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KIDS THESE DAYS / GAWKER.COM

The snarky pop-culture blog Gawker made a link this week between two studies - one about teenagers' perception of risk and one about shoplifting.

"Researchers have discovered that teenagers have very acute perceptions of risk. Other researchers have discovered that retail employees are incredibly successful thieves. These researchers should talk to each other!" wrote Hamilton Nolan

in a post headlined "Cunning teens robbing America blind."

Although many a pimple-faced mall clerk no doubt enjoys a five-finger discount once in a while, is it really America's teens who are the big crime problem?

Bernie Madoff, after all, is well past that awkward adolescent stage.

STAMPS OF APPROVAL / APARTMENTTHERAPY.COM

A new decade means that we're getting even farther away from old-timey technology. Lest we forget that LPs ever existed, the Royal Mail is releasing a set of stamps to celebrate 10 classic British albums, including (clockwise from top left) Let It Bleed by the Rolling Stones, Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, Pink Floyd's The Division Bell and Parklife by Blur.

Interiors blog Apartment Therapy rightfully wonders how Coldplay's A Rush of Blood to the Head made the cut over any Beatles or Smiths records.

Personally, we wonder about the logic of using one lost art to celebrate another. All the stamp collectors in the house - throw your hands up! Anyone? Bueller?

GIRL, YOU'D BETTER (NOT) WORK / GRAZIADAILY.CO.UK

"He may think you're selling more than clothes, you're crazy or you had a bad hip replacement."

America's Next Top Model runway trainer Alexander Jenkins (a.k.a. Miss J) on why it's a bad idea for a woman to break into a catwalk strut to get a man's attention.

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