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02 Sep 2010 10:25

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Offbeat: Wrong kind of “dirty”: Libel lawsuit nails the wrong site

  • the dirty Posted racy pictures of a Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader and school teacher. Also had Ben Quayle as a writer.
  • the dirtGot sued for The Dirty’s actions, ignored it. Lost the $11 million suit. In ironic twist, considering suing back for libel. source
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19 May 2010 23:02

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World: “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!” Tomorrow promises bad things

  • 4/23A misguided artist draws a picture parodying the South Park Mohammed thing and sets 5/20 as a date for everyone to draw Mohammed. It gets attention because she sends it to blogs.
  • 4/24 Afraid of the monster she just created, she disowns the picture she personally sent to the blogs and calls it a joke that got out of hand. It doesn’t matter; the idea has already taken hold.
  • 5/19 Pakistan bans Facebook – the entire site – because of the fan page for this thing which has gotten out of hand in a way only things on the internet can. There are videos, too. source
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18 May 2010 21:20

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Tech, World: Google’s stupid wi-fi mistake gets the regulators on them

  • bad Google’s Street View cars traveled around European cities and towns and accidentally downloaded people’s wi-fi data. Oops.
  • worse Understandably, some countries are upset. The Germans and the Czech are doing investigations of the Street View cars. source
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08 Apr 2010 01:57

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U.S.: Dear “misunderstanding bomber”: Next time, use nicotine gum

  • We admit it, we were watching a movie when this happened. It was called “The Foot Fist Way.” It stars Danny McBride as a tae kwon do instructor. It was entertaining, but not nearly as entertaining as this mess of accidental terrorism. Like that movie, this story had an anticlimactic ending. Here’s a timeline:
  • 5:19 Plane leaves Reagan National Airport in D.C. and heads to Denver; happens daily.
  • 8:30 Dude lights a smoke because he can’t wait a #(&(&@ hour for the flight to land.
  • 8:40 Military escorts the flight to Denver because they think he has a friggin’ bomb.
  • 10:07 ABC reports that dude is the second coming of the shoe bomber. Others follow.
  • 11:00 It’s proven he didn’t have a bomb, but instead an insane nicotine habit. source
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02 Dec 2009 11:53

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Culture: Tiger Woods finally breaks down, admits to affairs

  • I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart. I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves.
  • Tiger Woods • Admitting to transgressions and affairs with other women. He should’ve said something on Saturday. Now it’s just a mess and he can’t do anything to fix it. We feel bad for him, but … dude, your PR sucks as much as your golf game rules. source
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29 Oct 2009 01:08

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Offbeat: Great idea, idiots: A mistaken phone number leads to a shooting

  • A guy tried to get a hold of someone via text. He had the wrong number. Honest mistake, right? Whoops. My bad. source
  • The two men started fighting via text, and it got so bad that they met near a CVS, and one shot the other. Idiots. source
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18 Sep 2009 10:52

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U.S.: Way to go, doofus: A Slate error fell into Obama’s health care speech

  • Here at Slate, we correct errors quickly and conspicuously, and usually Slate readers alert me almost instantly whenever I goof (which I try very hard not to do). But nobody told me about this blunder.
  • Slate writer Timothy Noah • Describing the series of events that led a factually-flawed detail from one of his articles to wind up in Obama’s health care speech. Dude, it’s the president. THE PRESIDENT. You’re supposed to not screw up those sorts of things. In all seriousness, the fact revolved around the plight of Otto Raddatz, whose insurance was canceled after he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Noah said he died as a result. In reality, the Illinois attorney general’s office went to bat for him and he eventually got a life-extending surgery. • source
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28 May 2009 10:53

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Offbeat, Tech: Yelp is saying “Gulp” after ticking off an anti-rape advertiser

“Put the fun between your legs” perhaps wasn’t the right headline for an article on biking sponsored by an anti-rape organization. *oof* source
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13 May 2009 09:39

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Tech: Twitter apparently took a cue from the Facebook playbook

  • Retweet this if you disagree w Twitter’s decision to hide replies to ppl you don’t follow. #fixreplies
  • A current retweet floating around Twitter • After the announcement that Twitter would hide replies from people you don’t follow yesterday, a decision that seemed arbitrary and caused many people to shake their fists in anger. However, compared to a Facebook dramabomb, this is comparatively nothing. • source
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16 Apr 2009 10:29

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Biz: That guy who bought Tribune, Sam Zell, regrets his decision

  • By definition, if you bought something and it’s now worth a great deal less, you made a mistake and I’m more than willing to say I made a mistake. I was too optimistic in terms of the newspaper’s ability to preserve its position.
  • Sam Zell • Who bought Tribune in 2007, then, burdened by debt, was forced to massively reorganize the company, laying off thousands and bankrupting the company in the process. Good show, chap. • source
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