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All My Children And One Life To Live Get Second Lives On Hulu And iTunes

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Bastard children. Weddings. Slaps. Illicit affairs. Gun shots. Weddings. Sexy senior citizens. Pregnant teenagers. Murder. Conspiracies. Weddings. Alien abductions. Meeting God. These are all most likely words that took up space on whiteboards brainstorming sessions in the writers’ rooms of All My Children and One Life to Live. Well, it looks like the shows themselves […]

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Google, You’re Not (Alone) In Kansas Anymore

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With all the hype circulating over Google’s gigabit fiber rollout, it’s easy to forget that availability remains somewhat limited in the cities scheduled for the service. Despite Olathe, Westwood, Westwood Hills and Mission Hills, Kansas on the short list for Google Fiber, nearby Lawrence (about 29 miles from Olathe) isn’t scheduled for coverage. In what […]

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When Crowdsourcing Goes Wrong

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The body of Brown University student Sunil Tripathi has been confirmed found in the water near Indian Point Park in Providence, Rhode Island. While this might provide closure for Tripathi’s family, who have searched for him since mid-March, it’s also a potent reminder of how wrong Reddit users were when they falsely accused him of being […]

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AP Twitter Hacked, Posts Fake Tweets About White House Bombing

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Earlier today, unspecified hackers took over the AP Twitter feed and sent out fake tweets claiming that two explosions had rocked the White House and President Obama had been injured. White House spokesman Jay Carney immediately told reporters that Obama was indeed fine and no such bombings had taken place. The AP Twitter account was […]

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Facebook, Reddit, And A Midnight Firefight: What The Internet Got Wrong About Watertown

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  Like many people who live in a time zone an hour or so behind the East Coast, I found myself awake late Thursday night, following the terrifying events that unfolded in Boston. I  watched and listened as the seemingly isolated, if tragic, shooting of an MIT police officer quickly became linked to a car […]

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CISPA Passed This Week Against Objections, Pleas, And Rationality

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I guess after being paid craploads of taxpayer money ($174,000 annually), Senators need to show something for it, given they have one of the laxest schedules imaginable. Some of the bills that have gone through the house in the last week or two have included rolling back insider trading rules, making Congress immune to prosecution, […]

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When Bad Things Happen To Awful People: Anonymous Takes On Westboro Baptist Church

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In the immediate wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, it didn’t take long for the vermin to come crawling out of the woodwork, to point fingers at invisible enemies. The New York Post and Fox News were immediately inflating body counts, their reporters blaming and harassing Saudi students and their friends. Pundits elsewhere were blaming […]

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