Linkpile

• The Mayor of Sneakerdom: Village Voice cover story on sneakerheads.
• Recession Prompts Many Americans to Reduce Time Spent Volunteering, Study Finds: “Sixty-six percent of those surveyed said that, as a result of the recession, Americans were more concerned with looking out for themselves. Only 19 percent said people were doing more to help others. The findings amounted to what the report’s authors called ‘a civic depression.’” I thought we were finding new values? What happened to that?
• Ultimate Fighting magazine: To launch soon. Earlier: Consumed on mixed-martial arts “lifestyle” brands.
• Danielle Distefano: ‘100 Ladies’: Pretty great. I wanted the one in the wrestler mask, but it’s already sold.
• Device | Significant Objects: “Then we would return to our apartment, plug in the item pictured above, and stare at it transfixed until one or both of us passed out on the thrift-store couch, our nametags still affixed to our wrinkled knit shirts.” Story by Tom Bartlett.

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