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Jennifer Walcott, the girlfriend of Chicago Bear’s white defender Adam Archuleta, has had a MySpace stalker quite some time (I know, I know, MySpace, stalking, who would’ve thunk?). But yeah, here are some of the messages that he sent to her via MySpace:

“WHEN I FIND OUT WHERE YOU LIVE IM GONNA GET YOU, THIS IS BARELY THE BEGINNING, THIS ISN’T OVER,” he wrote in one note, prosecutors said.



In another, Diaz allegedly tells Walcott she better learn how to protect herself.



“TIME FOR YOU TO SUFFER, LEARN HOW TO FIGHT WHITE GIRL BECAUSE WHEN WE FIND OUT WHERE YOU LIVE WERE GONNA GET YOU AND THE REST OF YOU PIGS” he wrote, according to prosecutors.

Psyyyyychoooooo.

Effin’ A though, props to Archuleta. Being a white football player rocks!

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I think after this story, I am going to officially close down TechF*cked.com, because nothing will ever get funnier than this. Apparently, on one of the various fake celebrity blogs, a fake Al Sharpton made a post in response to the Michael Vick commotion. MSNBC found the blurb and quoted it as being from Al Sharpton’s very own mouth. Here is the fake Al Sharpton’s quote:

Consider this: If the police caught Brett Favre running a dolphin-fighting ring out of his pool, where dolphins with spears attached to their foreheads fought each other to the death, would they bust him? Of course not. They would get his autograph, commend him on his tightly-spiraled forward passes, then bet on one of his dolphins.

Here is the correction on MSNBC’s website:

An earlier version of this article quoted from a blog entry purportedly by the Rev. Al Sharpton. MSNBC.com has determined that the blog is a hoax. In July, Sharpton signed a letter with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals condemning dogfighting, saying: “Dogfighting is unacceptable. Hurting animals for human pleasure or gain is despicable. Cruelty is just plain wrong.”

Brett Favre… dolphin fighting ring… no red flags went up? Ha!

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…and is a moron. Perhaps I’m taking this statement out of context, but I can’t imagine what context this could be placed in for it to make sense. Not everyone can create such enthralling (yawn) websites as Broadcast.com, but what does Cuban expect?

The past two years have seen the biggest growth (economically and creatively) in Internet history. With web 2.0 social networking of the past and current times, and on the verge of web 3.0 (whatever that may be), one cannot logically believe that the Internet truly is boring.

I used to respect Mark Cuban, but he’s turned into an idiot (not to mention how old his whining to the media regarding the Dallas Mavericks). Just go away.

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The mayor of Atlanta, in an attempt to rid the city of child predators, has asked Craigslist to remove sex ads from the website. I’m not sure if there is a correlation between men attempting to have legit sexual relations with an adult woman (albeit… a hooker) and child predators. But that’s how it goes…

Last month, MySpace removed some tens of thousands of sex predator profiles from its site, and now with this news circulating around Craigslist, I wonder ‘What’s a child predator to do!?’

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I’m starting to think I’m blind. Literally, 33% of digg postings I do, I have to retype the CAPTCHA.

Maybe I’m not human.

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Future webmasters, I urge you, please think logically before jumping into a web venture based on what’s popular for any business.

I understand, all the rage is social networking, and the current times and future have much room for more niche networks… but a place for panty lovers? Granted, it may get some traffic (depending on how provocative its pictures are), but what are they thinking?

Maybe I’m wrong and they are right, but this is just laughable. And creepy. Very, very, very creepy.

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Facebook has announced that it will be using personal data from individual’s profile pages for better targeted ads. Wow, brilliant idea. Now advertisers can pay a much higher eCPM and still have a zero click-through rate. Sign me up!

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I’m always skeptical of statistics involving the loss of productivity and how much money businesses lose as a result of events, like every March when you hear that businesses lose $999 trillion billion zillion dollars during the first two days of the NCAA basketball tournament. But this one is interesting (although full of holes).

The study estimates that Australian employees spend 1 hour of time per day online. It guessed that at least one employee from the 800,000 Aussie business was an avid Facebook user, spending about 1 hour per day on the site. However, the study failed to realize the basics; that there are only about 240,000 Facebook members residing in Australia. I guess we can thus deduce that somewhere around $1.4 billion is lost per year. (Based on their formula).

Who knows.

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This is a story I had heard about two years ago from a Harvard grad I am friends with (who also mentioned Mark Zuckerberg was one of the biggest pricks on campus (WAS one, not HAS one).

Apparently, Zuckerberg was hired to develop some coding for the similar college start up, ConnectU.com. Shortly after his term of employment with ConnectU, Zuckerberg had thousands of fellow Harvard students signed up for his very own website, TheFaceBook.com. The choppy story I heard two years ago was that two brothers were the main investors/creators of ConnectU, both of whom are heirs to quite a large family fortune, so basically they were dragging the lawsuit out as long as possible, in hopes that Facebook would gain national notoriety. Well, it has, and now Zuckerberg is going to have to pay.

I would think there would be some type of settlement in the near future, but if anyone were to refute such an attempt, it would Zuckerberg. The timing of everything is too sketchy for this not to work in the favor of ConnectU. However, I can’t help but call ConnectU out as a bunch of morons for not taking advantage of the publicity they are getting. Their Alexa ranking has jumped this week since the news of the settlement, yet when I go to the University of Miami’s page on the website (where I happen to be studying Law), it brings up a database error. Talk about a wasted opportunity!

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