“The Price of a Four-Star Rating”

October 14, 2007

The WSJ on fun-and-games with online restaurant reviews. Eater has followup.

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“73 and Loaded With Friends on Facebook”

October 14, 2007

This is hilarious, sad and “creepy” – “You have to tell her you’re old,” she explained, “because on Facebook, that’s creepy” – and as clear an indication as any that the flufflegubble over Facebook’s valuation is a lot of self-indulgent nonsense.

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“A Mock Columnist, Amok”

October 14, 2007

Is Stephen Colbert the funniest main in America? Today, a guest column at the NYT courtesy of Maureen Dowds. And here’s much more from Colbert in a recent interview by Terry Gross, as he launches the promo for his new book, “I Am America (And So Can You!)”.

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Can the Swiftboating of Al Gore be Far Behind?

October 12, 2007

Al Gore, UN panel share Nobel for Peace.

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An Evening with Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire and Michael Ignatieff

October 12, 2007

I wish I could attend this event – I’m a big fan of both Dallaire and Ignatieff.

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“Being Stupid And Litigious Is No Way To Go Through Life”

October 12, 2007

Mike Masnick calls it “the most bizarre and persistently ridiculous legal threat we’ve seen”. But I think Arrington should get a prize for the best blog post title.

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Rogers v. Kapica on How to get an iPhone

October 12, 2007

It’s not often you see a Canadian telco exec accuse a journalist – from the Globe in particular – of being “inaccurate” or “foolish”, but this seems to be what a Rogers exec did on a Kapica piece on the unavailability of the iPhone in Canada. Notably, the Rogers exec did not respond to Jack’s […]

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Outsourcing slow to catch on in Canada

October 10, 2007

This should get some attention

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The Emotional Theatre of Skype-eBay

October 10, 2007

I’m not getting the media and blogosphere’s fascination over whether the Skype guys harbour secret shame over their sucker deal with eBay. Over and over again we’re invited to Angst Theatre. Me not get. Some smart people suckered some not so smart people. Happens every day, thank god. What else is there to know? Co-Founder […]

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Upbeat Bernier contradicts UN reports

October 8, 2007

If you were, um, ‘unimpressed with his work’ before, you now have another opportunity to marvel at a fresh round of cluelessness from Maxime Bernier – both in terms of the situation in Afghanistan and the Canadian public’s appetite for ‘doofus-ness’ from their elected officials – during a tour of Afganhistan with Bev Oda. The […]

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Limited Liability Personas

October 7, 2007

What a fascinating concept.

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National Guard Troops Denied Benefits After Longest Deployment Of Iraq War

October 6, 2007

Get a good look in now before it runs away and hides in a corner – this is the face of pure, unmitigated evil.

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