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10 Dec 2010 11:20

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Tech: Groupon CEO Andrew Mason holds mastercourse in dodging questions

  • Groupon’s CEO, Andrew Mason, is officially the coolest interviewee ever. He dodges questions like some would paint impressionist art. He answers questions using stories nobody would ever think of bringing up. Matt Lauer has no idea what to make of him. And it’s great. source
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09 Dec 2010 22:07

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Tech: AOL’s “You’ve Got News”: The reason you should switch to Chrome

  • In case you’re wondering what the coolest app on the Chrome Web Store is, it’s AOL’s semi-belated entry into the tablet-esque news reader app market. You’ve Got News, a riff on their legacy branding, has a really slick feel and reminds you exactly how much content AOL has on its many news sites. Why isn’t this on the iPad yet, guys? It’s amazing. source
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02 Dec 2010 12:24

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Tech: Bitly News gives short links the Hacker News treatment

  • Thinks we like: Bit.ly. Twitter. Hacker News. Bitly.tv. Now what if someone mashed up Bit.ly links found on Twitter to look like Hacker News, but with the ranking style that Bitly.tv uses? Well, friends, you’d have Bitly News. Which is the coolest thing we’ve seen today. source
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22 Nov 2010 09:58

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Offbeat: Some genius figured out how to put Jimmy Wales on every site

  • Meet our new favorite extension ever. Some clever bastard decided to make a Google Chrome extension that takes those Jimmy Wales guilt-you-into-donating banners and puts one on EVERY. SINGLE. PAGE. Here’s one on Encyclopedia.com, just to show the power of this amazing, immaculate banner. Worth an installation just for a laugh. source
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15 Oct 2010 09:43

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Offbeat: Balloon Boy’s dad, in retrospect: “He was a crackpot”

  • I can’t help but feel I was responsible for stirring the thirst for fame inside of him that led to last year’s hoax. It’s something I have to live with, and sometimes it makes me feel like I want to climb into a box and hide.
  • AOL News contributor David Moye • Explaining how his dealings with Richard Heene may have contributed to the “Balloon Boy” incident a year ago this week. See, Moye worked as senior editor for a service called FlashNews, which provided odd, offbeat news to radio stations and newspaper columnists. And Heene, see, is a crackpot. So Moye covered him more than once. The first time, he referred to Heene as the “Bob Vila of Cardboard Boxes,” after Heene made a video for kids featuring a cardboard puppet named “Boxter.” Dude loves his boxes. Moye also did stories with Heene playing  wacky storm-chaser in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. “After all,” he writes, “he was a crackpot and my audience — wacky morning disc jockeys — would eat this stuff up.” All of this, by the way, was before he got pseudo-famous on “Wife Swap.” Great work, David. source
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14 Oct 2010 23:52

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Politics: Alvin Greene LOLs continue: Reporter victim of Greene’s rabbit ears

  • This clip is so fresh that it hasn’t made its way to YouTube at all. Until now (we just uploaded it). Our friend Larry Crider sends along this clip of Alvin Greene randomly showing up on a live newscast giving a reporter rabbit ears. He’s wearing a Greene for Senate shirt, by the way. In other news, Jim DeMint started the recession. (Update: We initially posted a longer version of the clip with much more context. Here’s the 30-second version, begging for views.) source
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13 Oct 2010 21:02

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World: ALL THE MINERS OUT. LET’S CELEBRATE USING ALL CAPS! WHOO!

  • KNOW HOW WE KNOW THIS IS A HUGE STORY? Because CNN put their headlines IN ALL CAPS. SCREAMING. CONGRATS!
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09 Oct 2010 15:36

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Tech: Yakov Smirnoff wants royalties: In Google’s future, car drives you

  • See that car in the middle with the weird crap on top of it? Well, we’re gonna let you in on a secret: Nobody is driving it. No person, that is. That car is being driven by Google’s artificial intelligence, which can detect cars and traffic patterns without any trouble. There was only one accident in the various tests, and it wasn’t even caused by Google’s car (it was rear-ended). The fuel they’re using? Ed Begley Jr.’s sense of self-satisfaction. source
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05 Oct 2010 23:02

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U.S.: Cool commercial: Moleskine obsessed with Pac-Man, just like us

  • Holy crap. This commercial singlehandedly made Moleskine cool again. The question, of course, is whether or not we can get our black notebook to eat random sugar off a messy desk. source
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01 Oct 2010 21:36

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Culture: Posted without comment: Zachary Quinto starts beef with 50 Cent

@50cent you know what would truly make the world a better place? if people with as much influence and privilege as you spread hope not hate.Fri Oct 01 20:43:04 via Twitter for iPhoneZachary Quinto
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