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Shorter cuts: news doesn't get any smaller

What Peggy saw in Mad Men …
What Peggy saw in Mad Men … Photograph: Frank Ockenfels/AMC

History repeating?

Drummer Reni walked out of a Stone Roses gig in Amsterdam on Tuesday. Will John Squire be next, followed by British dates rivaling 1996's Reading Festival show for Worst Gig Of All Time?

Spailout

Shorthand for the Spanish bailout, as used by Robert Peston on Twitter. "Grexit" is clearly old news.

Mad dogs

Missing Mad Men already. But can anyone explain the deep significance of the bit when Peggy glimpses two dogs having sex outside her window?

A recipe too far

Housebites, which provides ready-cooked food for posh dinner parties, is now offering to deliver dirty pans to complete the illusion that the hosts cooked themselves. Oh, stop it.

Lols for sale

There are 1,930 new internet domain names on the way, including .music, .gay, .kids and .london. No surprise that Google is bidding for dozens of them, Not sure they should be allowed exclusive rights to .lol though.

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