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"As a result, according to Encyclopedia Dramatica (or ED, as its frequent patrons know it), “Paul placed FIRST (37%) in the MySpace primary, ahead of Huckabee (18%) and Giuliani (16%).” And though 90% of what gets posted on Encyclopedia Dramatica is freely acknowledged by its readers as ironic, intentionally offensive nonsense, when it comes to meticulously documenting the evolution of internet phenomena, it is one of the most reliable sources available, if you can stomach the NSFW images and extremely offensive language."
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» Internet Lays Foundation for GOP Rebirth - Big Government
The sort of shit I find with my Google alert for 4chan.
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"Steve Cakebread"
— I saw this name in an NYT story. That is all.
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"It’s an historical accident that hard news categories like international and investigative reporting were part of profitable businesses."
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News is a lousy business for Google too cdixon.org – chris dixon’s blog
Found via my new addiction, Mediagazer.
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Techmeme just launched a site about media. Now I can unsubscribe from half my Tumblr friends.
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Cause they spent all that money on me. WAKKA-WAKKA!
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"Also she is named after cheese. That’s a pretty big strike against her"
— Cole, regarding a girl named Brie
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Michael Bay, get out of that old-timey house! You are not an old-timey black-and-white filmmaker! You don’t even have a hand-cranked Bolex!
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"Killen says she’s taking a two-day break from Twitter. She’s working on getting her high school diploma, and she told us she hasn’t been able to get much work done this weekend with everything that’s happened."
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Reminds me of 2005. “OMG, they released Facebook for our school last week and I did not do a page of the reading for Macro-economics II.”
Conan O’Brien Follows Fowlerville Teen on Twitter