NotesJust like Troopergate, she counts on morons to just believe without question or follow-up. So tired of the exploitation of fear and willful ignorance. "Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, in a campaign appearance Sunday, criticized comments about coal technology that Sen. Barack Obama made to The Chronicle editorial board in January, and suggested that the newspaper withheld the information from the public - even though the interview has been posted on the newspaper's Web site since it was given."Unfurl
Notes"The woman who had her pet dog cloned by South Korean scientists flatly denied early Thursday that she was a bail jumper accused of sexually assaulting and kidnapping a male Mormon missionary more than 30 years ago in Surrey, England."Unfurl
Notes"automatically replacing any use of the word “gay” with the word “homosexual” in any of the AP stories they run … leading to instances in which proper names are reformatted to meet their ridiculous standard"Unfurl
Notes"Crowds work when you have a tightly knit group of people with similar interests, but when you have a loosely knit community you get "Man Gets Hit in Crotch With Football" and Everybody Loves Raymond, where it's just good enough to not suck."Unfurl
Notes"There is not a single fact that is "fudged" in the film. No one has proven a single fact in the film wrong. We expect CNN to correct their mistakes on the air and to apologize to their viewers."Unfurl
Notes"A 6-year-old girl who sat on an open drain in a wading pool lost part of her intestinal tract to the drain’s powerful suction, her family said."Unfurl
Notes"They came from all over the world, poles in hand, and feet ready to inch more than half a mile across a high wire strung over the Han River in a spine-tingling battle of balance, speed and high anxiety."Unfurl
NotesAmen: "I think the problem with browser-based RSS software is that the people who write the apps aren't news junkies. If they were, they could, with much less effort, create something far more powerful and far more usable."Unfurl
Notes"HypeFighter is a cross between a user-contributed content site and a turn-based massively multiplayer online game. Basically, it's a cross between Digg and Dark Throne."Unfurl
Notes"what I see right now is the depressing reality that everybody can be completely reasonable, and the end result is that nobody is allowed to show the most engaging, interesting and unique parts of their personality."Unfurl
Notes"Les Orchard, author of "Hacking del.icio.us," has been in the process of making his way to Silicon Valley, where he will work for the Yahoo-owned Delicious bookmarking service. "Unfurl
Notes"Luckily I am just old enough to remember the good ole days when we had a news anchor who would get loaded and challenge the Mayor of Detroit to a boxing match. God how I hate local news."Unfurl
Notes"You might have heard that Tom Delay's been indicted. You might have heard that a living giant squid was finally found and photographed. Heres what you need to know about both stories"Unfurl
Notes"WCBS in New York may have just hit on the final solution to the Doppler Wars, inventing an utterly unbeatable, unstoppable, and unmatchable Doppler Radar technology:"Unfurl
Notes"At any rate, Mr. Hart said he wanted the newspaper to get its racks off his lots. But he also said that if I fired Mark, we could talk about continuing to sell the newspaper at his stores."Unfurl
Notes"Will it have typical time history, or might it get picked up by popular blogs and given a new lease of life? Nature will monitor its fate and reveal the results in a week's time. Watch this space."Unfurl
Notes'...now the US politician who led the campaign to change the name of french fries to "freedom fries" has turned against the war...' [nelson]HA-HA![/nelson] Jackass.Unfurl
Notes"By charging for its online content, the Times reduces its number of linkable sources, and thus its reach in the online world. It's their first step towards ensuring they will play a smaller role in it going forward."Unfurl
Notes"He didn’t. Minutes later, no missiles came; months later, the frightening data across his monitor was determined to have been a system glitch."Unfurl
Notes"Maybe this, then, is the most pressing question of our time: How to get the vast majority of Americans to care? To pay attention? To read?"Unfurl
Notes"Our users tell us that one of the things they value most about our service is our policy of linking openly to other websites." Holy crap. Can they get anymore clueful?Unfurl
NotesI really wish these people could just speak fully and truthfully. I mean, yeah, politics are politics, but it really seems to be getting worse.Unfurl
NotesSensationalist morons. Headline should be updated to 'State education website accidentally linked to linked to linked to linked to linked to linked to linked to linked to linked to pornography.'Unfurl
Notes"By randomly choosing a story a week to fact-check after it's published, the paper wants to simultaneously dissuade potential corner-cutters while proving to readers its commitment to honesty."Unfurl
Notes"The family of late singer Johnny Cash has blocked an attempt by advertisers to use his hit song Ring of Fire to promote haemorrhoid-relief products."Unfurl
Notes"Nearly 2 million people are expected to exhaust their state unemployment benefits in the first half of the year without access to more government aid or a regular paycheck, according to a study released Thursday."Unfurl
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