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Internet : 
Wired rachète Ars Technica : 
Partage de données : 
  • Depuis quelques jours, google a commencé à mettre en place un service de partage des données personnelles entre sites web, mais facebook refuse de partager... : Facebook’s Glass Jaw
  • Pour ceux qui utilisent des lecteurs de RSS comme Netvibes, voici une liste de paquets de liens offerts par Read Write Web pour mettre dans votre lecteur :  OPML Resources for ReadWriteWeb Readers
Le monde du piratage, driver sur l'innovation : 
A contrario, le monde des blogs devient réactionnaire : 
  • Un drôle d'exemple de bashing par internet où les bloggeurs japonais s'en prennent à Greenpeace pour une action militante où ils ont pénétré par effraction dans un entrepot pour y prendre des photos de stock de viande de baleine volée :  Japan : Bloggers criticize Greenpeace over whale-meat theft
  • Quelques analyses sur la façon de rédiger et de lire des textes sur ordinateur, et sur comment se départir des principes automatiques qu'on a pour le papier : La main à la pâte
Divers et bizarre : 

Le sénateur David Assouline : Contrôler Internet



"La commission des affaires culturelles du Sénat a confié à David Assouline la rédaction d'un rapport d'information sur « l'impact des nouveaux médias sur la jeunesse ». Il a ouvert un blog sur ce...



[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]


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Voir en ligne : Le sénateur David Assouline : Contrôler Internet

The Dark Side of Social Networking : An Interview



"Last summer, a local San Diego CBS affiliate television station, News 8, aired a story about a website called BumFinder.com. The website solicited users who would spot people who appeared to be homeless and plug in their location coordinates using a Google Map. The station interviewed San Diego's most famous homeless advocate, Father Joe Carroll..."

Voir en ligne : The Dark Side of Social Networking: An Interview

Is Best Buy Buying Netflix ?



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A reader says there was chatter to that effect this afternoon, as Netflix (NFLX) pushed 6% higher on high volume.



Would this make sense? Only if Best Buy (BBY) has been persuaded that the Blockbuster (BBI) - Circuit City (CCI) deal makes sense, which we certainly haven't.



On the "why not?" side, a Best Buy - Netflix combination would of course be vastly more powerful than a Blockbuster - Circuit City combination---because it would be two No. 1's vs. two No. 2's and because Netflix is stronger than Blockbuster in the only business that could provide real synergy: mail-order subscriptions and digital downloads.






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Japan Running Out Of Engineers



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Japan is running out of engineers.



After years of fretting over coming shortages, the country is actually facing a dwindling number of young people entering engineering and technology-related fields.






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Extinction Timeline 1950-2050

[fr] Steven Spielberg est sur Seesmic



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Je ne sais pas s’il est toujours connecté mais je viens de découvrir une série de conversation avec le maître Steven Spielberg lui même sur Seesmic. Si vous n’avez rien à faire allez y faire un tour c’est pas tous les jours qu’on peut avoir une conversation avec l’un des plus grands génies du cinéma, Harrison Ford et Georges Lucas sont aussi sur place. Je sais pas vous mais moi ca me fait bizarre et je trouve cela assez excitant…Je vais quand même essayer de lui poser une question on verra bien.


Promo: Suivez TechCrunch France sur Twitter: des infos et invitations exclusives




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Facebook’s Glass Jaw



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Facebook finally has a real problem to deal with - an exceptionally rational and well-thought-out strategy by Google that puts the leading social media cloud in the path of a wave of angry users. The only thing Facebook has going for it is that said users don’t yet know they’re angry.


With its denial of service attack on Google’s Friend Connect, Facebook is serving notice that it feels threatened. By what? Users leveraging their Friend data to form communities outside of the Facebook moat? Forget for a moment that we tell Facebook who our friends are, and those gestures are created and owned by us. If Facebook insists on freezing our data as a condition of using their service, the company is essentially recommending we go elsewhere.


Google is smart enough to realize it doesn’t need to win here to help Facebook lose. Friend Connect does more to incentivize OpenId usage than to sell Google services; OpenId proliferation amortizes the complexity of that solution across multiple cooperating Web sites, particularly those that can make money on harvesting social synergies in conjunction with Adsense. It’s a Pay-Me-Now or Pay-Me-Later offer to Facebook: Play along and leverage your social equity or raise your hand and let your customers know how clueless you are.


