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It's a testament to the rampant ego-tripping encouraged by microsocial service Bnter that I'm compelled to highlight (and link to!) the term I coined for it, while using it. But "non-consensual chat" sums up the appeal, at least for a manipulative creep like me. All Bnter really does is provide a very simple platform for publishing very simple illusory conversations, where you speak your parts and make some other person say whatever you want. It's very empowering in a way that speaks to the secret master of puppets inside us all.

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If Patrick Moberg thinks illustrating the blatantly obvious is going to win back his beloved subway sweetheart, I gotta tell him -- it might. Through a rather striking illustration, Moberg reminds us that last night we elected our first black president. He also reminds us that William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and James K. Polk didn't have eyebrows, and that every president always, and only, was wore white.

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imageFormer BlackBook intern Camille Hayton -- she of the famed subway romance -- gets the where-is-she-now treatment in the Sunday Telegraph (from Camille's homeland of Australia). Despite the hype, the romance angle didn't last beyond a couple months (as has been widely reported), but Camille and temporarily lovelorn stalker Patrick Moberg remain "just friends." Meanwhile, the aspiring actress has enjoyed a role as a waitress on As the World Turns, plus a bit part in the Sex and the City movie. She plans on returning to Oz in October to spend the holidays with family and to generally avoid the subway for a bit.

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Kylie Minogue put it best when she sang, 'Lucky, lucky, lucky, I should be so lucky in love.' How come Aussies—like our very own Camille—get all the breaks (and the good American-accented parts)?

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A not-so-entirely accurate timeline chronicling the serendipitous destinies of BlackBook intern Camille Hayton and Gawker stalker Patrick Moberg.

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Intern intermediary Jason Rider takes us back to the beginning.

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It doesn't just happen to BlackBook interns.

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Um, instead of covering something with substance, we bring you the epilogue to the ongoing subway saga.

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