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March 30th, 2008

TNT Report: Disney Hires Bush to Consult on Genocide Comedies

Shortly after President Bush described the maelstrom of violence in Iraq as a “defining moment in the history of a free Iraq,” The Walt Disney Company announced plans to hire the president as a consultant on a series of quasi-historical animated features.
Disney’s uplifting interpretations of history include creating a happy ending for the cruelly abused […]

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March 28th, 2008

Live Blog My Divorce: Requiem for a Family

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I generally avoid putting details of my personal life in posts, but after several weeks of consideration I’ve decided to write on the subject of my ongoing divorce, which terminates 18 years of marriage.
Sorry, there’s no scandal or devilry involved, just two people growing apart […]

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March 27th, 2008

Linker Barn: Friday Fishwrap March 28

The San Francisco Treat: dildo waving at planning commission meeting. Why not, if it involved the hideous Transbay Tubesteak?
And in this corner: SPCA vs. S.F. Art Institute bambi smackdown.
U.K conman nailed for fleecing bedridden vic on MySpace.
Music meets money: pay music tax to ISPs?
And Guardian U.K. on scrounging free music.
Sirened: what happens when […]

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March 25th, 2008

Linker Barn: Hump Day March 26

Guy Kawasaki on the art of sucking up.
Newsom threatens to sue–that’s sue–over Medi-Cal cuts.
Cuba kiboshes critic’s blog.
MSFT to build political blog aggregator.
Still more MySpace tagger stuff.
R.I.P. for tech journalist Russel Shaw.
Matthew Ingram on mesh 2008 panelists scheduled for the event this May.
IBM busts out new version of Lotus Expeditor for mobile mashup action.
What’s more dumberer […]

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March 24th, 2008

Esquire + Viagra = Nuns Pulling a Boner

I generally don’t recommend purchasing styled out mags whose pages mostly consist of overpriced women’s clothing modeled on men who look like they nibble urinal cakes, but I urge you to buy the April Esquire.
But this is one of the few times in life where use of the word ‘juxtaposition’ isn’t pretentious.
Thus you can revel […]

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March 23rd, 2008

Linker Barn: Monday, March 24

San Francisco: among the stuff white people like.
Scenes from the Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair.
Come up with a humorous caption for Mother Turdresa: Paris Hilton holds an African baby.
Details of a Caltrain death from inside the train itself.
Weston, Virginia sex perp on MySpace.
Oakland A’s to offer all you can eat seats!
Tales of serious brain disorders […]

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March 19th, 2008

Gay Travel Ads: You Can Take It With You

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March 19th, 2008

Spoof Roundup: TNT Items

Lately it’s been hard to put together TNT (Tomorrow’s News Today) news satires, simply because much of the real news has been so skewed that it essentially comes pre-mocked.
So there’s no time like the present for a retrospective of my fake news items from the past, such as:

Detroit Passengers Brutalize Hijackers.

Satan Joins Wilson Sonsini as […]

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March 19th, 2008

Linker Barn: Hump Day March 20

Mass hack attack effs up 200,00 sites.
Suicide Girls: You lost, Hillary. Now go away.
Murderer nabbed thanks to web.
Ingram eulogizes Arthur C. Clarke, dead at 90.
Don’t be evil: a trigger for ethical questions.
Battelle on dollars & cents of MSFT Yahoo takeover.
GripeLine on subscription scams coming at ya.
Bebo: JailBaitSpace?
Princeton’s Ed Felten threatened by Sequoia Voting Systems […]

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March 18th, 2008

Migden to Pay Huge Campaign Fine Out of Campaign Funds

Carole Migden has been called onto the carpet for the original San Francisco Treat: graft. The Senator, a doppleganger for The Simpsons’ Sideshow Bob, allegedly failed to itemize $397,000 in campaign expense credit card charges over a seven year period.
Migden’s spending habits appear to parallel her driving: you don’t want to be on the […]

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