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    Time Inc's Pre-Thanksgiving Layoffs

    Bad News: Newspaper Circulations Going Up!

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    Protect Your Laptop by Disguising It as a Newspaper

    It's the ultimate camouflage for your sleek, seductive MacBook Pro: A sleeve masquerading as that rotting corpse of print journalism, the daily newspaper.

    It's the perfect repellant for criminally-minded urban digerati, much like the classical music piped outside convenience stores to discourage teenaged loiterers. The Barcelona design firm Mitemite prices it around $85, according to the New York Times' gadget blog, which could buy you a year's worth of real newspapers to wrap your laptop in. But then you'd have to deal with ink, clutter, the pressure to read up on international affairs. Ick.

    (Pic: Mitemite via Times)


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