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You gotta love all of th “Year-end roundups” that publishers churn out. These seemingly ubiquitous annual lists of greatest artists and albums, shampoos, lip-stick, and every imaginable household product. We’re resting bettwe knowing that all human information and processes (including falling in love, and dealing with crisis) can be wrestled into bundles of 10. In that spirit, Slate proudly presents, the top 10 civil liberties nightmares of the year”

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The main purpose of the acquisition appears to be for PayPerPost to get access to the 28,000 Performancing users

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To our surprise my Wife noticed the new Shuffle from Google has a misprint in it’s intended Holiday ‘thank you’ message. Looks like the word “Google” is mispelled in the actual iPod engraving, it reads “ooGleg thanks you!” - how strange.

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The communications director for Montana’s lone congressman solicited the services of two men he falsely believed to be criminally minded hackers-for-hire — with the expressed goal of jacking up his college GPA — during an exchange that spanned 22 e-mails over two weeks this past summer.
According to The Great Falls Tribune:

U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg’s communications director, Todd Shriber, was fired Thursday after verifying the accuracy of online reports that he tried to hire hackers to change his grade point average in the records of his alma mater, Texas Christian University, according to Rehberg chief of staff Erik Iverson.

What a moron!

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I walked into my office this morning, and was delighted to see a Xmas gift from Google all wrapped up. Once I opened the package, to my suprise there was a neatly wrapped iPod Shuffle and a Xmas card
…honestly this is the best Gift any vendor has ever given us. Check out the branded Google “ribbon” on the iPod case, we love those little details…

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In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down.

20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get it’s hands on into fat. (There’s plenty of that at this particular moment)

It just gets better from there. Basically, drinking Coke to give yourself energy is like filling your car with some sort of acidic jet fuel. You might get an initial speed boost, but in the end your engine isn’t gonna last too long. I’ll stick to whisky while I’m blogging, thank you very much.

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“If you build it, they will come.” That might have worked for Kevin Costner in the Field of Dreams, but if you’ve built a good site and are expecting people to just show up, you’ll be waiting a very long time. Web 2.0 branding is flipping the traditional model on its head. The old rules, don’t apply - so check it out, and don’t be left behind!

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Google Adwords added ‘tree’ and ‘candle’ borders to their sponsored listings that appeared for the three top Holiday search terms: Christmas = Trees, Hanukkah = One type of candle, Kwanzaa = Colored alternating candles. How cute and festive - we just wonder if it improved CTR? That was the goal right?

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With Google breaking away from the pack does Microsoft have any chance to compete? Well if Microsoft acquires Yahoo they do. Here are ten reasons why they will acquire Yahoo in 2007.

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