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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    12/03/09

    In reply to Soft Porn for Media Junkies: The Nifty Tablet Demo from Sports Illustrated
    The gambling potential of this device is just limitless. Also, if they can create proprietary files for their comic book content (Time Warner owns DC Comics), they will sell a godzillion of these things.
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    Image of Tart of Darkness Tart of Darkness
    12/02/09

    In reply to The United States of Consumerism, Interactive Edition
    We spent Black Friday totally off the grid. Didn't even miss my 'puter which shocked me.
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    Image of Claire Buoyant Claire Buoyant
    12/02/09

    In reply to The United States of Consumerism, Interactive Edition
    I'm also curious how this data is aggregated. Zoom in to Chicago, for instance, and you'll see it has practically no activity, which makes no sense at all.
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    Image of Claire Buoyant Claire Buoyant
    12/02/09

    In reply to The United States of Consumerism, Interactive Edition
    The linked site says the color corresponds to transaction activity (yellow = light, red = heavy). How did you get from there to sellers vs. buyers?
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    Image of Rozelle’s Bagman Rozelle’s Bagman
    12/02/09

    @Claire Buoyant: Yeah, it's just e/w volume, which makes this rather meh. And a relief, we have enough problems without running a trade deficit with rural America.
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    Image of taco-flavored-kisses taco-flavored-kisses
    12/02/09

    @Claire Buoyant: yeah exactly. In fact, I would imagine that a huge percentage of ebay items SOLD now come from urban warehouses and operating centers (which includes the so-called coastal elite here) as selling on ebay has become increasing more a corporate opportunity to sell in bulk or push inventory.

    The point of this article is based entirely on an assumption...

    ..though the graphic is fun to ponder.
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    Image of friend_of_a_friend friend_of_a_friend
    12/02/09

    @Claire Buoyant: If you hover over the dots it shows you the number of buyers versus sellers in that dot. Many more sellers in no-mans-land.
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    Image of Claire Buoyant Claire Buoyant
    12/02/09

    @friend_of_a_friend: I'm not saying that rural areas aren't seller-heavy (that may be the case, based on information from other sources), but we can't infer that from the data shown from the linked site. Hover over a few urban areas (Washington DC and Houston TX are among the ones I found) and you'll see that red doesn't necessarily indicate more buyers than sellers.
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    Image of Magister Magister
    12/03/09

    @Claire Buoyant:
    DC doesn't count, they're selling influence.
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    Image of Swifter Swifter
    12/02/09

    In reply to The United States of Consumerism, Interactive Edition
    This is interesting because usually the sale of a Bill of Goods goes the other way.
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    Image of tongue-tied tongue-tied
    12/02/09

    @Swifter: Lots of attics full of stuff out there I guess.
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    Image of MattGaymon MattGaymon
    11/29/09

    In reply to David Carr's Requiem For a Media Scene: "Goodbye to Some of That"
    That line made me think of Unico in the Island of Magic:

    [www.youtube.com]
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    Image of krismry krismry
    11/29/09

    In reply to David Carr's Requiem For a Media Scene: "Goodbye to Some of That"
    But that ending! Makes the world sound as if thirty is the new sixty.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/29/09

    In reply to David Carr's Requiem For a Media Scene: "Goodbye to Some of That"
    I think the town cars and 4-star hotels are gone for some time. I think the model for the serious stuff developed by talkingpointsmemo.com and for the fun stuff by the Gawker empire are vast improvements and bode well for the future

    50 years ago, the trade had highborn WASP men speaking as the voice of god, and lowborn WASP men twiddling away on the other stuff

    There's less of both now, and that's not a bad thing
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    Image of jburnaway jburnaway
    11/26/09

    In reply to The Gawker Sarah Palin Slam Book: Bid on This Literary Treasure for Charity
    Foster, your mock/serious excitement almost makes me want to bid... unfortunately, I am only about 8 drinks into the night..... give me 4 more beers and I will SO win this thing
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    11/27/09

    @jburnaway: Not at all mock! I am totes serious. You need to get more drunk and bid the fuck out of this thing. #TAXDEDUCTIBLE.
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    Image of jburnaway jburnaway
    11/27/09

    @Foster Kamer: #TAXDEDUCTIBLE =best hashtag EVER... and i just sobered up enough to realize sloane crosley signed it... ugh... cruel world!
     Reply
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    Image of srhoades srhoades
    11/26/09

    In reply to British Sunday Times Writer Who Thinks New York City Pretty Much Sucks: A Formal Response
    Is this angry, disjointed rant, so short on wit and humour but long on adolescent insecurity and defensiveness, really representative of the allegedly coolest city on the planet? What a shame.

