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Hot Building
An office tower peppered with Wi-Fi hubs, as opposed to a single hot spot. The free Internet access is a strategy for attracting tenants to commercial real estate.
Lipstick Indicator
The jump in sales of affordable luxury items, such as cosmetics, before or during a recession.
Recreational Genomics
Using a home DNA sampler to determine your racial ancestry. You send a cheek swab in for a lab test that pinpoints, say, the proportion of African to Indo-European genes in your system. DNAPrint, a company in Sarasota, Florida, sells the kit and service for $158.
Schtupperware Party
A sex-ed salon where women gather over cocktails and hors d'oeuvres to shop for sex toys. As New York magazine noted: "If the Tupperware party was the girls' night of the '70s, today's girls' night is the schtupperware party, where participants test vibrators instead of burp plastic."
Word Burst
A sudden spike in the use of a word, name, or phrase, especially online. Example: "William Shatner" zoomed after the actor's rendition of "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" was voted worst Beatles cover of all time.
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Phonecam Nation
When Mutant Microbes Attack
Doctoring Your Food
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When They Talk Tech, DC Listens
Is This a Real Jackson Pollock?
Spoofing Big Brother With Spam
Semi Automatic
High-Performance Artist
The DVD Wars, Blow by Blow
In Power Circles, Thin Is In
The Search Engine That Could
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