Kate Middleton Totally Stole Jessica Simpson's Thunder This Week

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Hey, guess what? Turkey day is next week. After that it won't be long til 2011! While you ponder on that fact and the fleeting nature of time/life/youth/etc., have a nostalgic look back at the week that's just gone by and some of our favorite stories: so Tavi Gevinson announces that she's gonna start a Sassy-like magazine with Sassy,-founder Jane Pratt; Google launches Boutiques.com which is really just Shopstyle.com and Like.com packaged together; someone invented a $15,000 Barbie foosball table; Prince William and Kate Middleton announced their engagement; Emma Watson stepped out in the first Burberry Bespoke trench coat; Carey Mulligan lands the role of Daisy Buchanan in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby; Beyonce got banned from daytime TV; champion of emerging designers OfaKind.com launches; stick insect Rachel Zoe confirms the pregnancy everyone already knew about; the Roxy girls and an Olympic gold medalist show off their stuff; and Alexandre Plokhov announced he'll make a menswear comeback this January.