheila Heti on self-help books you needn't be ashamed of; and four words we never thought we'd have occasion to write again — new bookstore in Toronto.
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Don't leave your computer without reading about: Lady Gaga — definitely penis-free; how to look like a slumming movie star; Detroit Art City; Guantánamo suicides; Mildred's Temple Kitchen opening its bathroom doors to Valentine's Day fornicators.
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Don't leave your computer without reading about: pleasant Oscar-nomination surprises; Obama's plan to repeal "don't ask, don't tell"; Amazon's overpriced ebooks; the Mad Men cast's off-season beards.
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Don't leave your computer without reading about: Pink going naked at the Grammys; Chris Matthews going post-racial on MSNBC; Obama unleashing rhetorical violence on dumbfounded Republicans  Fucked Up vs Rolling Stone lawsuit extinguished; Rip Torn; Harper's magazine editor's unceremonious dismissal.
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Don't leave your computer without reading about: contraband chickens invading Canada!; Gawker's treasury of celebrity-mom advice; the life and death of RIAA-defying @diditleak creator Alan Carton; Kate Moss going grey; John Heilemann's Game Change.
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Don't leave your computer without reading about: the death of literary great/notorious recluse J.D. Salinger; the arrival of the iPad; confronting your own racism; Lady Gaga reviewed in performance-art format; Andy Samberg gets his shorts fed to him.
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Don't leave your computer without reading about: Esquire's divisive Jay-Z profile; the coolest 79-year-old jewel thief in the world; the newest terrorist weapon — pies; unhappy hipsters; Repo Chick!
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Don't leave your computer without reading about: Kate McGarrigle commemorated in lovely comic form; the enduring awesomeness of the WFMU blog, the New York Times' Sandra Tsing Loh and James Wood, and This Ain't the Rosedale Library.
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Don't leave your computer without reading about: Brendan Fraser's Golden Globes clap: The Remix; Facebook settings you should really keep an eye on; The London Review of Books' $50-million debt; Charlie Sheen getting a better deal than Chris Brown; Conan O'Brien's final Tonight Show monologue.
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Don't leave your computer without reading about: how Italians really feel about Jersey Shore guidos/guidettes; Conan O'Brien's promise to NBC; how being a couch potato might kill you; and how men screw it all up.
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Don't leave your computer without reading about: the death of writer and musician Paul Quarrington; Conan O'Brien's official departure from NBC; Vice and CNN making strange bedfellows; Regine Chassagne of the Arcade Fire on the earthquake in Haiti; finding yourself at 25.
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Don't leave your computer without reading about: Rufus Wainwright's tribute to his mother, Kate McGarrigle; 20 great things about dating a writer; the hilarious and brilliant and hilariously brilliant Mary HK Choi; Heidi Montag's asymmetrical face; Nina Garcia being a bitch.
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Don't leave your computer without reading about: the recent outbreak of penis-breaking in Jamaica caused by too much daggerin'; Kate Moss' engagement to Kills guitarist Jamie Hince; the New York Times' new online pay model; Kathleen Hanna's donation to NYU; and yet another reason to gaze longingly at Christina Hendricks' cleavage.
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Don't leave your computer without reading about: Brendan Fraser, Tina Fey and Drew Barrymore's Golden Globes gaffes; Toronto Star report Joanna Smith's Tweets from Haiti; Slate.com's love for Vancouver; Elizabeth Gilbert making peace with the concept of marriage.
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Don't leave your computer without reading about: Conan O'Brien — not actually funny?; Le Blog De Betty; lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg's bizarre self-assassination plot in Guatelmala; New York's undergraduate-media-intern-underclass requesting a do-over on the 2000s; British police finding novel new uses for riot shields.
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Don't leave your computer without reading about: unreadable metal band logos, actor Jesse Eisenberg in Heeb magazine; SpeakerText — the future of video transcriptions; Haiti's now-homeless president.
