Daily Twitter Links for the weekend 9-10 February 2013

Here are today's must-reads:

1. The Graveyard Of Shelved Ice Cream Flavors: 

When the Ben and Jerry's ice cream company kills a flavor, it's treated with respect — including a burial in the company's "Flavor Graveyard."

"I think we've got the best, and the not-best, up here," Sean Greenwood, Ben and Jerry's Grand Poobah of Publicity, says from the cemetery in Waterbury, Vt.

"Flavors like Wild Maine Blueberry. It's been decades since we made this flavor, but we used to have the trucks back up here with truckloads of blueberries," he says, "and everyone would pitch in and unload the blueberries, and make it while the blueberries were fresh."

In what may be a nod to the current zombie fad, Ben and Jerry's also offers customers a chance to make the case for resurrecting a favorite flavor.

But that doesn't mean every flavor should be brought back. In particular, Greenwood cites "the dreaded Sugar Plum" ice cream, a mix of plum and caramel that he says should remain six feet under.

2. Fitness Instructors are the New DJs: 

Fitness companies are increasingly getting into the music business. The move comes with the waning impact of traditional radio on the music-buying public, and the rise of boutique exercise classes, particularly yoga, Zumba and indoor cycling.

Fitness entrepreneurs say they are investing hours in training instructors to create compelling playlists that will help generate loyal student followings—and online buzz. Music labels are pitching their emerging talent to instructors and cutting deals with fitness chains. And exercise businesses are trying to cut licensing deals with music companies in order to package and sell workout songs in much the same way that film and television executives do with soundtracks.

3. Waxing our way to the ER: 

Just in case you still haven’t read your December issue of Urology, here’s the best piece of advice you’ll get today: Don’t drink and shave your pubes. You’re welcome.

A new study from the University of California-San Diego reveals that “Emergency room visits due to pubic hair grooming mishaps,” including oh my God no no noooo“lacerations,” increased fivefold between 2002 and 2010, sending an impressive 11,704 pube-scapers to the E.R. The culprits? Scissors and hot wax did some of the damage, but plain-old non-electric-razors accounted for the lion’s share, at 83 percent. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ll be under my desk, rocking slowly back and forth and crying as I think about this.

The study also revealed that below-the-belt grooming isn’t just for adult ladies anymore – men accounted for 43.3 percent of the injuries, and almost 30 percent of them were girls under the age of 18. To avoid becoming yet another harrowing grooming gone bad statistic, the researchers advise hair removal aficionados to “Pay attention to where you’re placing that razor. Invest in a non-slip bath mat. And don’t shave while under the influence of drugs or alcohol.” Yeah, don’t do that. For the love of God don’t do that.

And the most-read link I tweeted over the weekend was:

• "Inside Revenge Porn, The Internet Subculture Where People Post Naked Photos Of Their Exes" http://pjblack.me/WUUqhu

These are some of the other things I've been tweeting about over the weekend:

