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• What you don't know about strawberries; Yahoo! buys Tumblr; and the coolest things made of Legos

  Food Republic has a list of 14 things you didn't know about strawberries; Yahoo! buys Tumblr for $1.1 billion and promises not to ruin it; and cool stuff made from… Click to Continue...

• You can’t help fixating the things you fear; we can’t help telling you about them

  I’ve wagged my finger from time to time at those who accuse this newspaper of harping on negative or sensational news. The fact is, we devote quite a bit of… Click to Continue &...

• Candice wins but not everyone is impressed; Awesome 'Monsters, Inc.' shirts; and demystifying grits

  Candice Glover wins "American Idol" but her performances, this season of the show and its finale is slammed by The New York Times; Threadless' awesome "Monsters, Inc."...

• Mailbox app helps you manage your way to a clean inbox

  Mailbox, a new iPhone app, will bring your unwieldy email inbox under control. Click to Continue »

• Candice wows in finale; bacon dogs; and the ACLU wants to help marry two sitcom characters

  Candice wowed the judges in last night's finale; Oscar Mayer's new bacon dogs; and the ACLU wants Mitchell and Cameron from "Modern Family" to get married. Click to Continue...

• There are many things I don't understand, including barefoot running shoes

  At the risk of sounding arrogant, I consider myself a relatively bright guy. Click to Continue »

• News websites begin to tinker with per-click, iTunes-style story access

  If newspaper websites' move to paywalls and metered access has you in a tizzy, well, hold on to your hat. A la carte pricing could shake things up a bit… Click to Continue »...

• Flynt's criticism of Charleston newspapers puts First Amendment ignorance on display

  Larry Flynt was either feigning indignation or is utterly ignorant of First Amendment rights when he harangued two Charleston newspapers that refused to publish his endorsement of Mark Sanford...

• Content marketing gives newspapers new (corrupting?) way to sell content

  Traditional-media companies are good at delivering content that can inform readers' decisions. Commercializing that ability helps solve one problem for newspapers ... but could create another...

• New Hilton Head Island farmers market opens May 1

  Hilton Head has a farmers market again. Click to Continue »

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