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Before Sex and the City’s Carrie Bradshaw, Samantha Jones, Miranda Hobbes, and Charlotte York tore up the town, there was Helen Gurley Brown, the real-life editor in chief of Cosmopolitan.

In this deliciously tantalizing book, Cosmo’s leading lady told women how to be glamorous and sophisticated and how to fill their lives with romance and delectable men. She showed women how to meet men and sweep them off their feet-all while looking and feeling fabulously sexy. Since that time, sexual attitudes may have changed, but the art of being a woman has not.

Still provocative after all these years, Brown celebrates the pleasures of flirting, of enjoying affairs from beginning to end, throwing brunches and dinner parties, finding men where you might not think to look, dating (and ditching) married men, and being both feminine and powerful.

It’s been over 40 years since Helen Gurley Brown’s Sex and the Single Girl sent shockwaves through American culture. How times have changed, or have they?

Helen Gurley Brown became the Editor-in-Chief of Cosmopolitan in 1965. For five years she was voted by World Almanac one of the 25 Most Influential Women in the U.S.

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Adbusters Issue 82, Endgame Strategies, all about tapping the revolutionary potential of Generation O, is hitting the newsstands now. Here’s a preview of what’s inside:

How Obama Carried Me Home
Frances McCaffery spent her whole life searching for political inspiration. When she joined Obama’s campaign, she finally found it.
They Believed, Why Can’t I?
A billboard by designer Alexander McQueen features an image of chic Parisians rebelling in 1968 and no sign of the actual product.
Pachamama: Rights for Nature
In an unprecedented move Ecuador recently passed constitutional amendments that enshrine rights for nature. In doing so the tiny nation has figured out a way, totally consistent with our Western legal platforms, to give earth and civilization a fighting chance.
A Crack in Capitalismo’s Façade
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa is breaking capitalism’s rules of conduct by defaulting on repayment of almost $4 billion in foreign debt. Declaring that the debt is immoral and illegal, Correa is pledging to deal with his country’s social debt before kowtowing to foreign creditors.
Not So Fast
Ziauddin Sardar explores the cultural, historical and spiritual significance of Ramadan.
Revolutionary Potential
Editor-in-Chief, Kalle Lasn, probes the latent potential for a replay of 60s-style insurrection in the streets of North America. Will Generation O rise to the challenge of the times?

8tracks is a simple way for people to share and discover music through an online mix. A mix is a short playlist containing at least 30 minutes — roughly 8 tracks — of music.

On 8tracks, people can do two things: listen to a mix, or create a mix. Listeners can search for a mix by artist or genre, stream it in a legal, radio-style manner, and follow others who make compelling mixes. DJs upload MP3s or select tracks from the 8tracks library to craft a playlist, add context with description and art, and publish their mix on 8tracks.com and a personal webpage.

Started in late summer 2008 Miju is the brainchild of Furni owner Mike Giles and his lovely lady friend and design champion Judy Lawrence.

The Wind Beneath by Miju is feather themed laser etched and cut pendants from 1/16″ acrylic. Black acrylic pendants come with bronze colored chain and white acrylic ones come with silver.

Inspired by President Dwight Eisenhower’s 1961 Farewell Address in which he warned Americans about the dangers of the “military-industrial complex“, filmmaker Eugene Jarecki weaves unforgettable stories of everyday Americans touched by war with commentary by a “who’s who” of military and Washington insiders.

WHY WE FIGHT reveals how political and corporate interest have become alarmingly entangle in the business of war.  On a deeper level, what emerges is a portrait of a nation in transition - drifting dangerously far from  her founding principles toward a more imperial and uncertain future.

“A machine that plays ALL the games us kids of the seventies, eighties and nineties have burned onto our retinas. Modern techniques, modern style, retro gaming and retro style are all blended together in Retro Space“.

Martin Koch - Creator

Russian novelist Pelevin’s chaotic latest examines contemporary Russia as viewed through the eyes of A. Hu-li, a 2,000-year-old werefox who is able to transform into a beautiful nymphet. The opening chapter is both an introduction to werefoxes as well as an account of how werefoxes, working as prostitutes, utilize their stunning looks to absorb a man’s life energy. Hu-li’s experiences are standard for an ancient werefox until she meets Alexander, an attractive Russian intelligence officer who happens to be a werewolf.

Here is a close up of the Civil Unrest crew, part of Amivectio’s Revolution Group for Spring 2009. This graphic is printed using tonal high density ink.

Using the colorful and rusted sheetmetal of old American cars and trucks, Joel Hester creates one of a kind furniture pieces. Coffee tales, sofa tables, end tables, plasma TV tables with component shelves – the possibilities are endless.

This video is a bit too cheesy for us, but the phone’s concept is great. Designed by industrial designer Tamer NAKISCI for Nokia.

A personal mobile communication device which lets you be free and fun. It is light, simple and carefree. You can change its form according to your needs.

It uses liquid battery, speech recognition, and flexible touch screen, touch sensitive body cover, which lets it understand and adjust to the environment. It has a simple programmable body mechanism so that it changes forms in different situations.