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A week in which we didn't buy any iPhones

By Jackson West, 9:00 PM on Fri Jul 11 2008, 972 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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The Sun Valley summit gave the ultrarich the only reason they'll ever have to go to Idaho. Digg CEO Jay Adelson and Google cofounder Larry Page looked like they were having fun. Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang called Kara Swisher but he looks like he should have called his therapist after Rupert Murdoch says that he's not buying and neither is Microsoft. Meanwhile, YouTube hand-bans anyone who wants to go topless on the site, while Playboy plays up a bunch of bloggers who couldn't care less — why can't you all stop ruining the Internet! (Photo by Liam K)

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