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15 Dec 2009 09:00

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U.S.: The White House generates a lot of e-mail, apparently

  • 94 days the span of time the 22 million missing Bush e-mails spread over, according to Gawker
  • 234,042 the number of e-mails they would’ve had to send and receive every single day source

27 Sep 2009 11:47

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Offbeat: Warning to Aussies: Vegemite has been upgraded to iSnack 2.0

  • It’s been difficult to contain my excitement; I actually leapt out of my chair when I heard the news. To think that I could go down in Australia’s history is overwhelming.
  • West Australian Web designer Dean Robbins • Describing his initial reaction to finding out that his name for the upgraded version of Vegemite, iSnack 2.0, had been accepted. Purists will probably have a hard time accepting the fact that the yeast-inflected snack has been upgraded using cream cheese to offset the original flavor, but that’s business for ya. • source

03 Aug 2009 21:02

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About: The Associated Press is dead to us. We’re not covering their stories.

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  • The slogan that runs at the bottom of each Associated Press story • We copied it from the bottom of one of their articles. Why? Because it’s silly in the day and age of the Internet. Of course it’s going to get copied and redistributed, paraphrased and quoted. It’s how information spreads. But not anymore from us. We quit. This was the last straw. You used to be great, AP, but now you’re just a giant beast of another era. Even your efforts to reach younger customers fail. So, we’re no longer linking to your stories on this site. Or, if we absolutely need to (which, considering the wide variety of content online, we don’t need to), we’ll link to you guys using a NoFollow tag. Think we should do this? Let us know. We’re up for any opinion you have on this matter. We simply want the AP to respect the rights of its audience. It’s only fair.