Facebook insists it is preserving user privacy by neutering their API for its only stated purpose: “[E]nabling users to share their information with the third party websites and applications they choose.” Instead, in a Casablanca-like statement that gambling is going on (Your winnings, sir) one Charlie Cheever notes Friend Connect “redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users’ knowledge, which doesn’t respect the privacy standards our users have come to expect and is a violation of our Terms of Service.”


I love many parts of this, but none more than the part about privacy standards our users have come to expect. The API enables users to share their data with site and apps they choose but somehow Friend Connect does its dirty work without users’ knowledge. If the API enables user control, then what part of its use is without the users’ knowledge? Is there an Alzheimers standard that somehow slipped in here?


Crunch Network: CrunchBoard because it’s time for you to find a new Job2.0





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Voir en ligne : Facebook’s Glass Jaw

OPML Resources for ReadWriteWeb Readers



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As you may have heard, we're big fans of RSS here at ReadWriteWeb. We've covered many RSS readers, aggregators, sites, and services in the past and have provided RSS tips in posts like "Seven Tips for Making the Most of Your RSS Reader" and "6 Ways to Filter Your RSS Feeds." We also like reading feeds and sharing some of our favorites with our readers. Over the past year or so, we've provided access to many RSS feeds and OPML files we thought our readers would enjoy. However, until now, those files have been spread out amongst our archived posts. Today, you can get access to all the RSS resources we've shared with you right here.



ReadWriteWeb Network



Of course, we have to begin by sharing our own feeds with you. The ReadWriteWeb network has several different feeds you can subscribe to, including:


RWW Network Feeds




Some of the RWW Network writers also maintain their own personal sites you can subscribe to:


RWW Network Bloggers OPML (Download Here)




Or just grab a "Best Of" OPML file for all of these: (Download Here)




RSS/OPML Files We've Shared



Our primary OPML resources come from this January post called "What's Next on the Web: a ReadWriteWeb Toolkit for 2008," where we put together OPML files for the biggest trends in 2008: Open Data, Recommendation, Semantic Web, Mobile, and Visualization. From the post "WikiLeaks, Censorship and the Watchdog Web," we provided readers with many ways to keep track of leaks and news, one of which was a Governement Watchdogs Site OPML file. When we wrote about "How to Find the Weirdest Stuff on the Internet," we provided a "Best of the Weird Hunting Blogs" RSS feed created with Yahoo Pipes. And yesterday, on the article about "Why Gen Y Is Going to Change the Web," we rounded up some of the best Gen Y blogs into one OPML file.



Below you can get access to either the RSS or the OPML files for the feeds we've shared:


ReadWriteWeb 2008 Toolkit OPML Files (Save Each Link to Download File)



ReadWriteWeb 2008 Toolkit RSS Feeds (Subscribe - Copy & Paste to Your Reader)



Government Watchdogs OPML (Download Here)



Best of the Weird Hunting Blogs RSS (Subscribe Here)



Gen Y Greatest Hits OPML (Download Here)




You can preview these RWW feeds in the widget below:



Grazr




Bonus Content!



In the past, Marshall had also put together five of his favorite OPML on his personal site.


International Free Speech News (Download Here)

Not local, not issue specific, not necessarily from any particular perspective but big picture, popular news from folks who focus on environmental issues.

Contains:


Big Picture Eco News (Download Here)


Not local, not issue specific, not necessarily from any particular perspective but big picture, popular news from folks who focus on environmental issues.

Contains:


Non Profit/Net Squared (Download Here)


Feeds from non profit groups using Web 2.0 tools to share news about the non profit sector.

Contains:


Political Audio (Download Here)


Three of the most moving and informative news audio shows online.

Contains:


Vlogs - Video Blog (Download Here) 


Contains:







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Voir en ligne : OPML Resources for ReadWriteWeb Readers

Open Science Thread



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Arguments by authority are one of the most common rhetorical arrows plucked from the quiver of logical fallacies. They're particularly effective among authoritarian groups. For years Einstein's opinion on supernatural phenomena has been used and misused and outright fabricated to prop up various metaphysical claims. A new letter reportedly written by the world's most famous scientist was recently found and auctioned off in which Einstein wrote in part:

TeleUK -- The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this.

Arrgh, religion! Nothing get's me heav'n heathen masses on the Great and Powerful Orange Satan comment'n like religion-n-science. Well, Einstein was a great physicist. But he has religious opinions just like anyone else, and his judgment on other matters, say for example his choice in hairstylists, was not always impressive. So I'm not clear and never have been on why someone would form their own beliefs, pro or con, based on what Einstein thought about God or Shiva or Peter Griffin's Ghost That Never Lies.

