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    10/30/09

    In reply to Is Google Feeling Less Lucky Today?
    Maybe you went to a site this past week that had a Subaru ad disguised as a malware attack. #google
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Is Google Feeling Less Lucky Today?
    [lifehacker.com] #google
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Is Google Feeling Less Lucky Today?
    "I know what you're thinkin': 'Does he want 6,000,000,000 porn sites or only 5,000,000,000?' Well, seein' as how this is Firefox 3.5.4, the most powerful browser in the world and can blow your buttons clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well do ya, punk?" #google
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Is Google Feeling Less Lucky Today?
    SO HOW DO I FIX IT? #google
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Is Google Feeling Less Lucky Today?
    I'm gonna guess there's internal goofiness happening behind the Goog-curtain.

    A friend who works at Google NYC currently has his gmail setting on ""At least google.com did not go down." #google
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Is Google Feeling Less Lucky Today?
    Gawker doesn't read Lifehacker? They've been talking about this for a while. #google
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Is Google Feeling Less Lucky Today?
    I was wondering when someone would discover my evil master plan. Just wait until the next time you sign on to Twitter and find that my super-virus has replaced every # sign with a little picture of an armadillo. The Internet is powerless before my might!

    Oh, also, I've been mixing up people's soup orders at Bennigan's...

    MWAHAHAHAHA!!! #google
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    10/30/09

    @vitajex:
    Not that there's anything wrong with armadillos per se . . . #google
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Is Google Feeling Less Lucky Today?
    Windows and Firefox here and everything is normal--at least in terms of search engines. The rest of my life is as buggy as Vista. #google
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Is Google Feeling Less Lucky Today?
    I'm on Firefox and Windows at the moment. Just checked the Google home page and it has the two buttons per usual. #google
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    10/30/09

    @LeftCoastLady: ditto. #google
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    10/30/09

    @LeftCoastLady: Ditto, too. I am also on the Left Coast. Could this mean something?

    Oh. Sorry. I forgot this isn't the Glenn Beck thread. #google
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    10/21/09

    In reply to What's the Worst Beat in American Journalism?
    Are
    You
    Kidding
    Me?

    I'd kill for that job. I'm serious. What an incredible job that must be. Think of the stories!

    Sure, it'll kill your soul. But right now, I'm a gossip blogger. Soul-killing without the possibility of being actually important. #journalismism
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    10/21/09

    @raincoaster: You are assuming that the government killing people is considered important in Texas. Trust me...to most, it's not. #journalismism
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    10/22/09

    @Atilla the Bun: But you wouldn't be writing FOR Texans. Can they even read? #journalismism
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    10/22/09

    @raincoaster: Hey now, I'm a Texan. And yes, some of us can read. But I wouldn't be surprised if executions in Texas received more news coverage out of state. Executions happen so frequently here, but they rarely make the front page. Considering that the majority in Texas consider executions such a triumph of justice, that is a shame.
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    Image of hot_kachina hot_kachina
    10/21/09

    In reply to What's the Worst Beat in American Journalism?
    The Texecutions beat - it's what you make of it! Steve Blow, longtime columnist for The Dallas Morning News, has long had a series listing what the condemned man's last meal was. In fact, when there was some loud opposition about the lack of taste (see what I did there?) the subject was dropped, only to be swiftly renewed after even more people complained that it was legitimate news.

    Fascinating stuff. Just one example: [www.dallasnews.com]
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    10/21/09


    @hot_kachina: An artist named James Reynolds did an interesting project, "Last Suppers"--recreating + photographing the last meal choices of Death Row inmates. It's both touching and creepy:

    [www.jwgreynolds.co.uk] #journalismism
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    10/21/09

    @snugbug: Thanks for this. This is very powerful imagery. #journalismism
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    10/21/09

    @dontread: Yes. It's significant art, I think. Because it wordlessly and elegantly challenges our knee-jerk reactions to people on Death Row. It's so hard to gleefully wish them dead when you see that their last wish was for fried chicken or a pack of gum. It humanizes them all over again. It's nibble-worthy food for thought. #journalismism
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    10/21/09

    @snugbug: And always on institution-orange plates. Orange is my favorite colour! I never thought of it as background for a pastiche of death, gazing into the abyss. Sad. But on the other hand, you have the cutest expressions -- "nibble-worthy" indeed! #journalismism
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    10/21/09

    @dontread: And Shane Koyzcan, multiple-time poetry Grand Slam champ, has an amazing piece about having a drink at 10am with the chef who prepared the condemned man's last meal. He'd just prepared the meal for the man who killed his (the chef's) brother. #journalismism
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    10/21/09

    @snugbug: I agree. I've honestly cried reading these lists of last meals before. Yeah, maybe that's taking the bleeding-heart liberal thing too far, but I've met people on death row before. And no doubt most of them are awful people, but they are still human beings and knowing that they want their last meal to be, say, an ice-cream sundae is just heartbreaking to me. #journalismism
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    Image of naugahydeinplainsight naugahydeinplainsight
    10/21/09

    In reply to What's the Worst Beat in American Journalism?
    I could not believe that while Texas continues to execute people, some papers there do not run anything -- staff or wires -- when it does. Whether people favor or oppose the death penalty, readers should know what the state is doing in their name.
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    10/21/09

    In reply to What's the Worst Beat in American Journalism?
    Whoever keeps getting sent to write special reports on Detroit. Trying to draw some sort of uplifting moral conclusion is so awful that they all just end up saying "Hey, at least the Red Wings are usually pretty good!" #journalismism
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    10/21/09

    In reply to What's the Worst Beat in American Journalism?
    Norm MacDonald once said the worst job in America wass "assistant crackwhore." The newsroom equivalent has to do with being on the copydesk, obviously... #journalismism
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    10/21/09

    @ZiggyStardust: Also, the correct answer could be "Andrew Belonsky." #journalismism
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    10/23/09

    @ZiggyStardust: He had it pretty good until that whole thing with Natasha. #journalismism
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    10/21/09

    In reply to What's the Worst Beat in American Journalism?
    Not a beat, really, but my ex once applied for a job "editing" rubber stamps. Like, those stamps people have made so they don't have to write the same thing over and over again? Yeah. Somebody edits those. #journalismism
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