Another reason why people despise journalists

Let me get this straight: The newspaper didn't publish the names of these evil cretins, even though everyone involved already knows those names. But they published the exact height and weight of the dead girl so we can all calculate her BMI and judge her accordingly. Excellent. I need to go barf now. -- "3CARDKITTY" commenting at jezebel.com

Well, dead people can't sue you, right?

Later: The fact that local and federal "authorities" can't seem to find anything to charge the perpetrators with^[1] (especially when compared to the creativity of similar "authorities" when their target is someone they want to "get") just adds to the distastefulness of the whole situation.

From: Romenesko

Elsewhere:

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New political position: Prince of Darkness

Tom Friedman proposes an Obama-Cheney ticket:

When it comes to how best to deal with Iran, each has half a policy — but if you actually put them together, they’d add up to an ideal U.S. strategy for Iran. Dare I say, they complete each other.
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When negotiating with murderous regimes like Iran’s or Syria’s, you want Tony Soprano by your side, not Big Bird.

Wow.  That prospect ought to make some people's heads explode.

Friedman via Instapundit.
Letter from Here pointed out by Bill Quick.

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Entries for your HOSTS file

...and (yet another) reason to uninstall Flash.

The sites (also see UPDATE below):

Wired story: Hackers Use Banner Ads on Major Sites to Hijack Your PC

The malware looks like a ordinary Flash file, with its redirect function encrypted, so that when publishers upload it, the malware is not detectable. Once deployed on a site, the Flash file launches the malicious redirects, which appear to be triggered at preset times or at selected Web domains.

Ban list via: Steven Den Beste

UPDATE 071119 16:08: Large list of sites hosting this malware (prepared by Doubleclick?), from a Slashdot comment.

More:

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Christian Schneider's weblog got a lot of links...

So what's wrong with that?

Oh:

With a couple of big work projects coming up, I decided to pass posting duties off to a couple friends who I knew had some good ideas. Naturally, the first post^[1] by Dr. Emil Shuffhausen immediately hit the national blogs, courtesy of Tom McMahon. As of Friday afternoon, the post had been featured on The Conservative Grapevine and The Corner at National Review.

So, in about 3 hours, Dr. Shuffhausen got about the same number of readers that I get in three months. The total is at 6,000 hits and counting. Therefore, I now officially hate him and and I hate his ass face.

(And before the dust had settled, the post was also linked by Little Green Footballs.)

Hey, take it any way you can get it, I say...

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When is a blog NOT a blog?

When the Washington Post hosts it?

Michael Silence says he isn't edited. And I wonder how much editing Lileks has to put up with.

Via Insty

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Just 'kitten' around

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First-class bleatage today

Lileks is on fire! (in a good way...) Whaddaya call a Sour Baby Boomer? (No, I won't leak the answer, go read it.)

And if you're still here (why?), he's also taking on Garrison Keillor:

(GK:)  Back then, when newspapers were printed on paper, or what we now call "treeware," they were full of heinous stuff, a cold-blooded killer and his girlfriend Carol cruised through Nebraska murdering innocent people and you just knew he'd fry for it and he did, but long afterward you saw him lurking in the shadows behind the gas station, smoking a Lucky.

(JL:)  Back then, newspapers were not only printed on paper, they had editors who would say, “You need a period after ‘stuff.’”

All this plus a candidate for the clipfile. Just go read it, already.

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Mostly about Fail

Gizmodo pans NBC Direct.
C.G. Hill revisits Amazon Unbox.

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Excuses, excuses...

Am away from home (and regular computer) for a few days.  Posting will probably be sporadic because Laptop Keyboards Suck.

Meanwhile, good Veterans Day links courtesy of DrewM at Ace.

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After you, John

Mark Steyn:

"Humanity is the greatest challenge," says Colorado environmental activist John Feeney... It's not enough to reduce emissions, we have to reduce the folks doing the emitting. "We must end world population growth, then reduce population size."
...
Mr Feeney's views are the logical reductio, which means in another six months or so European cabinet ministers and UN officials are bound to start taking them up.

Was going to append the old Peanuts quote ("I love mankind, it's people I can't stand."), except Feeney and his ilk don't love mankind either.
Meanwhile, I eagerly await Mr. Feeney's volunteering to set an example by being the first affected by his population reduction program.


Via: Instapundit

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