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    Image of resipsaloquacious resipsaloquacious
    01:10 PM

    In reply to New York Times Afghanistan Ex-Bureau Chief Goes AWOL After She's Promoted
    I can't wait for the film starring Alan Rickman.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    12:37 AM

    In reply to Jenny 8. Lee Takes Buyout; Exodus at NYT Metro Section
    why was 6 scared?

    cuz 7 8 9.
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    Image of DoctorNine DoctorNine
    12/09/09

    In reply to Jenny 8. Lee Takes Buyout; Exodus at NYT Metro Section
    On a side note, what is that thing she is wearing around her neck? A ring of fossilized used condoms? Aboriginal chewed kangaroo neckbone, fastened together with paper clips? Or maybe limited production claymation set supplies from the Mr. Bill Show? What? Please tell me.
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    Image of GlasgowRose GlasgowRose
    12/09/09

    @DoctorNine: Watch out, Bill, she'll eat you up (Oh, oh, here she comes, she's a man-eater...) btw, are those sprinkles in your eyes? Come closer, my little dough-boy...
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    Image of DoctorNine DoctorNine
    12/09/09

    @GlasgowRose: It's not love, IT'S CHOPSTICKS!!!
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    12/09/09

    In reply to Jenny 8. Lee Takes Buyout; Exodus at NYT Metro Section
    Then there's Jenny 8. Lee, who has spent the last two years as one of the creative and daring and agile brains behind City Room

    Well.... she certainly was agile enough to dodge the label "interesting"....
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    Edited by Pope John Peeps II at 12/09/09 8:17 PM Pope John Peeps II was starred Pope John Peeps II was unstarred
    Image of meerkat meerkat
    12/09/09

    In reply to Jenny 8. Lee Takes Buyout; Exodus at NYT Metro Section
    Ha - I thought it said she buys takeout.
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    Image of belltolls belltolls
    12/09/09

    @meerkat: I expect to see her Chinese gourmet specialty foods and cookware store somewhere in SoHo soon. And the Food Network show follows.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    12/09/09

    In reply to Jenny 8. Lee Takes Buyout; Exodus at NYT Metro Section
    Her writing was twee and annoying. Take the money and run, Jen. Oh, and the whole point of making that arm gesture is to create cleavage. Try again.
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    12/09/09

    @BookishLookish: That's more easily said when you're sitting behind a couple of majestic peaks of your own, I imagine.
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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    12/09/09

    @BookishLookish: Thank you. And hate to join the parade, but yes that numeral in her name was distracting. Like, some Chinese restaurant superstition thing. What's wrong with "Eight"? Spelled out at least it would look reassuringly sort of Jewish.
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    Image of Botswana Meat Commission FC Botswana Meat Commission FC
    12/09/09

    @BookishLookish: Amen.
    I h8ted reading her overly-cutesy bullshit.
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    Image of Balsa Wood Balsa Wood
    12/09/09

    @BookishLookish: Jesus, are you gonna talk about your tits again? Because I forgot, are they big?
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    12:49 AM

    @Balsa Wood: Look, I don't know who's responsible, you or your parents, and it doesn't matter anyway. But this is what happens when you browse the internet without SafeSearch being properly activated: You might get occasional, abstract exposure to bewbs.

    Sorry, but it's a rough world out there.
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    Image of Seeräuber Jenny Seeräuber Jenny
    12:58 AM

    @Baroness: You mean her Chinese name wasn't "Sideways Lemniscate"?

    She does seem to have a lot of luck.
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    Edited by Seeräuber Jenny at 12/10/09 12:59 AM Seeräuber Jenny was starred Seeräuber Jenny was unstarred
    Image of Balsa Wood Balsa Wood
    02:13 AM

    @skahammer: Yours big too? Tell us about 'em! Tell us all about 'em!
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    11:30 AM

    @Balsa Wood: Just because your tits are made of a light wood best used to carve out airplanes by Boy Scouts, don't take it out on me, sugar pop. Green is so not your color.
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    Image of Balsa Wood Balsa Wood
    12:51 PM

    @BookishLookish: My tits are used to withstand great amounts of weight in Odyssey of the Mind competitions.

