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Facebook: used more on the weekend.
Two points to make about this World Editors Forum story:
1. No fucking shit more articles are shared on Facebook over the weekend; most of us have lives, things to do during the day, etc. Doesn’t it follow that not only will one see an increase in article trading by way of FB, but a general [...]
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For what its worth
(Trivia: How many times has that been used as a headline on this blog?)
Just heard a little bit of interesting info on the Diane Rehm Show’s Friday News Roundup from last week.
So as we all know, Iran has been building uranium enrichment facilities for a while now, but the number of functional enrichment facilities in [...]
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Hyperbole!
The Gothamist headline, copped from the NY Post says, “Police Bust Massive Rockaway Drug Ring”
But the content suggests neither “massive” nor “ring,” in the Don Corelone sense of the word, anyway. First, lets talk weight:
Police seized 41 bags of crack, 230 bags of marijuana, and smaller amounts of heroin and Oxycontin.
That’s referred to as [...]
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“The Origins Of Facebook And Its Founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg”
I’m only on page 2 of the first piece, but if this series lives up to its self-promotion, this is the one we’ve been waiting for (“we” being the people who know who Mark Zuckerberg is).
UPDATE: Wow, Business Insider… two years of reporting for that?
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Oh! Pick Me! Pick Me! I know! I know!
Salon: Why’s GOP calling Rangel “crooked Harlem Democrat”?
Thats easy! Its because the GOP is America’s Racist Party. And in Harlem there are mostly black people, you see.
And while I’m thinking about it, Salon partially answered their own question earlier today in this piece (tipped to us by WTPWB’s biggest fan JEG, IV), describing in no [...]
NPH = Gargamel?
Neal Patrick Harris’ stock went up in my book after I saw him guest judge (read: tear people up on) American Idol. Not that NPH ever had stock issues in my book. But this could be his tipping point… from pretty cool to fucking awesome:
Neil Patrick Harris has a TV-heavy resume. Now he’s just landed [...]
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Seeing straight
Not that it bothers me all that much, but does it strike anyone that blind jokes about David Paterson are more acceptable, or at least more common, than before it came out that he used the power of his office to intimidate a victim of domestic violence, bungled budget negotiations and gave false testimony under [...]
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Second Look: Bruce Ivins
In partial spite of my tongue-in-cheek writing up of Bruce Ivins’s oddball lifestyle in the run up to his mailing Anthrax letters to members of Congress shortly after September 11, 2001, a second look at the document proves absolutely chilling. I didn’t notice this upon first read, because some of the paragraph is cut off [...]
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