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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    11/22/09

    In reply to Bad News: Newspaper Circulations Going Up!
    Canada perfected this little scheme back when the National Post was founded and trying to inflate its numbers.
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    11/22/09

    In reply to Bad News: Newspaper Circulations Going Up!
    I went to UNLV right at the ending cusp of LV's glory days (More classic hotels on the Strip than douchebag attractors, Tarkanian was still coaching, slots still dropped coins etc) and even in 1993, with under a million residents, LV still was a two-newspaper town.

    In fact I still have my mint-condition copies of the LV Sun's farewell to the Dunes Hotel special issue .. though, little did the Sun know they were about to implode themselves :[] .. good times though.
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    01:37 AM

    @lobstr: I forgot! Yes! You're a UNLV grad. For the record, the Sun's still alive, it's just a fold-out in the RJ, now. A 20something year-old reporter at the Sun won the Pulitzer earlier this year for Public Service reporting on construction project deaths. Must've chapped some old asses at the RJ fairly well.
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    11/22/09

    In reply to Bad News: Newspaper Circulations Going Up!
    I would like a paper machete hat, please.

    And then, look the hell out.
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    Image of Glib and Bitchy Glib and Bitchy
    11/22/09

    @skahammer: Ouch. Paper cut!
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    Image of Sergio Hernandez Sergio Hernandez
    11/22/09

    @skahammer: Ha, beat me to it.
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    11/22/09

    In reply to Bad News: Newspaper Circulations Going Up!
    If the internet had been set up originally on a per-fee basis, maybe there wouldn't be resistance to the idea of internet-only news. "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?" comes to mind.

    I was hoping for the death of print media if only to save the forests.
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    Image of Swifter Swifter
    11/22/09

    @Lysergic Asset: It is necessary to burn the forests in order to save them.
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    Edited by Swifter at 11/22/09 5:37 PM Swifter was starred Swifter was unstarred
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    11/22/09

    @Lysergic Asset: Compuserve, payable by the minute. Something called The Source offered all sorts of university (East Mississippi Barbers', I think) research opportunity at $7 per minute. Other deep resources offered a cover charge to the Inner Sanctum. This was connectivity in the late 80s, when I started. Even the local "tree board," the BBS which organized chatter so it went on forever like an organization chart, began charging.

    Then somebody said, hey, everybody's still listening to radio and watching teevee. What's their business plan again?
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    11/22/09

    @Tremonius: Damned if they do, fucked if they don't... I wonder who's turning a profit on web news.

    #tips
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    11/20/09

    In reply to German Newspaper Feud Gets Penis-y
    Did anyone else get the "Pimmel über Berlin" (Penis over Berlin) pun? It riffs on "Der Himmel über Berlin" (The Heaven over Berlin) title of that famous Wim Wenders film aka Wings of Desire.

    No? Just me? OK, I'm a dork.
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    Image of Joe Mitchell's Secret Joe Mitchell's Secret
    11/20/09

    In reply to The Fallacy Behind Efforts to Save 'Public Service Journalism'
    What amazes me; not one sentence about the writing. Snappy? Ponderous? Meh?
    @Zirinsky
    Congrats, you get the blue-ribbon today.
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    Image of BunnySkull BunnySkull
    11/20/09

    In reply to German Newspaper Feud Gets Penis-y
    Now why doesn't the NYT do a Murdoch mural like that on the side of their building? These German are taking us to school on how a real editorial feud is handled.
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    11/20/09

    In reply to The Fallacy Behind Efforts to Save 'Public Service Journalism'
    So, do you think Gawker is a better website now than it was the day it launched?
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/20/09

    In reply to The Fallacy Behind Efforts to Save 'Public Service Journalism'
    Well, in the old days before child labor laws, urchins were their distribution system, so maybe it's 2 steps forward, 3 back
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    Image of Hiroine Protagonist Hiroine Protagonist
    11/20/09

    In reply to Four Ways Listicles Make Us Immortal, According to Umberto Eco
    Thanks Aristotle.
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    Image of shostakobitch shostakobitch
    11/20/09

    In reply to Four Ways Listicles Make Us Immortal, According to Umberto Eco
    After Sarah Palin outrages the very last person on earth and a certain newly dead French anthropologist's predictions come to pass, new species will evolve on this planet to cope with ever-changing conditions. These animals might be intelligent enough to foster their own version of society. Perhaps even a society superior to ours according to however one might judge such things.

    However, inevitably, the sun will explode and turn Earth into a cinder. Any fragment of humanity that might have existed will be vaporized. All that will remain will be some vestigial Voyager-like exploration spacecraft and radio signals that get asymptotically weaker with each light year they travel.

    So really, Umberto Eco's reasons why lists provide us with an illusion of order in nature and immortality are the same reasons we watch "Sex Rehab w/ Dr. Drew" or listen to Kendra Jade ride the Sybian; because we are witnessing what will certainly be the last evidence of humanity. And the gravity of that is undeniable.
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    Image of blix blix
    11/20/09

    @shostakobitch: Golly, you should write books for children.
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    Image of shostakobitch shostakobitch
    11/20/09

    @blix: i do. this is john lithgow.

    #tips
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    Image of TedSez TedSez
    11/20/09

    In reply to Four Ways Listicles Make Us Immortal, According to Umberto Eco
    30 Red-Hot Sex Secrets!
    15 Power Foods That Fight Fat!
    10 Fantastic Beauty Tips From Around the World!
    5 Ab Moves That Really Work!
    1 Way to Convince Yourself That Life Isn't a Great Big Chaotic Mess, Despite All Evidence to the Contrary!
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    Image of blix blix
    11/20/09

    @TedSez: Reminds me to renew my subscription to Men's Health.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    11/20/09

    @blix: I always wonder though "aren't there ONLY 5 ab moves"? I mean, how many could there possibly be that don't actually work? And how many could there really be in total.

    Is there really some rube out there doing the "180 degree backwards standing ab fold spine breaking crunch"?
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    11/20/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: There is and he's totally ripped.
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    Image of senatormayer senatormayer
    11/20/09

    In reply to German Newspaper Feud Gets Penis-y
    That's what trying to conquer the world does to a country. You wind up with cocks on the sides of buildings.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    11/20/09

    In reply to Four Ways Listicles Make Us Immortal, According to Umberto Eco
    Queen's list of things to do:

    1) have myself a real good time
    2) float around in ecstasy
    3) be shooting star leaping through the skies
    4) defy laws of gravity (like a tiger)
    5) be a racing car passing by (like Lady Godiva)
    6) go go go
    7) burn through skies
    8) YEAH! (note: two hundred degrees)
    9) travel at speed of light
    10) make a supersonic man out of you
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    Image of goetz goetz
    11/20/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: Journey's list of things She loves:

    1) to laugh
    2) to sing
    3) everything
    4) to move
    5) to groove
    6) the loving things
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    11/20/09

    In reply to Four Ways Listicles Make Us Immortal, According to Umberto Eco
    Love his writing, and now he has even explained my List habit. That Umberto knows where it's at.
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    11/20/09

    @forwardmotion: He's a semiotics professor. He's an expert in the science of visual symbols. Visual symbolism impacts our lives in profound ways that we can seldom consciously acknowledge.
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    Image of hilikusopus hilikusopus
    11/20/09

    @snugbug: That was too wordy, snugbug. Is there a symbol that would've sufficed?
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    11/20/09

    @hilikusopus: ‡
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    11/21/09

    @snugbug: Wooord! Where it's at!
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