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Don’t Buy: Celebrity Death Rumors

As well all know Michael Jackson died last week, along with Farrah Fawcett and Ed McMahon. But that does not mean that every celebrity died regardless of how much as the Internet wants us to believe.
Rumor had it that Jeff Goldblum died. And Britney Spears. And Harrison Ford. And Ellen DeGeneres. The rumor mill has [...]

Don’t Buy: “Retiring” Iranian Soccer Players

This is the Iranian Men’s Nation Soccer team. Four of these players wore green wrist bands in support of Mir Hossein Mousavi at their last match. They have recieved life-time bans retired from the team.
How about some post-game analysis?
Iran’s government is completely exposed, it seems like most people agree with the protesters, insane amounts of [...]

Don’t Buy: Tweet-speak

Chuck Grassley is a United States Senator from Iowa. He has been in politics since 1959. He is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Senate Committee on Agriculture and the Senate Finance Committee, of which he has twice been the Chair. He is also a grown man capable of expressing himself like an [...]

Don’t Buy: Twitter’s Tween Meltdown

So I’m a fan of Twitter. I’ve been on it for almost 2 years and it has been treating me pretty nicely until late. Lately, the site was “found out” by the media, filled with spammers and I got the glimpses into people and lives I never wanted.
Remember the month (I think it was March) [...]

Buy: AplusK = Twitter caché

Apparently Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk) has been doing the Twitter thing for a while now.  I must admit, I was previously influenced by my interpretation of his personal brand as America’s Zany Prankster Bro, but I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the topics he Tweets about! He’s a big proponent of Social Media, and has actually been doing some fun [...]

BODB: David Lynch TV

First: By “David Lynch TV,” I don’t mean Twin Peaks. That would be a definite Buy.
What I do mean is his newly launched website, David Lynch Foundation Television. The David Lynch Foundation was created to promote Transcendental Meditation, which Lynch has been practicing for 35 years, and to provide funding for students to [...]

Buy: American Idol is Canceled

As you know, I watch garbage on TV. Utter garbage. Rock of Love, Gossip Girl, PBS… you get the idea. But one piece of garbage I never got behind was American Idol.
It was cool that they use texting to involve the whole country, sure, that was new and cool. But now it’s old and [...]

Buy: Phishing in Twitter

Now, this is one of those things that it’s the worst when it happens to you, but when it happens to other people, especially famous people, it’s kinda funny.
So this showed up Fox News’ Twitter.

And then this on Britney’s Twitter:

And finally Rick Sanchez’s, a reporter for CNN, twitter:

So first, calling homophob Bill O’Reily on extremely [...]