Mentions — November 21, 2012, 3:12 pm
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In her recent New York Times profile of Mark Crispin Miller, a professor of media studies at NYU and a longtime contributor to Harper’s Magazine, Ariel Kaminer discusses Miller’s drive to promote electoral integrity, an effort she notes gained significant traction with the cover story he wrote for Harper’s in August 2005, “None Dare Call It Stolen.”
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A Singaporean company unveiled Kissenger, a pair of plastic lips mounted on a large plastic egg, which transmits real-time interactive kisses to a distant lover. “I am not interested in the sexual uses for it,” said the device’s inventor. “We’ve taken several steps to minimize the creepiness.”
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