How to Identify Hipsters: By What They Hate

A little bit of country finds its way to Williamsburg

(NEWSER) - Hipster faves fixed-gear bikes, v-neck T-shirts, and ironic mustaches have a pair of new, and very red-neck, companions: Taxidermy and moonshine. The former, Melissa Milgrom reports for the Daily Beast , gives actual and spiritual Williamsburgers the chance to actually own an animal. And, one practitioner notes, “part of being cool is to appear fearless in the face of the intentionally ignored and frightening. So if the mainstream reaction to taxidermy is to be creeped out—a reaction that produces a strong reaction on its own—the counter-culture reaction is to be fascinated and unflinching.” More»

From the Emo to the Meta-Nerd, check 'em here

(NEWSER) - The 2000s have been the decade of plenty of things, hipsters included. Paste undertakes a study of their evolution, from 2000 to the present:

• 2000: The Emo. “Proto-hipster” finds guyliner and a white belt a “soulful combination.”
• 2001: The Emo Redux. You’ll see a theme in this one’s clothing—skulls, say—but not closely matched enough that it looks as though she’s really trying.
• 2002: The Ashton. Oh, the irony of a PBR trucker hat and faux-vintage tee.

NYC teen charged in robbery couldn't have done it, status update proves

(NEWSER) - We’ve all read about bonehead criminals getting caught because of social networks, or people’s online lives coming back to haunt them in divorce proceedings—but can Facebook actually help you in court? The answer is yes, at least for one New York teen, who is free after he provided probably the first ever Facebook alibi. Rodney Bradford was picked up for a robbery in October. Unh-uh, he said. Look at my status update. More»

Washington, Seattle, New York top list

(NEWSER) - Where will young people wind up once the recession ends? Some experts give the Wall Street Journal their best guesses:

1. (tie) Washington, DC: Young people see Barack Obama as “America’s coolest boss,” says one panelist. Jobs in and around government abound, including nonprofit work that appeals to service-minded young people.

Lack of sensical example sentences even in OED flummoxes Angwin

(NEWSER) - Nowadays, Google is just about as good a reference as the Oxford English Dictionary—or better, Julia Angwin writes in the Wall Street Journal. Type in a misspelled word, and the search engine corrects it. What’s more, Google will display a trove of up-to-date articles using the word, something the OED, with its fusty 19th-century examples, doesn’t do well. Still, Google is not a dictionary—where’s the reference book of today? More»