  • I link to PZ so I won't have to link directly to the interview, in which Ben Stein whines that evolution doesn't explain gravity and this therefore, means, something bad ... about evolution ...? Yeah, we can't figure it out either.

  • I'll be discussing Carl Zimmer's new book Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life tomorrow on Sunday Kos. In the meantime, feel free to tell us your favorite E. coli related tale.


  • NASA finds evidence of global warming impacting thousands of species. The weird thing is, if you search on Google News there's lots of foreign media outlets carrying the story and only one or two US outlets. It is still our NASA, right?


  • Speaking of Einstein, logical fallacies, and religion, this just in: The Vatican now says "Believing that the universe may contain alien life does not contradict a faith in God" ... More ...




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Voir en ligne : Open Science Thread

Wired News on the new Soulseek client for jailbroken iPhones



"decent speeds downloading music and it imports into your iPhone music library when done  "

Voir en ligne : Wired News on the new Soulseek client for jailbroken iPhones

Condé Nast/Wired acquiert Ars Technica



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Condé Nast vient d’acquérir le populaire blog technologique Ars technica (classé en 5ème position sur le BloggerBoard). Le site intégrera WiredDigital qui est dirigé par Sarah chubb). WiredDigital possédè Wired.com et Reddit (acquis en 2006). Le prix de cette acquisition n’a pas été révélé mais nos sources parlent de $25 millions, comme pour le rachat de Wired.com par Condé Nast en 2006.

C’est donc un nouveau départ pour Ars Technica qui fut fondé en 1998 par Ken “Caesar” Fisher et Jon “Hannibal” Stokes. Ils resteront, ainsi que les 8 autres employés, dans la société détenue par WiredDigital.

Comscore affirme que ArsTechnica possède 1,5 millions de visiteurs uniques par mois pour 4 millions de pages vues mais nous pensons que le site a en fait près de 4,5 millions de visiteurs uniques. L’audience du site est assez proche de celle de Wired.com d’un point de vue démographique.

C’est une nouvelle perte, en revanche, pour Federated Media Publishing, qui vend la publicite sur ArsTechnica (Digg les a quitté l’année dernière pour un deal de $100 millions avec Microsoft). CondéNet s’occupera dorénavant de la publicité.

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Voir en ligne : Condé Nast/Wired acquiert Ars Technica

Japan : Bloggers criticize Greenpeace over whale-meat theft



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The reputation of Greenpeace Japan appears to have dropped a few notches this week, with news that the organization, in order to expose the theft of whale meat by crew members of a whaling research ship, itself stole meat to use as evidence of the crime. In order to seize packages of whale meat, members of Greenpeace Japan admitted to having entered a delivery company's distribution center in Tokyo on April 15th without permission. In total Greenpeace found 23.5 kilograms of whale meat, worth 100,000 to 300,000 yen (or roughly $1000-$3000 USD), smuggled by 12 crewmembers of Kyodo Senpaku Kaisha, Ltd.






News broadcast about the Greenpeace whale-meat revelation on May 15th


The claim by a lawyer representing Greenpeace that: “The group's acts [such as trespassing] weren't illegal because they were attempting to uncover alleged theft” did not go over well with bloggers, however, who questioned the double-standard of committing a crime to expose another crime.


Blogger Kiyotani writes:



捕鯨関係者の脇も甘かったわけですが、このような行為が法治国家で許されるわけはありません。

そのような主張が通るのであれば我々はグリーンピースやその顧問弁護士の犯罪を暴くためには事務所に押し入って書類を押収したり、グリーンピースのメンバーや弁護士を拉致監禁して、自白を強要することも「合法」ということになります。

　今回の騒動ではグリーンピースが環境テロリストかつ犯罪集団であることが明らかになったわけです。当局は破防法をこの団体に適用すべきです。極左暴力集団やオウム真理教と大同小異です。



The whaling authorities were also pretty lax, but this kind of action [by Greenpeace] cannot be allowed in a law-abiding nation.

If this kind of claim is allowed to pass, then it follows that it would be “legal”, in order to expose the crimes of Greenpeace and their legal advisors, to break into their offices, take Greenpeace members and their lawyers captive, and force them to confess.

In the noise surrounding this case, it has become clear that Greenpeace are ecological terrorists, a criminal group. The authorities should apply the Anti-Subversive Authorities Act to this organization. It is essentially the same as violent ultra-left groups or the Aum Shinrikyou religious group.

