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lobstr
03/01/09

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I haven't read such stirring journalism since I read that story about Lorem Ipsum...
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Tremonius
02/28/09

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Some web authoring tools offer a style format and it's already filled with text of the blahblah variety so you know where to go to fill in your own. It's large-print easy-read designing. That's what this looks like, only they published the matrix.
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Andrew Fenwick
02/28/09

@Tremonius: That may be so, but it's a rather peculiar post to have within the music section of the site. they could have at least put a sigur rós mention in there.
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Tremonius
03/01/09

@Andrew Fenwick: I have this idea, see, for a remake of Network, only instead of a schizophrenic newsguy it's a website which inadvertently posts the blank design matrix, which makes everyone laugh, ha ha, and there's a million original hits in 24 hours, and it's off to the races, and the plot is how to keep hidden the secret recipe while buying off the web tool marketing operation.

Some say there are no accidents, but I say there is little else. The Bard made a blog about a solitary statesman standing up for his fallen leader and chasing the bad guys out of town, but what really happened was, the opportunist Marc Antony noted the response of the mob when he accidentally displayed the rented cloak of the deceased Caesar. Read it in Plutarch, like Shakespeare did. The Bard stirs in a lot of volition.
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miss_msry
02/28/09

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And the Rocky Mountain Times died for your sins.
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MincnglyWhrdL'mer
02/28/09

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because it never gets old.

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MincnglyWhrdL'mer
02/28/09

(did someone say iceland?)

(now in stereo. because I hate it when gawker collapses images. neener, neener)
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MisterHippity
02/28/09

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I screen-grabbed this headline from msnbc.com yesterday:

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Wrapitup
02/28/09

@MisterHippity: There's a Dick in the Box joke here somewhere.
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TheUptightMidwesterner
02/28/09

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The Trentonian is the best reason in the world why we need print journalism. You need to walk by the newstand or paper box and see the headline. Then you can wonder if you read it right, and let it bug you, or you can just back up and look again.
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Thatcornellguy
02/28/09

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I mean, print journalists aren't even trying anymore...
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LatestBy
02/28/09

@Thatcornellguy: I think it's analogous to a terminal cancer patient who keeps smoking. When your death warrant is signed, it's pretty hard to care.
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seat_5a
02/28/09

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The Trentonian is known for their crazy headlines. I believe that when a nearby mental hospital caught on fire, they led with a screaming headline that said "ROASTED NUTS."
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Tremonius
02/28/09

@seat_5a: There is a novel with a title derived from a news report the authors had heard many generations ago about a fire in a zoo. "And the Hippos Were Boiled in their Tanks." Horrible image, and the story is about a murder of one who either did or didn't resemble Swinburne, which means, like all of them.
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lalaland13
02/24/09

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Trying to jail people who traffic in pot is one thing. Arresting kids who have an ounce or two of pot, then demanding they tell you stuff about Michael Phelps, is another thing entirely.
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BadUncle
02/24/09

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Mullet periwigs are required in court, down there? Carry on with that legal syllogisms, Sir Bubba, and ensure that as long as weed is illegal, people will die from its trade.
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Private Hangnail
02/24/09

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I rather enjoy those people who are able to make Hee Haw skits appear to be the height of sophistication.
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Jenniferhdaniel
02/24/09

@Private Hangnail: Where oh where are you tonight? Why did you leave me here all alone? I searched the world over and thought I found true love. You met another and Plffffft! you were gone.
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dado
02/24/09

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Ellie Mae looks horrible.
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TableNine
02/24/09

@dado: ha!
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BookishLookish
02/24/09

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That wig is the height of fashion in South Carolina.
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blix
02/24/09

@BookishLookish: The higher the hair the closer to the Lord.
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joefry
02/24/09

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Is it 1781 in South Carolina?
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BookishLookish
02/24/09

@joefry: And it always shall be.
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gawkimo
02/24/09

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I had a friend who began drinking, drove fast in traffic, and is dead.
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