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    NotReadyForPrimeTime: I do wish Oprah would STFU about New Age quackery. It was her promotion of "The Secret" that helped this creep James Ray become so successful. Hopef... more »
    Shadowlayer: Seems pincus here has sent a whole bunch of "friends" to spam the place... more »
    Mike Jahn: Oh. It's the beta version of Grand Theft Baboon. more »
    Spirit Fingers: Oh, I could tell you guys a story about a ride through Great Adventure's Safari attraction in my father's brand new Volvo in 1980, and the moral that ... more »
    DennyCrane: Clearly Gorilla Grodd is on the warpath again. more »
    AndPreciousLittleofThat: This sounds like a job for Encyclopedia Brown! more »
    Alaska Miller: It's like telling a city bus to stop only at Burger King instead of McDonald's and expecting everyone to pay extra for free ice cream. more »
    CumaeanSibyl: All suspects are guilty. Period. Otherwise, they wouldn't be suspect, would they? more »
    Monty: What is more interesting than search engines paying for content is that this could ultimately save the news media business. Ignoring the concern to J... more »
    Magister: What happens when you look for a foreign or local story? I assume the Fox O&Os will be part of the equation, as will their Australian and UK paper... more »
    sweetpickles: Yes. You'll find the same news at other sites by searching through Google. This isn't only about Murdoch walling off his sites, though. This is about ... more »
    Hello Mister Walrus: I think this is really audience-specific. I work for a bank, so if I had to choose between Google + no WSJ and some other search engine that is 97% as... more »
    Gabriel Snyder: And notice in that first search that while News Corp. is saying it can live without Google, it's also buying up ad keywords like "lieberman public opt... more »
    manchops: but have you tried googling: "Andrea Peyser + sex goddess?" I mean, hello? more »
    If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Perfect. And if they take even one step in the direction of "You can't quote our stories" they will drive themselves so far into irrelevancy ... more »
  • #lawsuits

    Facebook Named in Federal Class-Action Suit over Scammy Zynga Ads

    Facebook and Zynga are the defendants in a federal class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday, which seeks upwards of $5 million for social network users scammed in online game ads. Neither company's top-drawer investors can be happy. More »
  • #howthingswork

    Investors Punish Online Scam Trafficker with $15 Million

    Just as the public was learning that a huge chunk of Zynga's social gaming revenue came from scammy "quizzes" and "special offers," Silicon Valley's most prestigious venture capitalists rewarded the company with $15 million. Hey, that's just how VC's roll. More »
  • #facebook

    Class Action Suit in the Works for Victims of Social Gaming Scams

    Facebook and MySpace might finally pay the price for the big social gaming scandal: At least one law firm is investigating whether to launch a class action suit on behalf of duped users. More »
  • #passiveaggressive

    Yelp's Lost Chance to Prevent a Brawl

    Yelp couldn't have guessed one of its reviewers might end up in a vicious wrestling match with a store owner, right? Wrong: the owner had visited Yelp HQ the day before the fight, been ignored, then turned away. More »
  • #yelprage

    Yelp-Fight Participant: I Was Trying To Apologize

    The Yelp reviewer supposedly attacked by a store owner just got a zero-star rating for honesty. The store owner says it was the reviewer who attacked, even though the owner came in peace to apologize. More »
  • #crime

    Yelp Fights Make Leap To Real-World Violence, Says Reviewer

    To hear Yelp reviewer "Sean C." tell it, San Francisco's Ocean Avenue Books really didn't appreciate his pan of the "TOTAL MESS" of a store: The owner somehow found his home, he said, and tried to force her way in. More »
  • #crime

    Arrest Over Facebook 'Poke' Makes Meaningless Gesture Risque

    When the internet was young and innocent, it was acceptable to "finger" college classmates. These days, a simple Facebook "poke" can land you in jail, in Tennessee, and CNN has say "alleged" poking, because, hey, libel. More »
  • #ubrananthropology

    Bus Seat Fistfight: More Transit Mayhem Policed By YouTube

    One of the amazing things about this screaming fight on a San Francisco Muni bus is the way the citizen cameraman deftly captures every moment. At one point he's even shooting over his shoulder. Cell phone cameras never sleep, straphangers. More »
  • #crime

    Legendary Valley Escort Ordered To Lay Around House

    Cristina Warthen, who worked her way through Stanford Law as an escort and later pled guilty to tax evasion, has been sentenced to one year home detention and ordered to pay $243,000 in back taxes and fines. More »
  • #crime

    Meet the Postal Worker Who Stole Your Netflix DVDs

    Wondering why that one Lost DVD never arrived? If you live in New England, blame the Netflix Nabber. Myles Weathers pinched more than 3,000 DVDs from the mail distribution center where he worked. He faces five years in prison. More »
  • #crime

    Druggy Suicide Presumed for Accused California Swindler

    Danny Pang, California's answer to Bernie Madoff, most likely died last weekend at his own hand, sources close to the police told the Wall Street Journal. The idea of life as a pariah, per Madoff, was apparently too much. More »
  • #facebook

    Respect Facebook's Crime Fighting Abilities, Or Pay the Price

    Some people claim that Facebook makes you easy prey for criminals, good-for-nothings and other unseemly characters. But that's not always true. Sometimes the site helps put people behind bars, as it did this week. More »
  • #andnowhesdead

    A Mysterious Death for California's Purported Ponzi Schemer

    Danny Pang, the California financier being sued by the SEC for international securities fraud, died at home in Orange County of unknown causes. He was 42. More »
  • #crime

    Five Ways YouTube Could Land You in Jail

    Cyrus Yazdani, the Los Angeles tagger made famous through a YouTube video, has cashed in his viral stardom — for a four-year prison sentence. He's hardly the first delinquent done in by a Web video. More »
  • #crime

    Andrew Sullivan's Federal Pot Favors

    That frenetic political blogger Andrew Sullivan emerged as a loud proponent of marijuana legalization is no surprise; the Catholic gay British conservative is nothing if not idiosyncratic. What is odd is that federal prosecutors want to legalize Sullivan's pot bust. More »
  • #crime

    Did Sicko Phillip Garrido Follow a Google Vehicle?

    Attached are pictures of a van that tailed a vehicle shooting pictures for Google Street View. Looks like a stereotypical child rapist van, right? That's the thing: It apparently pulled out from beside the home of rapist-kidnapper Phillip Garrido. More »
  • #crime

    Airplane Perv Punches People, Strips Naked

    New York has its subway flashers; in Oakland, the pervs are airborne. Witness the large fellow just arrested for exposing himself and rampaging through the cabin of a flight bound for Las Vegas. More »
  • #crime

    Danny Pang's Convenient Lady Friend

    If Danny Pang is California's Bernie Madoff, it's no wonder he tried to innovate on the romantic side of his scheme: Pang's apparent partner is safely abroad, with his assets, rather than despised and poor at home, like Ruth Madoff. More »
  • #nerdfight

    Chess Wizards in Huge Online Sorcery Feud

    They say bickering intensifies as stakes diminish; this helps explain the enmity engulfing the U.S. Chess Federation. A struggle over board seats turned into a flurry of lawsuits, all rooted in the following obscene and allegedly faked internet postings. More »
  • #adultservices

    New Craigslist Hookers, Same as the Old Craigslist Hookers

    Craigslist replaced its much-maligned "erotic services" section with a more responsible "adult" section. So were prostitutes driven away by mandatory credit card payments and staff review of their ads? No, they just got more subtle. Hooker subtle! More »
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