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Google Office Fire Digitially Captured From Like, 432 Different Angles

3:53AM Ryan Tate | Google’s London office building briefly caught on fire, and there’s a very good chance you heard about it, because internet geeks are great at instantly broadcasting images of flames, globally. If only they were as good at igniting grills. More »
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HuffPo’s Dangerous Quacks, Hacks And Cultists

6:50AM Ryan Tate | Salon has a great post by a doctor about medical quackery at the Huffington Post, where a columnist recently suggested colon cleansing could treat swine flu. This is the downside of HuffPo’s open, unpaid model — and culty recruiter. More »
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Arianna Huffington Crowdsources Her 59th Birthday Party

4:02AM Ryan Tate | Arianna Huffington’s 59th birthday has been nothing if not dramatic. The internet publisher returned to her birthplace of Athens, Greece before ending up in Dubrovnik, Croatia. What did Huffington do for the occasion? Whatever Twitter told her to. More »