    Okay, that might've been a little awkward/obscure.
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    Image of The Real JR The Real JR
    12/09/09

    In reply to Jenny 8. Lee Takes Buyout; Exodus at NYT Metro Section
    I have that necklace.
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    Image of GlasgowRose GlasgowRose
    12/09/09

    @The Real JR: That's not a necklace. She's making noodles, chopsticks poised for lunch.
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    12/09/09

    In reply to Jenny 8. Lee Takes Buyout; Exodus at NYT Metro Section
    Insist on cash or money order. No cheques. I'm just sayin'.
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    Image of Lymed Lymed
    12/09/09

    In reply to Jenny 8. Lee Takes Buyout; Exodus at NYT Metro Section
    But has Jenny exhausted her appetite after eating Lee?
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    12/09/09

    @Lymed: Unless there's something I don't know, I don't think she's ever been a Romance language teacher in Brooklyn.
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    Image of GlasgowRose GlasgowRose
    12/09/09

    @Smitros: No, but she did romance a language teacher in Brooklyn. (Ba da dum)
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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    12/09/09

    In reply to Jenny 8. Lee Takes Buyout; Exodus at NYT Metro Section
    Has the NYTimes staff dwindled down so far that they all fit inside of one conference room?
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    Image of triplethreat triplethreat
    12/08/09

    In reply to The New iTunes for Magazines (Or an Irrelevant Venture) Is Here!
    Really a masterful series of insights here. Maybe I just set my sights too high after that great party post yesterday. Then again, maybe I didn't. Some posts are going to be better, just like some are going to be worse. Having high hopes could have led to me getting smoked. Then again, I thought it was worth the gamble.

    But you never know. How much would I pay to read Gawker right now? I don't have an e-reader. But am I less likely to come back? Changing that dynamic is what Gawker needs to worry about.
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    Image of ihatetwitter ihatetwitter
    12/08/09

    In reply to The New iTunes for Magazines (Or an Irrelevant Venture) Is Here!
    I hear there's an InStyle Wii demo. Quick, catch those bracelets! Ah, magazines!!!
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    Image of GlasgowRose GlasgowRose
    12/08/09

    In reply to The New iTunes for Magazines (Or an Irrelevant Venture) Is Here!
    Ha: "Today, four prestigious magazine publishers, and News Corp..." Appreciate Murdoch's not in the mag biz, but still qualifies as a veiled swipe in my book - er, tablet/slate/e-thingy.
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    Image of Magister Magister
    12/08/09

    In reply to The New iTunes for Magazines (Or an Irrelevant Venture) Is Here!
    I only know what's in the post and under the link and yes, my initial instinct was to make a Pathfinder joke.

    But I don't see why this couldn't complement a publication's website and perhaps provide them with some extra income.

    Off the top of my head - A lot of magazine sites don't include the pretty pictures and this appears to let them to publish in the original layout.

    Right now it's just the big boys, but if they open it up to smaller publications, it could be a boon for them.

    I know that I sometimes see something on Hulu that's on a network, I don't get, so I'll sample it. The same could be true with this service, though it may sound a little like Pathfinder, but a one-stop electronic newsstand could introduce someone to a tiny publication from a regional source.

    And though it may not be part of the current thinking, but if they make some of the additional advertising location-aware, they'll have another source of income, they can't access right now. Not to mention that adding location info to their formally static ads could give their sales a needed boost.

    (For example, A Starbucks ad could include a map to the nearest location or a Holiday Inn Express advertisement could list those on the road ahead.)
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    Image of Magister Magister
    12/08/09

    @Magister: PS) Location-aware advertising could also open up untapped ad markets. Right now, there's not a lot of supermarket ads in magazines because supermarkets are regional, but if the magazine knew where you were in the country, they could serve you whatever Kroger division is nearby.

    (Though of course, your e-reader would have to know where you are)
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    Image of Gabriel Snyder Gabriel Snyder
    12/08/09

    In reply to The New iTunes for Magazines (Or an Irrelevant Venture) Is Here!
    You shouldn't let the horrible buzz words make you too bearish on the e-Reader versions of magazines. What magazine people are good at -- making pretty packages out of words and pictures over the course of days, weeks and months -- has never translated well to the web. The magazine publishers' various stabs at creating ways to sell digital versions of their work to people with shiny new e-Readers represent a much more promising path to survival than anything newspapers have come up with.
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    Image of sweetpickles sweetpickles
    12/08/09

    @Gabriel Snyder: A valiant effort, for sure. But I'm not convinced. In some ways, it seems a lot like they're trying to sell me a glossy .pdf. And that did not work the last time. However, if they start shutting down their sites in favor of e-reader content, that could be a huge shift. But competing against the web is never a safe bet. Someone can turn mediocre content into a huge numbers game just by offering it up for free.
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