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It’s confirmed: RIP Brittany Murphy
NY Daily News
Brittany Murphy, actress. dead at 32 from full cardiac arrest. Was it drugs? Was it an eating disorder? No details yet. But TMZ confirmed it not too long ago — and the news is ALL OVER twitter (no surprise there).
I loved her in Sin City. And, not gonna lie, am a huge fan [...]
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RIP President Aquino
Former President Corazon Aquino, dead at 76
She was so young. And ever so inspiring.
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Hark! Tis talk like Shakespeare day!
Not till Thursday, technically. But this April 23, commonfolk (and even higher ranking ones) are encouraged to talk Shakespeare style. So, brusheth off your Romeo and Juliet, your Hamlet, or your Merchant of Venice if thou hasn’t read those in a while and start speaking like they did, back in those olden days.
If thou needst [...]
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What Google does NOT own
That’s the correct question here. Just heard via TechCrunch, that Google is in some stage of negotiation to acquire Twitter.
And this is right off the heels of Facebook FAILING to acquire Twitter for the cool amount of half a BILLION dollars. I can’t even count that high, much less imagine how much that really [...]
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31 days
And 31 posts. Not exactly a post a day every day for the entire month of March… There were definitely some days with multiple posts (like yesterday. **koffkoff**), but all in all, I think it’s been a pretty good effort for what I set out to do after passing the 9 year mark.
Go me! So [...]
Nature of the Beast
Natasha Richardson has passed. She was 45. I feel some guilt about posting it so soon after it happened. Literally, the AP reported it a few minutes before 8pm, I posted before 830.
It’s an unfortunate thing, an untimely and early death. From something so simple as skiing down a bunny hill. We forget how [...]
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AIG execs leave after receiving bonus
This whole thing just keeps getting shadier and shadier. First we hear that AIG gets our tax dollars and then transforms them into bonuses for their top executives (more than $170 billion from the US government bailout). Then we hear that AIG actually gave them the bonuses, despite being under intense scrutiny from everyone everywhere.
Now, [...]
Madoff pleads guilty to 11 charges
From CNNMoney.com:
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Bernard Madoff, who stole billions from investment clients, was ordered jailed Thursday after pleading guilty to all 11 criminal counts in one of Wall Street’s biggest swindles ever.
“I operated a Ponzi scheme,” said Madoff to the packed courtroom, after U.S. District Judge Denny Chin told him to explain his crimes.
“I [...]
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I did it. I got an iPad.