6 posts and columns on dead

White MacBook, It Was Good Living With You

in News on February 10 at 10:16 am PT

The white MacBook is (now really, truly) dead.
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Meet Billy, the Bison Mark Zuckerberg Shot and Hung On Sheryl Sandberg’s Wall

in Social on December 16, 2011 at 12:00 pm PT

What’s worse than getting an unsolicited a poke on Facebook? Getting shot, killed, eaten and having your head mounted on a wall by its famous founder, that’s what!
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Viral Video: "Wrecked"

in News on October 22, 2010 at 1:21 am PT

Okay, this is a freaky Friday video–a trailer for the upcoming movie “Wrecked,” starring Adrien Brody. He wakes up after a car accident at the bottom of a ravine in the deep forest and has no idea how he got there. Also, there are lots of dead people with him. Really freaky.

Twitter Didn’t Kill Gordon Lightfoot. Big Media Did.

in Media on February 19, 2010 at 3:00 am PT

It’s easy to blame Twitter for falsely reporting that the guy who sings “Sundown” is dead. But you can’t pin this one on the messaging service or its users, who were merely repeating what a big Canadian news service had told them.

Jeff Goldblum Defies the Web, Denies His Death on “Colbert Report”

in Media on June 30, 2009 at 4:33 am PT

Jeff Goldblum has been making a string of appearances on “The Colbert Report” over the past few weeks, but last night was by far his best work. For starters, the Internet and Twitter declared him dead last Thursday.
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For Getting the Skinny on Apple Stock Hijinks Alone, BoomTown Hearts Jon Stewart

in News on March 13, 2009 at 7:05 pm PT

While the fireworks were great, the most important thing that “The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart elicited out of CNBC’s most famous stock jester, Jim Cramer, was the admission of using the malleable press to float fictional rumors about companies in order to make money on the negative news. While Cramer at first tried to deny he did it, Stewart had the videotape of the “Mad Money” host talking about the practice, specifically in regards to Apple. Kind of puts all those Steve-Jobs-Is-Dead-Right-Now rumors from a few months ago into a new light? While we all know Jobs has been quite ill, grave-dancing rumors written without any serious reporting have also been a troublesome issue, because it was clear greedy short-sellers played a large part in stoking the fear about his immediate demise back then.
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