Blogger gootdk, meanwhile, reads the Wikipedia entry on Japanese research whaling and quotes these lines:



「捕獲調査の副産物は有効利用が条約で義務付けられている」

「一般販売のほか学校給食などの公益事業に供され、その収入は調査捕鯨の費用に充てられている」



“There is an obligation in treaties to make effective use of byproducts from research whaling”

“Apart from general sales, [such byproducts] are furnished for public operations such as in school lunches and so on, and the revenue from this is set aside for expenses of research whaling”

The blogger goes on to note that 10kg or 20kg of whale meat is more than one would need for family use. Still, the position of Greenpeace is not convincing:



だからといって、グリーンピース・ジャパンの行為が許される訳ではありません。

明らかに犯罪です。

少なくとも、この運送会社の信頼を低下させました。

両者とも、法の下間違いのないように処断されることを望みます。



But just because this is so, does not mean that the actions of Greenpeace Japan should be tolerated.

Obviously this is a crime.

At the very least, they have degraded trust in this shipping company.

I hope that both parties are judged so as to prevent mistakes of the law.

Blogger Hamayatti meanwhile agrees with the position of Greenpeace, but not with their strategy:



「グリーンピース」の主張について賛同できる面もある。しかし、捕鯨の違法性を訴えながら、自分たちが盗人をしているようなやり方では説得力もなかろう。違法は違法として処罰されるのを覚悟しての主張こそ、その決意が分かろうというもの。摘発のためだから違法ではないと主張するのは、大義のための戦争と変わりはしない。



There are aspects of the claims by Greenpeace that I agree with. However, to make appeals about the illegality of whale fishing, while at the same time themselves committing an act of robbery, I am not persuaded by this way of doing things. The claim that they were prepared for their crimes to be punished as crimes, this intention is understood. To insist that because the goal is to expose something it is not illegal, there is no difference between this and war [waged] in the name of a cause.
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Voir en ligne : Japan: Bloggers criticize Greenpeace over whale-meat theft

The Pirate Bay File Police Bribery Complaints



"The chief investigating officer in the Pirate Bay case who was revealed as recently working for Warner Bros, has been reported to the police. Yesterday the Pirate Bay crew filed “at least” three complaints, and further people have been reported for bribing the police."

Voir en ligne : The Pirate Bay File Police Bribery Complaints

Wired parent buys Ars Technica — and Webmonkey, too ? [Acquisitions]



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TechCrunch reports that CondeNet, the online arm of Condé Nast and the parent of Wired.com, has bought Ars Technica, a rival technology news site. But if the latest issue of Wired is any indication, that's note the only tech property that's moved to CondeNet recently. On page 24, Wired's June issue announces a new version of Webmonkey, a defunct site for Web developers, under a list of Wired.com features:








He's Back!

Webmonkey was the original Web-developer's resource. now it's reborn as the go-to destination for programmers of all levels. Flex your skills at Webmonkey.com.

The Webmonkey site, which was originally launched by HotWired, the online arm of Wired, in 1996, shows no sign of recent activity, and the old logo hasn't been changed to match the one that appears in Wired. Webmonkey was not part of Condé Nast's $25 million purchase of Wired Digital in 2006 from Lycos, which is now a subsidiary of Korean Internet company Daum.









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La main à la pâte



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Ce que j’aime et trouve fantastique dans l’expérience de Publie.net, c’est que François Bon ait été capable d’aller dans cette aventure, peu d’auteurs en auraient eu les couilles. Ensuite, c’est qu’il nous la fait vivre de l’intérieur, toujours d’un peu plus près. Qu’il nous fait partager cette expérimentation et la richesse d’expérience qu’elle lui apporte.


Dans son dernier texte sur le sujet (à lire, car forcément essentiel), il nous rappelle que “les éditeurs papier n’impriment plus les textes qui nous concernent”. Que la littérature disparaît des librairies et des catalogues des éditeurs. Que le Net est plus qu’un refuge. Il est désormais le seul endroit où exister. “Pour que la littérature pèse, pour que le monde des logiciels et des outils prenne en compte nos textes, nos exigences, à nous de les proposer dès à présent sur le Net.”


François expérimente comment on peut faire un texte pour un écran et non plus une feuille de papier. “Une des réticences à la forme pdf, c’est d’abord le constat : on a de plus en plus souvent à en manipuler, mais dans la plupart des cas, il s’agit de documents traitement de texte, préparés pour l’imprimante de bureau, et transformés tels quels en pdf. Effectivement, rien de plus triste.” S’il s’enthousiame pour Adobe Digital Edition, cet iTunes du .pdf, c’est parce qu’il transforme la lecture du .pdf que l’on connait trop bien, c’est parce qu’“il s’agit véritablement de lecture, et non pas de laborieuse visualisation du pdf”.