    Myself, I can't quite imagine being proud of living on a grid, and can't really see why Londoners should feel inadequate about the civic planning skills of the Romans.

    And, yes we're very proud of you winning the World Series again this year. Well done, Yankees. Which other countries were invited to play, again?

    I'm rather fond of both cities, actually, but must say I prefer the subtler humour of the Brits. Saying that things suck over and over again tends to get a bit tedious.

    Oh, by the way, I'm from Cape Town. You should visit some time. Fine place.
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    Image of allyzay allyzay
    11/30/09

    @srhoades: I once got into a lengthy argument with a bunch of Brits about whether or not cleats were, in fact, called "baseball boots." You guys do not want to be invited to play against the Yankees, stop fronting.
     Reply
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    Image of Jamie Peck Jamie Peck
    11/25/09

    In reply to The Gawker Sarah Palin Slam Book: Bid on This Literary Treasure for Charity
    Sorry to bust yr ballz again Foster, but I didn't write that ish about wolves. Anyone who knows me will tell you that my writing isn't half as legible as that.
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    11/25/09

    @Hunter_Suicide: Surprises! Well then. You signed, didn't you? Mysteries!
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    Image of Jamie Peck Jamie Peck
    11/25/09

    @Foster Kamer: no, didn't think I was fancy enough. Note the wistful look on my face as I watch Bercovici go to town.
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    Edited by Jamie Peck at 11/25/09 4:34 AM Jamie Peck was starred Jamie Peck was unstarred
    Image of misslinda misslinda
    11/24/09

    In reply to The Gawker Sarah Palin Slam Book: Bid on This Literary Treasure for Charity
    Yikes! Bidding is over a thousand bucks and nine days to go! You're over the limit for what I can get away with without my husband saying "what the hell did you buy???? You're NEVER even gonna to wear those shoes! I bet you can't even walk in them. Walk. Yes, now, WALK! You look like a moron and you're gonna kill yourself in those, enjoy the five hundred dollar blisters, idiot. And change your emergency contact info for when they cart you off to the emergency room in the wahmbulance, cause if it's a shoe-related injury, I ain't comin to get you."
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    Image of momof3wildkids momof3wildkids
    11/24/09

    @misslinda: It is back down to $700ish.... what happened?

    My husband would say something similar about shoes.....
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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    11/24/09

    @momof3wildkids: Oh really...hmm...another couple of days and it'll be down into my price range! And if I got another copy of her book (bargain bin, natch), I could strap them to my feet and wear them as shoes (just anticipating the "what the hell are you going to do with that? You're not even going to read it, and if you are, it's just going to make you angry. At least you can wear a pair of expensive shoes. Idiot." rant).
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    Image of momof3wildkids momof3wildkids
    11/24/09

    In reply to The Gawker Sarah Palin Slam Book: Bid on This Literary Treasure for Charity
    You are charging $4 for shipping? Really? Couldn't Denton spring for the four bucks?
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    11/24/09

    @momof3wildkids: I just filled it in because the page wasn't saving. WHATEVER. I'll pay the $4.
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    Image of momof3wildkids momof3wildkids
    11/24/09

    @Foster Kamer: Just giving you shit Foster. Great idea! Save the Children does wonderful work.

    Still no 'full-frontal' head shot of you? I'd throw in some change for that.
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    Image of Jim Topoleski Jim Topoleski
    11/24/09

    In reply to The Gawker Sarah Palin Slam Book: Bid on This Literary Treasure for Charity
    wow I remember my ex girlfriend LOVING to write so called "slam books"

    She had hundreds of them in high school she passed along to friends, I even found some of them long after we broke up.

    I never knew she stole the idea from someone else. For some reason I always assumed she was deranged enough to have thought of it herself.
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    Image of The Real JR The Real JR
    11/24/09

    In reply to The Gawker Sarah Palin Slam Book: Bid on This Literary Treasure for Charity
    Item specifics - Fiction & Literature Books
    Format: Hardcover
    Publication Year: 2009
    Topic: --
    Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Signed Language: English
    Condition: Brand New
    Subject: Folklore, Mythology

    LOLOLOL
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