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    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 »
    Steverino Begins: 2day the world lost a little piece of sunshine. My deepest condolences go out 2 Brittany's family, her husband, & her amazing mother Sharon. A eulog... more »
    Shadowlayer: 500M for a "company" nobody outside SF uses or even knows about... Thats it, google just went fucking retarded. more »
    sparklyharempants: Here's your wakeup call, LiLo. more »
    Mymoustache: My initital reaction was twofold: First, shock. I thought lindsay lohan or rebecca gayheart was the next to go. Second, is harvey levin this genera... more »
    badasscat: But Murphy's history, both of recent and long before this, will at some point be taken into account. No, what will be taken into account are the medi... more »
    SJSarcevich004: No snark here, either. I am in tears. more »
    raincoaster: I don't think you can claim she "struggled" with drugs. Usually that word is reserved for something you fight against. more »
    WalterPater: I'm heartbroken. No snark whatsoever. Truly awful news. more »
    Feh Am Legend: I can't say I'm surprised, but it is too bad. For me she was a talented actor who sadly bought the Next Big Thing bullshit floated her way after she n... more »
    J France: If it wasn't sad enough that her family will be without their daughter, sister, wife - they'll now have to endure mistreatment by rabid morons trying ... more »
    semiserious: In film school I always imagined I'd base a film on my mother one day and cast Murphy in the main role. There was a strong resemblance and her best ro... more »
    heywhat: I hate to hear about people losing loved ones at such a young age and this happening during the holidays makes it even worse. Her poor mother. It is b... more »
    Al Swearengen: Um, what does it matter that TMZ got the news out first? What does it matter that any news agency gets the news out first, unless it is news that woul... more »
    RandomLunatic: No matter what happened here, expect the gossip industry to turn its focus onto her husband, Simon Monjack, but fast. Been reading old newspaper artic... more »
  • #journalismism

    TV Networks Prepping Steve Jobs's Obituary

    Steve Jobs, currently on medical leave as Apple CEO, is not dead, but the major networks are acting as if he were. Producers from CBS and NBC are scheduling interviews for their Jobs obituaries. More »
  • #obits

    Here I sit, the La-Z-Boy: Aeron chair inventor dies

  • #bloggers

    Say hi to VentureBeat! Wait for it...wait for it...

  • #wiredmagazine

    "Hidden voice of Wired" passes away