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18 Mar 09

Demara

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He was an audacious fake and a master deceiver, and he remains one of the most intriguing figures in Canada's naval history. Not bad for a man who was neither a sailor nor a Canadian citizen.
- Great story. - on 2009-03-18
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02 Mar 09

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | MGMT to sue Sarkozy for music use

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UMP has admitted using it, but said it was a mistake and has offered a symbolic gesture of one euro (£0.89).
- What? I mean, seriously, WHAT? Symbolic? Well, next time I'm getting a bottle of gin, I'll be telling them I'll pay a symbolic Euro too. - on 2009-03-02
- Seriously, what? A symbolic euro? Symbolic for that? Their negligence and stupidity? - on 2009-03-02
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- Seriously, what? In the future, I'll keep telling my baker I'll pay a symbolic Euro for my bread. - on 2009-03-02
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25 Feb 09

Got Medieval: Vera Wang's "Modern Medieval"

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But if you're the sort who refuses to follow links on principle, the article I linked offers this explanation of what she meant by "Modern Medieval":
"Techno fabrics and modern architectural silhouettes combined with the romance of old world Venice through soft organzas and the illusion of Fortuny pleating vis-à-vis sewn strips of fabric that created a bib effect on some of the dresses."
And while "old world" is a weasely word, usually the oldest world people associate with Venice is the the world inhabited by Donatello, Michaelangelo, and the other ninja turtles, which is to say Renaissance--not medieval--Venice.

So, by "modern medieval," Vera Wang means some amalgam of 20th-century Spanish design, 19th-century fabric, and 15th- or 16th-century Italian romance. Or, in other words, "kinda old-timey." Awesome.

16 Dec 08

Holland Township family angry that supermarket won't personalize cake for their son

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Young Adolf Hitler Campbell will be getting a cake from Wal-Mart this year.

14 Dec 08

Communist Christmas

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04 Dec 08

Ning Blog » The End of the Red Light District

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As individuals and as a service, we stand for the freedom to create your own social networks for anything. We believe that people should be able to set their own social norms and Ning, as a broad-based service, is designed to respect many different perspectives and enable them to co-exist seamlessly and effortlessly.
- Yeah, whatever. - on 2008-12-03
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Therefore, the decision we’re announcing today to discontinue our Red Light District is a tough one. However, from a practical perspective, this difficult decision is the right one.
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- Specifically, they require other social networks to work harder because they don’t generate enough advertising or premium service revenue to cover their costs. Plus, our ad partners aren’t big fans of the adult networks and therefore require us to identify adult networks or risk our healthy advertising revenue. We don’t want to be in the policing business and, unchecked, that’s where this is heading.
  - Two things: First, if someone's paying money for the premium service, then they are paying the price Ning put on the tag. If Ning later on finds out it's not enough, it's their damn fault. Second, the sentence about their ad partners is telling. While in the first paragraph it's all about how Ning is all for diversity, when it comes to cold, hard cash, they're not.
    
    I was actually planning on having a social network hosted by Ning, which would have been centered on alcohol (yes, Martinis!). Now I'll try to find some other place, because hey, you never know, maybe someday their ad-partners decide that having people read about alcohol might corrupt their brittle souls. And Ning wouldn't want that and pull the plug. - on 2008-12-03
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- By having legal adult social networks on Ning, we’ve seen a rise in volume of illegal adult social networks. We are always going to do the right thing as it pertains to social networks that are illegal or violate our Terms of Service. That’s non-negotiable. However, the time involved in reporting and assisting the authorities on illegal adult social networks is simply too time and cost intensive for the benefits derived by having adult social networks on Ning.
  - Oh please. That's like saying we should shut down the Internets, because if there's space for legal activity, there's always space for illegal one. What a fucking moot point. - on 2008-12-03
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- This is important in all circumstances, but in this recession we have to be relentless in providing the most compelling service in the most efficient way possible. Therefore, from a practical perspective, the only practical answer we see is a clear elimination of adult networks from the Ning Platform altogether.
  - Here we go, the recession argument. This is ridiculous. Oh by the way, nobody'll get any Christmas presents this year from me. Recession, ya know? - on 2008-12-03
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- Again, this was not an easy decision and we did not make it on philosophical grounds. We made it on a purely practical one. For those of you who created and worked hard on your adult network, we appreciate your work and dedication and wish there were a different answer.
  - Yeah, tough luck really. But thanks for helping us grow and all!
    
    Btw, this is what Ning had to say about the issue a while back. Didn't sound like they had too many problems with the above mentioned points back then: http://blog.ning.com/2008/01/a_word_on_the_red_light_distri.html - on 2008-12-03
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14 Nov 08

Novels 'better at explaining world's problems than reports'

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While fiction may not always show a set of presentable research findings, it does not compromise on complexity, politics or readability in the way that academic literature sometimes does.
Storytelling is one of humanity's oldest methods of possessing information and representing reality. The stories, poems and plays we categorise as literary fiction were once accepted in much the same way that scientific discourse is received as authoritative today.

13 Nov 08

A Fake Expert Named Martin Eisenstadt and a Phony Think Tank Fool Bloggers and the Mainstream News Media - NYTimes.com

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And the claim of credit for the Africa anecdote is just the latest ruse by Eisenstadt, who turns out to be a very elaborate hoax that has been going on for months. MSNBC, which quickly corrected the mistake, has plenty of company in being taken in by an Eisenstadt hoax, including The New Republic and The Los Angeles Times.
An MSNBC spokesman, Jeremy Gaines, explained the network’s misstep by saying someone in the newsroom received the Palin item in an e-mail message from a colleague and assumed it had been checked out. “It had not been vetted,” he said. “It should not have made air.”

06 Nov 08

Oliver Burkeman's Campaign Diary: Sarah Palin "didn't know Africa wasn't a country" | World news | guardian.co.uk

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Here, Fox News's Carl Cameron explains how he was told that Palin didn't understand that Africa was a continent rather than "a country in itself."
- I'm glad, so glad Obama won. - on 2008-11-06
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CNN's holograms not really holograms

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The CNN anchors were not really speaking to three-dimensional projected images, but rather empty space, Kreuzer said. The images were simply added to what viewers saw on their screens at home, in much the same way computer-generated special effects are added to movies.

Kreuzer said the images were tomograms, which are images that are captured from all sides, reconstructed by computers, then displayed on screen.

Holograms, on the other hand, are projected into space.

CNN officials could not be reached for comment.
- I knew it! We were all duped by CNN. AGAIN! - on 2008-11-06
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