Using Bacon to Cut Steel

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Is there nothing pork can't do?

SATC2 Sounds Like a Terrible Movie

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From the Lindy West's review in the Stranger:

We've been thinking it for two long years. All of us. Gnawing our cheeks at night, clutching at sweaty sheets, our faces hollow and gray, our once-bright eyes dimmed by the pain of too many questions. Sometimes we cry out, en masse, to a faceless god and a cold, indifferent universe that holds its secrets close. What... rasps the death rattle of our collective sanity. What is the lubrication level of Samantha Jones's 52-year-old vagina? Has the change of life dulled its sparkle? Do its aged and withered depths finally chafe from the endless pounding, pounding, pounding—cruel phallic penance demanded by the emotionally barren sexual compulsive from which it hangs? If I do not receive an update on the deep, gray caverns of Jones, I shall surely die!

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 Read the review- it's better than the movie.

"Everything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You in a Google Search"

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New Rule: Before running for office, politicians must be informed of their rights: that "Everything you say can and will be used against you in a Google search." Now, of course, we all embellish our resumes a little. In college, I described my job of pot dealer as "regional sales associate for a large multi-national firm." But we just had the fifth anniversary of YouTube and the twelfth of Google, and between them, they're killing off a great institution: lying. You just can't lie anymore -- facts are too easy to check, everything is on video, and your wife put a GPS in your glove compartment. Our privacy is gone, our Internet conversations are forever. I even have reason to believe I'm being recorded right now...

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Did anybody think cyclists weren't doping?

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 I'm shocked, shocked to hear this ...

Floyd Landis has sent e-mail messages to several cycling officials in the United States and in Europe in which he admits using performance-enhancing drugs for most of his career.

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Censorship: Know it when you see it?

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Why does porn cause organizations to tie themselves in such knots? First Apple tries to keep the iPhone/iPad pure (completely ignoring the fact that you can surf the web on them) then Wikipedia self destructs because Fox Noise noticed porn on their servers.

As a result of this Wales has relinquished his top level control over the encyclopedia's content. He can no longer add, delete, edit or do anything to a posting. This same release of control was also done across the parent company's other projects as well.

One source told Fox News that Wales had the highest level of control, "he was our leader." Now the source reports that when asked who is in charge, “No one. It’s chaos.”

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So what is this clp.ly thing?

This blog is mostly created using clips and quotes generated by clp.ly. It's a tool that lets me easily grab a quote or a screen clip, format it how I want and paste it into any application that accepts rich text. It's great for turning what would have been a one line "look at this interesting link" blog post or email into something more visually compelling.

But that's only half the story. The other half of clp.ly is the 'Clip this story' button that you see below each post. It lets you grab a visual clip (just click the button) or a quote (select text and click the button) from an article in a way that give the author trackbacks and correct linkbacks at the same time as giving you, the person clipping, a great looking quote or clip.

Why does that matter? Well the web is a link economy, your links out and back are important, it's the primary way people discover your content. By making it easy for people to cite and link clp.ly drives traffic.

Try it - click the "Clip this story" button and paste a quote or image into an email or blog post. Easy!

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Are events like Demo useful?

Quick, can you name a single company from last year’s Demo? I can’t.

From scobleizer.com via clp.ly

Robert Scoble make some interesting points as he looks at the way tech product launches happen (or don't). Worth reading.

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