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    Shadowlayer: I dont see why google has to buy this half-assed company thats only relevant to a few parts of the US and not that popular at all. A google version, ... more »
    youngmarblegiant: I'm a Yelp elite, and let me tell you it is really all about the free booze at the parties. You review a certain number of establishments and you get... more »
    contradicto: What's with the tiny Business Insider link at the bottom of this post? more »
    sfBirdie: Yelp is useful, but you have to read reviews with an open mind - especially in the Bay Area. Many of the 'Yelp Elite' reviewers take the title way to... more »
    DennyCrane: Boutros, Boutros, golly! more »
    raincoaster: The older Yelp gets, the more closely it resembles a cheesy freebie newspaper, the kind with 50-year-old jokes to keep the ad columns apart. The longe... more »
    resipsaloquacious: Henry Blodget? Really? more »
    Shadowlayer: 500M for a "company" nobody outside SF uses or even knows about... Thats it, google just went fucking retarded. more »
    Perhaps Not: You can always find Salvation at a strip club - Tuesday nights from 10 to 1, if memory serves. more »
    braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.: Wait. So, Brittany Murphy's death "appears to be natural," but they've done neither a toxicology test nor an autopsy? Is this like the coroner sayin... more »
    DahlELama: I was very content at the rapid disappearance of Chris Brown, and then SYTYCD had to go ahead and use one of his songs. Now I know he's got something ... more »
    secretagentman: Frank Langella is gayer than I am. more »
    Pope John Peeps II: So britney murphy had untreated diabetes?! Her and her husband aren't by any chance, scientologists, are they? more »
    Pope John Peeps II: Tech people seem to believe that the entire digital world is a brand new realm, whose laws and fiats they can cavalierly disregard, or invent to their... more »
    BowlingForDollars: This may sound lame, but I have Creative Commons on all of my material on Facebook. If they make it available in search, isn't that exploiting my "wor... more »
    CumaeanSibyl: A lot of times, when something that awful happens, it doesn't sink in all at once. You're numb, and your first instinct is to keep doing the things yo... more »
    Magister: Re: Penelope Trunk I'm not even bothering to fake the lie - The computer I'll be buying this Christmas will be for me, so that the kids can have the ... more »
    GooberSaysHey: Kevin Smith is the ultimate (disgusting) oversharer. Ever seen that filmed speech he gave detailing the first time he nailed his wife? Ick. more »
    MyNameIsChris: Re: Avatar Is twittering reviews on films you didn't see the new blogging reviews about films you haven't seen? more »
    econdave: "Gilfriend"? She's a fish? more »
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