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Originally posted to Daily Kos.

I've been online for 21 years this month, so I've seen all kinds of things online. One of the most persistent phenomena of the internet, whether the pre-web days of bulletin board systems (BBS's) and Usenet, the Web 1.0 days of discussion forums, or today's Web 2.0 environment of blogs, Twitter, and Facebook, are ( Read more... )

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UCLA: UCLA News Week: Nov. 17, 2010

Dead Sea Scrolls scholar Robert Cargill unravels a strange case of academic cyberbullying in this edition of UCLA News Week, the weekly videocast of research and other developments at UCLA ( Read more... )

Now, the other news--other than science--that struck my fancy as I collected the Fashion Week stories I just posted. These almost qualified for my science stories, as they are energy and technology, but I decided to post them today anyway.

I'll probably post these and the recession-related stories in the previous post to some of the comms I'm a ( Read more... )

From ontd_political  here.

Yahoo! News: Who is Alvin Greene? Mystery S.C. nominee has pending felony charge

Alvin Greene has been on the phone all day. That's to be expected for the guy who just won South Carolina's Democratic Senate primary and is facing incumbent Republican Jim DeMint in November. But everyone calling Greene has just been trying to find out who ( Read more... )

Or so The Vigilant Citizen says.

Lady Gaga, The Illuminati Puppet

Lady Gaga, the Illuminati Puppet - Part 2

The 2009 VMAs: The Occult Mega-Ritual

Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance - The Occult Meaning

The Hidden Meaning of Lady Gaga’s “Telephone”

Personally, I think the guy's tinfoil is on too tight. That doesn't mean he's not onto something. Does "The ( Read more... )

Saturday Hate Mail-a-palooza, Best of Q1 edition

Today we are going to vote on the best two hate mails received between January and March. The top two vote getters will compete in the end-of-year competition for best hate mail of 2010.

I have to say, there are several in here that give "Socialist Fuckstick" a run for its money. This is shaping up to ( Read more... )

Crossposted to ontd_political and awaiting moderation posted here.

Since Mr. Breitbart figured so prominently in this entry on ontd_political, I decided it was time to give the community an opportunity to examine him. He certain deserves an examination.

Time: Citizen Breitbart
By Steve Oney

Andrew Breitbart sits in an Aeron chair at an iMac computer gazing out the sliding ( Read more... )

Some days, the posts write themselves. Today is one of those days.

First, Japhy Grant of True/Slant reviews the latest Lady Gaga video.

Decoding the New Lady Gaga Video
Japhy Grant

Last night, in a rollout that rivaled anything done in the heyday of MTV, Lady Gaga premiered “Telephone”, the most hotly anticipated music video since, well, the last ( Read more... )