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Don't leave your computer without reading about: Patti Smith's upcoming memoir about life with Robert Mapplethorpe; new weekly city site Yonge Street; the Hottest Heads of State; the lure of dating ex-lesbians; the surreal life of Rodarte's Mulleavy sisters.
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Don't leave your computer without reading about: the totally shocking decision by Sarah Palin to join the Fox News team; the totally shocking admission from Mark McGwire that he used steroids; the totally shocking revelation that Al Gore is a bit of a nerd; and a totally hilarious Facebook war.
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Don't leave your computer without reading about: the new life of freelance writers in a print-is-dead era; non-lame ecards; the biggest Avatar spoiler ever; Jay Leno's talk-show failure.
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Don't leave your computer without reading about: Tila Tequila's insane farewell to wifey Casey Johnson; V magazine's size issue; Enzo Di Matteo's gay Giambrone gaffe; Aziz Ansari's interview with Animal Collective; Roger Ebert's brave new world.
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Don't leave your computer without reading about: Gawker's Obama Hotties 2010 update; job interview do's and don'ts; breaking up in the digital age; al-Qaida = overrated?; "10 killer DIY projects for your extra day off."
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Don't leave your computer without reading about: Twitter celebrities (not to be confused with actual celebrities); how to lose your idealism in 10 years; indie rockers entering the Stephen Harper prorogue debate; 50 tawdry tidbits on Nigella Lawson.
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Don't leave your computer without reading about: former Time Warner CEO Jerry Levin's corporate mea culpa; the uselessness of Twitter; Kelly Cutrone — "The Dark Angel of The Hills"; the death of the Pez-dispenser inventor; voyeurism jerk-off on The Selby.
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Don't leave your computer without reading about: the G-spot myth debunked; advice for a better life; Formspring.Me — the hot new shit in social networking; Jonathan Safran Foer on eating animals; and Clay Shirky's virtual university.
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We asked various Toronto art-scene luminaries — including Owen Pallett, Thunderheist's Isis Salam, Fucked Up's Damian Abraham, designer Jeremy Laing, author Pasha Malla and many more — how they'll resolve to make themselves a better person in 2010. Here's what you can hold them to.
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It’s time, friendlings! The Required Reading Year in Review. Herewith our top players: the most-linked-to, the most-dependable, the most-recurring websites of 2009. ...more

Don't leave your computer with reading about: Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar's Almanac of Human Emotion; "Books You Can't Live Without"; Cadence Weapon and Todor Kobakov hitting The Mark; "freeing yourself from oppression by technology"; and "How Should Fiction Be Read?"
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Don't leave your computer with reading about: why we fight with our siblings; Girls Gone Wild founder/capital-D Douchebag Joe Francis' war on Gawker; holiday hangovers; Tyra Banks' self-cancellation; Christmas excess unwrapped in Hank Stuever's Tinsel.
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Don't leave your computer with reading about: more crazy Facebook facts; Jersey Shores and "The Rise of the Guido"; Sandra Bernhard's life in survey form; Yancey Strickler's list to end all lists; and an oldie but goodie from Susan Orlean.
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Don't leave your computer with reading about: Gawker's vote for Hipster of the Decade; Rachel Zoe and the celebrity-style renaissance; the fashionable Mark Fast; The Onion News Network on the dangers of "getting stoked"; and an epic Vice interview with David Simon on The Wire.
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Don't leave your computer with reading about: celebrity Twitter reaction to Brittany Murphy's death; the rise and fall of home-decor retailer Design Within Reach; the incomparable cool of Rashida Jones; an unbelievably bizarre Toronto true-crime story; Regrettheerror.com's year in fact-checking.
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Don't leave your computer with reading about: Torontoist's "Heroes and Villains" of 2009; more on the Courtney Love vs. Frances Bean Cobain battle; the Jersey Shore nickname generator; Stephen Harper shitting the bed in Copenhagen; and why Elle is swell.
