JetBlue Responds to Entire Internet With Single Blog Post

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Published Aug. 12, 2010 at 6:03 p.m.
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The Steven Slater saga continues to twist and deepen, with several outlets suggesting that the working-class-hero-has-an-understandable-meltdown story may have a few holes in it. Meanwhile, Slater's employer is in an increasingly tricky position. If one of their employees became a folk hero for quitting, then didn’t that make them something of, well, a folk villain? ... For the first 48 hours following Slater’s famous beer slide, JetBlue said nothing. Then, on Wednesday, JetBlue made the

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McStatins Happy Meal Would Prevent Heart, Big Mac Attacks: Frustrated Cardiologist

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Published Aug. 12, 2010 at 5:00 p.m.
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If, and exactly how, governments should regulate fast food joints has been a much-discussed topic of conversation for decades. And it's still a largely unresolved matter, which is why one U.K. cardiologist has come up with a "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em"-style solution: Fast food restaurants should give away free drugs to help combat heart disease. Meanwhile, as the science of fast, cheap DNA testing advances in leaps and bounds, the U.S. government is pondering a bizarre and icky

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Will a Spider Fly On the Great White Way?

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Published Aug. 12, 2010 at 9:46 a.m.
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Spider-Man will finally swing onto the Broadway stage thisholiday season in the much-anticipated (and much postponed) musical Spider-Man: TurnOff the Dark, with previews starting on November 14 at the Foxwoods Theater in New York ... After a series of delays, major stars dropping out to newproducers and cash flow problems, the show, which features ascore by U2 luminaries Bono and The Edge, begins presale tickets this weekend. The show wasoriginally scheduled to open in March of this year.

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iFive: Facebook vs Google, Saudis and RIM Agree, Spain Cold on EVs, Smartphone Security Highlighted, Oracle Boss on Hurd Affair

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Published Aug. 10, 2010 at 7:08 a.m.
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While you were sleeping (fitfully as the storm raged outside), innovation was wondering if the word "sky" within another word (example: Skype) was subject to copyright, and if so, would anyone called Skylar find that they were, as a human being, illegal? ... 1. This is it, chaps, this is war. Or something. Facebook founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, has stuck an illuminated sign with the word "Lockdown" outside his office. It means, according to Valleywag's Ryan Tate, that for the next 60 days,

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Google, Verizon Team Up to Support Net Neutrality, but With Wires (and Strings) Attached

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Published Aug. 9, 2010 at 4:59 p.m.
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In a press conference Monday, heads of Google and Verizon reaffirmed their commitment to "an open Internet," so-called net neutrality, a concept holds that Internet service providers (ISPs) ought to treatall online properties the same. In other words, users can accessFastcompany.com as quickly as the BBC, or Facebook as fast asTwitter--the sites receive no preferential treatment based on theirpopularity or content ... There were major caveats, though ... Google and Verizon released a seven-part

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Alex Bogusky Tells All: He Left the World's Hottest Agency to Find His Soul

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Published Aug. 9, 2010 at 7:31 a.m.
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Photograph by Mike Piscitelli ... Alex Bogusky, the Elvis of advertising, has left the business. Is this a New Age midlife crisis or his greatest rebranding campaign? ... "The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men -- the man he is and the man he wants to be." -- William Feather ... Alex Bogusky, advertising Dadaist, postmodern media manipulator, pop-culture Houdini, daddy of 21st-century advertising, and now a seeker of meaning on

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Timothy Olyphant in the upcoming Office season

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Published Aug. 3, 2010 at 8:44 a.m.

A story on the TV Guide site details some of the upcoming episodes for Steve Carell’s last season, which may be shaping up to be a good one. Justified’s Timothy Olyphant (and if you’ve never watched Justified, you should - he’s excellent in it) will be appearing in a couple of episodes as a [ ... ] ...

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Don't be fooled: The Tea Party is about authority, not liberty

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Published July 11, 2010 at 1:01 p.m.

They claim to be about "getting the government off of our backs." The problem here is that the Tea Party seems to be salivating at the opportunity to enact on the state level laws that prohibit equal rights for gays, women and even racial minorities. Listen past the opening salvos about big government and you realize that what the tea baggers really want is to replace federal government authority with state government authority. Their central assumption is that states have inherent rights but

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Summer Scrantonicity

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Published June 8, 2010 at 12:50 p.m.

This is actually old news, but what the heck, until The Office tosses the fans something, some kind of bone, over the summer break, it’ll have to do. Brian Baumgartner was in Scranton over the Memorial Day weekend. He was the guest of honor at a fundraiser for the Albright Memorial Library. You can [ ... ] ...

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Suddenly, Everyone's an Expert on Fixing Oil Spills

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Published June 3, 2010 at 5:05 p.m.
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When it comes to halting the gush of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, we've heard all sorts of ideas. Nothing seems too outrageous at this point. From Kevin Costner's oil separation technology he invested in after the Exxon Valdez spill, to the possibility of using James Cameron's underwater robots he developed while shooting Titanic. Even tossing a nuclear bomb down the pipeline doesn't seem too unrealistic when large groups of scientists begin to rally behind the cause. Ideas are great, but what

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