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Xeni Jardin, Kevin Rose, and friends get in bed with Virgin

By Nick Douglas, 8:10 PM on Mon Oct 8 2007, 1,833 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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After wooing San Francisco at its hub airport, Virgin America has enlisted seven Internet heroes to pitch the new airline. Seen here are Xeni Jardin, Cory Doctorow, David Pescovitz, and Mark Frauenfelder of Boing Boing; Peter Rojas of Engadget; and Alex Albrecht and Kevin Rose of Diggnation. You can see them in these Virgin cartoon spots, which are like C-minus episodes of Sealab 2021.

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