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Thanks to Rich Lieberman who blogs about media in the area, more information is coming out about how exactly those fake Asian pilot names wound up making it to air on the KTVU news. It turns out that the names were read out loud after all and even flagged as suspect by at least one …
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Since I’m about to go get lunch and I’m sure many of you are too, I figured why not send us all on our way with this. 10 Foods that Thankfully Flopped There are some real winners in here including Cereal Mates, which I don’t remember but which sounds completely wrong and horrifying. Number 2, …
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You know, I kind of want to feel sorry for Sunith Baheerathan. I mean lots of us get the occasional weed craving, nothing wrong with that. And hey, people post things they ought not on the internet all the time, even ones we know personally. Everybody makes mistakes, right? But tweeting that you’d really like …
Ug! People in 2013 are just the worst! Seriously, the worst! I know this sort of thing goes back far beyond 2013, but the web and it’s various social media have given every uptight idiot’s complaint more of a voice than it ever should be allowed to have and they’re taking full advantage of it. …
You’ve seen the wooden iPad and the potato iPad. Now, meet the apple iPhone. Police from the Upper Mt Gravatt Crime Prevention Unit say the 21-year-old woman placed an advertisement on the site saying she was interested in buying a few iPhones. Not long after she put the word out, a woman called and said …
Since this is a story about kids and their daycare, let’s play a game. I’m going to tell you a tale and you’re going to guess what happened to this teacher. Michelle Hammack was inside her classroom at the Little Temples Childcare in Jacksonville, when she suddenly smelled smoke. “I just leaned over and peeked …
Well done, Conservative Party research office, well done. Conservative disability mailout uses braille that’s unreadable The so-called “householder” pamphlets, prepared by the party’s research office and sent out by MPs using their parliamentary mailing privileges, were intended to flag the government’s efforts to help people with disabilities enter the workforce. The headline on the document, …
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I don’t know what the names of the crew aboard Asiana flight 214 are, but I’m pretty sure I know what they aren’t. Really, we’re not racist. Some of our best friends are Asian pilots. Indeed, to the surprise of no one other than the KTVU news team who apparently don’t bother reading anything aloud …
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We’ve seen stories of burglars falling asleep on the job before, but this is a little bit different. Domonique Pinkard and Julian Evangelist broke into a house intending to take things. While Evangelist ran off with a TV, some clothes and various other items, Pinkard managed only to pocket a few hundred dollars worth of …
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Terminally cheap? Terminally foolish? Terminally trapped in a life of crime? I’m not sure, but when you’re resorting to using a stolen credit card to pay the $1 of the $16 fingerprinting fee you don’t happen to have on you to the Sheriff’s records department, you’ve got to be at least one, if not all …
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