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[updated 4.24.8]
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Zuckerberg did NOT quit Google+ over privacy concerns.
This is almost the most misleading article title I've ever seen:
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/13/1317252/Zuckerberg-Quits-Google-Over-Privacy-Concerns
Slashdot has this "story" up with the title, "Zuckerberg Quits Google+ Over Privacy Concerns." It then links to an article that basically doesn't even remotely say that:
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2093546/zuckerberg-closes-google-account-tracked
The article linked says that Mark Zuckerberg was one of the people with the most followers on Google+. It then goes on to explain that he's since dropped off of that list because he -- in addition to a bunch of Google management folks, mind you -- has closed off his Google+ account using the privacy settings. Then some unrelated statistics compiler -- whatever the fuck that means -- posited that Zuckerberg did it so he "could no longer be tracked"
There's no story here. There's no irony. Basically, Zuckerberg changed some settings in Google+ and some douche named "CmdrTaco" picked a few words from the entire article and strung them together to make a lie.
That's it.
I understand that it's cool to hate Facebook these days, but when people start running around quoting a horrendously misleading article title -- if you can even call a paragraph that links to another article, an article -- it only makes the hate look petty and unfounded.
[updated 7.13.8]
Azithromycin
4.15.11
I haven't been this sick in awhile.
Well, let me rephrase that. It's been awhile since I was this sick, for this long. I've certainly had my share of extended illnesses in the last year, but most weren't a very big deal. I've also been hospitalized with my yearly massive case of gastroenteritis. That crap is the worst, but at least it's over as soon as I get a few bags of fluid and some anti-nausea meds.
This fucking cold, though, has stuck with me since last Wednesday night -- almost 9 days now -- and it's been damn near unbearable. I've been coughing up a storm, day and night. Dry, unproductive coughs that have come out so forcefully that my neck muscles are actually sore. Coughs so loud that I've had to sleep on the couch to avoid waking up the baby at night. I was sent home from work on Wednesday, and I'm pretty sure a large contributing factor was the fact that nobody wanted to listen to me hack up a lung for a third day in a row.
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