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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    11/20/09

    In reply to Yahoo's Lesbian 'Don Juan' Backhands Lindsay Lohan
    If the `spawn of a former Yahoo CEO' demands of a bouncer "just fucking Google me, you dumb fuck" then the search wars are already lost, and Microsoft is like yesterday's cavalry.
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    11/20/09

    In reply to Yahoo's Lesbian 'Don Juan' Backhands Lindsay Lohan

    Ok, I admit it. I want to see her sex video. You know there's at least one out there, and it has to be good. That mouth was designed for one thing.
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    Image of nicepony nicepony
    11/20/09

    In reply to Yahoo's Lesbian 'Don Juan' Backhands Lindsay Lohan
    As my grandmother said; You get the face you deserve.
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    11/19/09

    In reply to Yahoo's Lesbian 'Don Juan' Backhands Lindsay Lohan
    She always looks like a really mediocre tranny Mariah Carey impersonator.
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    Image of Magister Magister
    11/19/09

    In reply to Yahoo's Lesbian 'Don Juan' Backhands Lindsay Lohan
    She's quite the Yahooligan!
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    11/19/09

    In reply to Yahoo's Lesbian 'Don Juan' Backhands Lindsay Lohan
    Oh, almost forgot. Speaking of fameballs -- I was driving along minding my own business, and then BOOM there she was, Julia Allison, in my car, selling me a Sony Vaio. She had a sexy voice, but wow was the whole experience creepy. I nearly drove off the road into a new eurostyle McDonalds where they were serving up thick, rich cappuccinos, crowned with creamy, delicious foam.
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    Image of ifstone ifstone
    11/11/09

    In reply to Über-Programmer Ditches Yahoo Over 'Lame' Microsoft Deal
    Someone "invented" PHP? I'd always assumed it had plopped out of the collective asses of a thousand webmonkeys. Seriously, if I'd invented PHP, I wouldn't be bragging about it. #yahoo
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    Image of nirreskeya nirreskeya
    11/11/09

    @ifstone: I wish you didn't have a star so I could promote your comment. #yahoo
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    Image of TheHonJudgeSmails TheHonJudgeSmails
    10/30/09

    In reply to Monuments to Hubris: The New Tech HQs That Harbinger Doom
    Has Valleywag been outsourced to Pakistan? #yahoo
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    10/26/09

    In reply to How to Blow $3.5 Billion
    How do you pronounce "Geocities," anyway? Is it "gee-oh-cities," or "gee-ahh-sit-ees?" Hard "g" or soft? These are the big questions. #yahoo
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    Image of SidAndFinancy SidAndFinancy
    10/26/09

    @BadUncle: Just google it. Or go ogle it. Either way.
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    10/26/09

    @SidAndFinancy: I prefer to Gogol. But I am a Dead Soul. #yahoo
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    10/26/09

    In reply to How to Blow $3.5 Billion
    The day the animated homepage with music died. #yahoo
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    Image of goetz goetz
    10/26/09

    In reply to How to Blow $3.5 Billion
    Awhhh. Goodbye, first website. You were never very pretty, and then geocities pimpled you with ads. #yahoo
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    Image of belltolls belltolls
    10/26/09

    In reply to How to Blow $3.5 Billion
    Is my AOL Hometown page still up? I know my Tripod page is. #yahoo
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    Image of TheAlmanac TheAlmanac
    10/27/09

    @belltolls: AOL Hometown closed its doors late last year...all former links now redirect to a post from AOL saying as much.

    Angelfire and Tripod are still safe. :) #yahoo
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    10/27/09

    @TheAlmanac: That's good information. Now, I have been looking for my excite.com email password ever since this post went up. Do you know how hard it is to remember stuff from 1996?! #yahoo
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    Image of Matt Cherette Matt Cherette
    10/23/09

    In reply to Yahoo CEO Lays Off Workers, Not Swear Words

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    Image of TANUKIII TANUKIII
    10/21/09

    In reply to Yahoo Lap Dancers the Latest in a Chorus Line of Tech Sexism Scandals
    Speaking as a Taiwanese living in Taiwan, while I don't work in the tech industry, because practically almost all of my close friends are, including my boyfriend, I can tell you that rampant sexism is the norm in Taiwan and not just in Taiwanese tech companies, though it's definitely worse in the tech industry for many many complex sociocultural reasons that I won't go into.

    Booth babes (called "showgirls" or "SG" here. No kidding.) is what draws the local crowd to various computer-related trade shows. I've never ever heard any geek talk about any product he sees at any trade show. The trade shows are all about snapping pics of scantily clad SGs. Virtually all Taiwanese male geeks are amateur photographers and own a high-end camera because of this. Albums of SGs are everywhere after big trade shows, and young girls vie to land jobs like these. Girls who work as SGs are really proud of what they do. Having an SG girlfriend is the ultimate dream of all male geeks here.

    Random evidence that I googled out with generic search terms: A recent Engadget Chinese edition news item [chinese.engadget.com]

    Rough translation:

    Check out if this year's IT Month guiding angels are gonna be hot enough!

    While IT Month is still a couple months away, preparations are already underway, and of course SGs are the focus of the event. (We aren't gonna ignore this!) While the audience's attention is generally on the vendors' SGs, most people don't know that the event has official "guiding angel" SGs, too!

    Guiding angels are primarily sweet, healthy, "refreshing" girls. (Translator's note: it's kinda hard to translate this. It's purported to mean that these are not aggressive, dangerous sexpots. Just passive sexpots who will seem to be unable to fend themselves against your manly advances.) They will tell you about the trends in tech products, teach you how to use them, play Solitaire with you on a multi-touch screen (there won't be a couch for you two to do it on though. Dream on.) It's sooooo educational!!

    (What follows is a call to readers to cast votes in the official guiding angels competition. It's boring, so I'll skip on translating the rest.)

    At my boyfriend's company, at their annual end-of-year employee feasts, female employees clamor to don skimpy outfits to be voted as the hottest babes of the year and the winners offer kisses to their aging male execs. (No counterpart activity for men, of course.) Hiring ultra attractive receptionists is viewed as part of the essential employee benefit package and companies compete on this front. I've had friends who decide whether to change job on how hot a given company's receptionists are. While this doesn't happen at every company, companies that have real cash and need to compete for talent generally do this.

    HOWEVER, hack days usually are really all about the craft and are devoid of SGs. Taiwanese hackers go to trade shows to ogle on hot girls and hack days to meet peers. What Yahoo Taiwan did really is outside the norm. It only means that Yahoo Taiwan is naive enough about what people outside Taiwan think of such things, not that they are more sexist than average. #yahoo
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    10/20/09

    In reply to Yahoo Lap Dancers the Latest in a Chorus Line of Tech Sexism Scandals
    Um, making fun of foreigners and peoples' bodies isn't sexism; it's just plain bigotry. If you lumped them all under THAT rather powerful word, you might get a little more momentum behind the movement to ban this kind of assoholism. #yahoo
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    Image of Meiyou Wenti Meiyou Wenti
    10/20/09

    @raincoaster: Like I have said before, you can't judge foreign cultures by US standards... If it rubs you the wrong way, then never go there. #yahoo
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    10/21/09

    @Meiyou Wenti: Honey, I'm not a Yank. #yahoo
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