Daily Archives: October 15, 2006

Edelman and Wal-Mart and fake blogs? Oh my…

By Frank Paynter | Published: October 15, 2006

[Disclosure: Saturday night at a fund raiser for Rae Vogeler, our Green Party candidate for Senate, I picked up two "I Hate Wal-Mart" pins. I put one on my jacket, and brought the other one home to Beth.] But really… Edelman is supposed to be coached in this web-world stuff by the best. How could [...]

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Least tragic hip-hop deaths…

By Frank Paynter | Published: October 15, 2006

I don’t want to be thought insensitive — especially I don’t want to be thought insensitive by a bunch of gang bangers who hold their guns sideways while they blow people away — but this post cracked me up! Does anybody know if this guy was an actual rapper, or if the cops just assumed [...]

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Bring out your dead…

By Frank Paynter | Published: October 15, 2006

Peter (the other) worked up a nice Friday the 13th rant and ramble regarding body counts and all… … the venerable John Hopkins has chimed in (via Lancet), and if a blog is not a place to go FUCK YOU! I TOLD YOU SO YOU GOD DAMN MURDERERS…. well then, what is it for then? [...]

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River of Clues

By Frank Paynter | Published: October 15, 2006

Getting back to basics this morning…

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Mackin’ on the Galaxy

By Frank Paynter | Published: October 15, 2006

(h/t to shakespierce…) Jonathan Abrams raked down $13million in VC cash for a stake in Friendster (YASN). The safe bet would have been the $30million that Google was offering. This is a story that’s two or three years out of date but it seems to have grown legs because Google bought YouTube. The cultural poverty, [...]

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