Ypulse Essentials
Posted by anastasia on 06-16-2005
American Eagle to outfit 'Real World' (the castmembers of the "Real World Austin" will all be wearing…American Eagle) (Pittsburgh Business Times)
- Jumping on the Warped bandwagon (MasterCard, Cingular, Samsung, Dodge, Energizer and Winterfresh gum join the edgier brands as sponsors for this summer's tour) (AdFreak)
- She is what she is (rising hip-hop star M.I.A. has her own custom Reeboks) (Coolhunting)
- Barons of Dogtown (Contra Costa Times, reg. required, on how skateboarding has become a billion dollar industry)
- Indie bands forming listening parties (building their fan base Tupperware style) (Newsweek)
- Hip Hop gets in the game (great piece on how hip hop is making in-roads into video games — and not just as characters, but as game designers) (Philly.com, reg. required)
- The saddest story I've read lately (about Native American teen suicides) (Reuters)
- Abstinence ed changing how teens view teen sex (new study says it is impacting teen attitudes towards sex but not neccessarily their behavior – so they'll have it, not use protection and basically feel even worse about it) (FOX News)
- Comics taking off online (The Washington Post, reg. required, looks at how comic artists are using the Web to spread the laughs)
- Missing: Racial equality (lots of stories like this one on why young white people get more coverage when they go missing) (Chicago Sun Times)
- Violent media may change kids' brains (the first – and inconclusive – research showing a potential link between violent media and video games and violent behavior) (WebMD)
- Cases for a Cause (celebs design iPod cases to fight breast cancer and auction them off on Ebay – very cool) (via Trendcentral)
- Dial N for Napster (on your Ericsson phone…) (Digital Lifestyles)
- MTV and CBS split up (Zap2it.com)
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