Thursday, May 06, 2010

Mac Love

Great news for those too lazy to pull themselves away from their super-sleek, powerful computers to actually socialize. There's a new dating site - exclusively for Mac users, launching in June 2010. According to Apple, "Cupidtino is a beautiful new dating site created for fans of Apple products by fans of Apple products! Why? Diehard Mac & Apple fans often have a lot in common – personalities, creative professions, a similar sense of style and aesthetics, taste, and of course a love for technology..." and a fear of physical contact with actual human beings. (Okay, I added that last bit.)    

This comes hot on the heels of the NYU study which notes, unprompted, Apple was listed as the No. 1 brand among Gen Yers, alongside Chanel and BMW. 

Have fun with that dating pool. 

Tuesday, May 04, 2010

Nu au Plateau de Sculpteur Busts $100 Million Mark


Picasso's "Nu au Plateau de Sculpteur," a painting that was created in a single day in March 1932, broke the world record for the price of a single work of art. The piece fetched $106.5 million at Christie's in an auction that lasted eight minutes and six seconds. 


In March, the New York Times reported that the painting was expected to sell for "more than $80 million" and experts expected it to break the $100 million mark. Picasso did not disappoint, proving 37 years after his death, he's still the man.