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Don't leave your computer without reading about: the Facebook privacy settings you just lost; the Times on Vogue Creative Director Grace Coddington; the Night Chef breaks into La Palette; Indian sect members vowing to marry sex workers; Frances Bean Cobain vs. Courtney Love — WTF; Jessica Simpson dating Billy Corgan — double WTF.
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Don't leave your computer without reading about: Geek Culture, explained in handy diagram form; unleashing your inner Jackson Pollock; Nickelback — band of the decade?; Times critic Manohla Dargis on the sorry state of cinema; The Hipster Mom; and Silvio Berlusconi's war on the internet. ...more

Don't leave your computer without reading about: the Huffington Post's new tweets-for-cash scheme; Gawker on the Fucked Up charity single; Eliot Spitzer's favourite escort, Ashley Dupre, dishing out sex advice in the New York Post; Rihanna naked in GQ; coconut-wielding octopi.
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Don't leave your computer without reading about: the New York Times perfecting style reporting to a T; Canadian science-fiction writer Peter Watts' US border nightmare; Barack Obama's less-than-remarkable Nobel Peace Prize speech; Fake Leah McLaren vs. Real Leah McLaren; the power of pink.
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Don't leave your computer without reading about: Jersey Shore-isms, Colin Firth on Tom Ford, gay metal, gadgetry and passive aggressive notes.
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Don't leave your computer without reading about: Prime Minister Pete Nice's sports-memorabilia collection (seriously!), giving up the war on drugs, dumb cheaters,  Rolling Stone's decade-in-review lists and Reatard-ed violence.
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Don't leave your computer without reading about: the 10,000 mile diet; Time magazine's top 10 of everything for 2009; revisionist KISS-tory; crappy library books; and winter (ugh).
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Don't leave your computer without reading about: Planet Facebook; Naked Lunch turning 50; food fighting with Sarah Palin; Pitchfork's indie-rock photography; and John Lorinc on architecture fetishism.
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Don't leave your computer without reading about: the biggest copyright infringement suit in Canadian history — filed against the major labels!; Too Much Joy finding no joy in their digital-royalty statements; the Big Bop shutting down; Philly avant-acoustic guitarist Jack Rose, R.I.P.; and the most famous penis in all of Peterborough.
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Don't leave your computer without reading about: Rolling Stone — the restaurant?; the Times on the benefits of file-sharing; Mandy Kaling and Brent Forrester's The Low Self Esteem of Lizzy Gillespie; the real reason why The Office is depressing; the National Geographic on light pollution.
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Don't leave your computer without reading about: Elizabeth Weil's brave take on marriage in the New York Times Sunday magazine; Friendster is BACK!; Wikipedia losing its helpers; the "breast-cancer industrial complex"; emails from crazies.
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Don't leave your computer without reading about: Meredith Baxter — a.k.a. Family Ties' Mrs. Keaton — coming out of the closet on the Today show; Casey Johnson — still batshit crazy; Canada's enviro record getting slammed in The Guardian; the National Post giving Torontoist and BlogTO a dual hand job; the New York Times' David Carr on the state of New York media; and Carles of Hipster Runoff retiring?
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Don't leave your computer without reading about: food blogs SNACKATTACK and the Knowledge for Thirst; Ariel Levy's insane Caster Semenya profile in the New Yorker; the "mommy hate" phenomenon; the new Nabokov; and Cary Tennis' quality quarterlife-crisis advice.
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Don't leave your computer without reading about: more wise web philosophy from Seth Godin; the death of the Dubai dream; Lady Gaga leaving 'em "Speechless" at the MOCA in L.A.; Pulp Fiction screenwriter Roger Avary going to jail for real; and the Great White North succumbing to global warming.
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Don't leave your computer without reading about: Jason Reitman; Jessica Hagy's Venn diagrams; Simon Reynolds' hip-hop year-in-review in The Guardian; TMI culture; Edith Zimmerman on the art of relaxing.
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Don't leave your computer without reading about: sex! Specifically, a response to Torontoist's response to our recent Love and Sex column; how rape functions between young women and older men; and Sasha Grey's best body part, her face.
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