Archive for November, 2006
Tuesday, November 21st, 2006
Tired of that marketing director having logged the most hours playing solitaire while on the clock?
Show him or her up with the best version on solitaire on the Web, complete with photos of your favorite “The Office” characters.
As expected, Michael is the Ace. Surprisingly, Dwight takes the Jack while Jim takes the King. [...]
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Tuesday, November 21st, 2006
It’s fairly normal for stand-up comic to feel moments of awkwardness. But when it’s awkwardness for reasons other than failed jokes, it starts to get interesting.
Michael Richards, more famously known as Kramer from the Seinfeld show, recently went off on a racial tirade to an African-American person sitting in the front row of a [...]
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Tuesday, November 21st, 2006
NYT
Rupert and the folks over at News Corp. must’ve been reading PRpulp last week.
Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg News
“I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project,” Mr. Murdoch said. “We are sorry for any pain this has caused the families of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson.”
Either that, or they put [...]
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Monday, November 20th, 2006
Following in Google’s footsteps, Yahoo! announced today that it has formed a strategic partnership with more than 150 newspapers to cross-advertise and streamline the process by which local content gets organized on the Web.
They’re going to test the waters with recruitment advertisements getting posted to HotJobs – a Yahoo! property.
After that, they’ll start tackling more [...]
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Friday, November 17th, 2006
Associated Press ran a story today about the madness associated with crazy consumers trying to get their hands on one of the only 400k or so Playstation 3s that went on sale today.
In Connecticut, the madness crept to dangerous heights:
Two armed thugs tried to rob a line of people waiting for the new Playstation 3 [...]
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Friday, November 17th, 2006
Now we’ve seen it all.
OJ Simpson is coming out with a book that details the hypothetical scenario of how he would have killed his ex-wife.
For once, we can all rejoice in a collective “are you F-in kidding me?”
Here’s an excerpt from a must-read editorial by the Mercury News:
In the book due out Nov. 30, Simpson [...]
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Thursday, November 16th, 2006
BusinessWeek takes the conversation about legal concerns surrounding the YouTube deal to new heights.
BW’s Catherine Holahan reports that Mark Cuban is “considering acquiring the independent news agency that’s suing the video-sharing site for copyright violations.”
Who’s Cuban? Well, he runs Blog Maverick – appropriately inspired by the fact that he owns the Dallas Mavericks. [...]
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Thursday, November 16th, 2006
Clear Channel today announced that it’s going to cash itself in today for a few bucks – $18.7 billion of them in fact.
According to the release:
Under the terms of the agreement, Clear Channel shareholders will receive $37.60 in cash for each share of Clear Channel common stock they hold, representing a premium of approximately 25% [...]
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Wednesday, November 15th, 2006
The boys over at Engadget have a thorough post on the experience of unboxing a spankin’ new Zune.
Some are questioning this:
To set the record straight, “social” can be used as a noun. According to dictionary.com:
–noun
13. a social gathering or party, esp. of or as given by an organized group: a church social.
It reminded us of [...]
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Wednesday, November 15th, 2006
Something is wrong with this:
This morning, we heard about US Airways proposing to merge with Delta for a mere $8B.
While doing some other stuff over at PR Newswire, we noticed that the image that accompanying the story on the home page had absolutely nothing to do with the news of the day (well, other than [...]
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