De son expérience, il tire des questions qui interrogent d’autres secteurs, comme le monde académique, pour que la littérature et la recherche d’aujourd’hui soient sur les écrans des étudiants d’aujourd’hui. “Il est de notre responsabilité d’installer dans les pratiques numériques les contenus qui nous importent, et c’est tout de suite.”




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Voir en ligne : La main à la pâte

Confirmed : Wired Buying Ars Technica



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ars technica


It seems the rumors reported earlier today by TechCrunch were spot on, and Wired is the proud new owner of Ars Technica. In a call to Alexandra Constantinople, Executive Director of Communications for Wired, she confirmed that, “the story is accurate, but (Wired) won’t be issuing an official statement until next week.”


This is sure to be the number one story on tech blogger’s minds this weekend as we all ponder the possible ramifications of a shrinking tech blogosphere. Ars Technica has always been known more for their in-depth reporting style, and product reviews that possibly go on longer than the amount of time the designers spent working on the product. Reportedly the site will remain as-is, with all current staff staying in place, so it will be interesting to see how exactly Wired will integrate this new content stream into their existing skein.


The news coming today brings to a close a long week of purchases, and pending purchases, with Plaxo being purchased by Comcast, CBS buying CNET and rumors of Carl Icahn sniffing around the corpse of the MicroHoo deal being the biggest. It seems that everyone is in a spending mood as of late, and it does leave one to ponder what mega-deal may be around the next bend, because I get a sinking feeling this isn’t the end of it.


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GMail on Your Desktop Yet?
Marketers Could Hijack Wired’s How-to Pages
Confirmed: Selling Links Will Hurt Your Google Page Rank
Confirmed: eBay Buying StubHub for $310 Million







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Breaking : Condé Nast/Wired Acquires Ars Technica (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)



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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Breaking: Condé Nast/Wired Acquires Ars Technica  —  Condé Nast has acquired popular technology blog Ars Technica (ranked #5 all time on the BloggerBoard), we've confirmed.  The site will become part of Wired Digital (which in turn is under CondéNet, run by Sarah Chubb).

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Voir en ligne : Breaking: Condé Nast/Wired Acquires Ars Technica (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)

How to Set Up a Pirate Radio Station



"The local airwaves a little too boring for your tastes? Take matters into your own hands by starting your own radio station. Follow our guide in Wired.com's How-To Wiki.





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Voir en ligne : How to Set Up a Pirate Radio Station

Scary sign for giant edible "wings" in New York



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Photoshop disasters posted this ad for humungous "wings." The Monte Python sketch below is a good fit:


Customer: What flavor is it? Man: It's a bird mate, it's a bloody bird, it's not any bloody flavor. Albatross!

Customer: It's got to be some flavor, I mean everything's got a flavor. Man: All right, it's bloody albatross flavor, it's bloody sea bloody bird bloody flavor. Albatross!



Customer: Do you get wafers with it?



Man: Course you don't get bloody wafers with it, it's a bloody albatross innit. Albatross!


Link








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Voir en ligne : Scary sign for giant edible "wings" in New York

Beyond Beyond Good & Evil



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SHE ISN'T REAL


Coincidence is a funny thing. There we all are griping that us Euro-folk can’t buy the fabulous adventure-platformer-everythinger cult classic Beyond Good & Evil over Steam, while the US-folk are, no doubt, busy replaying the thing with unfettered joy in their spoilt, spoilt hearts. And then the sequel gets announced. Lummee.

… [visit site to read more]




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Voir en ligne : Beyond Beyond Good & Evil

Why It’s Good to Follow Links



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The excellent folks at io9 do me a solid and link to my AMC column on Speed Racer today, but some of the folks commenting there don’t appear to have actually read the column before commenting, because a fair portion of the comments boil down to “John Scalzi is completely wrong about this because [insert point actually discussed in the column].” At least one of them was nice enough to note he/she didn’t read the column before trying to disprove my point using information I specifically note in the column, though.


Lesson: It’s always a good thing to read what you’re commenting on. Just sayin’.


[Bloglines] [del.icio.us] [Digg] [Furl] [Ma.gnolia] [Propeller] [Reddit] [Sphere] [StumbleUpon] [Technorati] [Email]
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