• "The Smitten Word: The awkward art of writing about sex" http://pjblack.me/XYeJbU
• "The Unsettling Beauty of Lethal Viruses" http://pjblack.me/WUWiXx
• "Pirate Bay documentary TPB:AFK ready for download" http://pjblack.me/XYeMo7 #lwn117 #lws008 #lwb486
• "Flickr Is Back, Letting Us Go Home Again" http://pjblack.me/11vDen8
• behind the scenes of editing a dictionary: "When does ‘wrong’ become ‘right’?" http://pjblack.me/W5QnO2
• are writers happy they became writers?: "Elizabeth Gilbert Versus Philip Roth: Is Writing Torture?" http://pjblack.me/W5PbKk
• "Monologue: A Farewell Speech From the Monopoly Iron" http://pjblack.me/WUUtcZ
• "Inside Revenge Porn, The Internet Subculture Where People Post Naked Photos Of Their Exes" http://pjblack.me/WUUqhu
• "Batmobile Lawsuit: Warner Bros. Wins Against Maker of Vehicle" http://pjblack.me/W5OJvI #lws008 #lwb486
• "Why Using Creative Commons Licensed Materials Is Not As Easy As It Looks" http://pjblack.me/WSYUVP #lwb486 #lws008
• "Examining the popularity of Wikipedia articles: catalysts, trends, and applications" http://pjblack.me/W2mTAw
• why do people keep pressing the elevator “call” button: "Lift" http://pjblack.me/WSTav7
• "London real estate anticipates US tech expansion into Europe" http://pjblack.me/W2m36Q
• "Father Gives Daughter $200 to Quit Facebook for Rest of School Year" http://pjblack.me/WT2SO6
• the road to network hell paved with too-cool-for-school intentions: "Is 'House Of Cards' Netflix's Bridge To Nowhere?" http://pjblack.me/WUUNsg 
• "Twitter's Vine Is Perfect for Fashion Week" http://pjblack.me/14HRuXX
• "A Photographic Guide to Looking Concerned While Meeting with the President" http://pjblack.me/WVizoa
• dear me: "Waxing our way to the ER: Grooming accidents are exploding. When did we start hating pubes?" http://pjblack.me/11vD6UO
• sydney and melbourne are pretty expensive: "Tokyo drift: The cost of living around the world" http://pjblack.me/WUZDWG
• "Drone Strike Out: The Obama administration's drone strike memo is unconstitutional" http://pjblack.me/WSToT8
• "Justice Clarence Thomas's comment during oral arguments sparks court reporter tiff" http://pjblack.me/W6fY9w
• "Can Fox Be Both the Least Trusted Name in News, and the Most Trusted? Apparently, Yes." http://pjblack.me/WSHOre
• "Jon Stewart Takes on the Entire Internet Over the New Monopoly Cat" http://pjblack.me/14HRrey
• "Fitness Instructors are the New DJs" http://pjblack.me/W1UDxS
• "Insiders Ask: Can Jeff Zucker Change the Cheapskate Culture of CNN?" http://pjblack.me/WSDp7E
• this is interesting: "What's So Bad About Copying? An Art Gallery Scrutinizes Unoriginality" http://pjblack.me/WSDnMS #lws008
• i'm really excited about this prospect: "The Apple iWatch" http://pjblack.me/WV1hr7 /via @Priest
• "How the Gun-Control Movement Got Smart" http://pjblack.me/14HRyH0
• "Bush's Art Forces Liberals to Contemplate Bush's Soul" http://pjblack.me/WUYH4B
• "Dick Morris’s Fox Exit Latest Fall—and Rise?—of a Political Survivor" http://pjblack.me/W1Qjia
• "The goal is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us": "Netflix, House of Cards, and the Golden Age of Television" http://pjblack.me/WSAtI0
• is being stuck in the second row really grounds for launching a lawsuit?: "Squeezing One More in Fashion’s Front Row" http://pjblack.me/WSzkjK
• no surprises here: "Heavy drinking, 'incompatible' drinking tied to divorce, study says" http://pjblack.me/W1LLIM
• "Snapchat and the Erasable Future of Social Media" http://pjblack.me/WSvR4D
• "The Graveyard Of Shelved Ice Cream Flavors" http://pjblack.me/W1FL2v
• "There is a double standard over student poverty: union" http://pjblack.me/W1BagT #highered
• a good profile of aaron swartz: "Aaron Swartz: He wanted to save the world. Why couldn’t he save himself?" http://pjblack.me/WSsdaW
• it was such a fun film: "How Wreck-It Ralph recruited Sonic, Pac-Man and Bowser" http://pjblack.me/WSYq1W
• "McDonald’s Testing Table Service with Actual Forks & Knives" http://pjblack.me/WSxjEf
• "22 Important Things You Should Know About Yoda" http://pjblack.me/WSvTJL

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