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In the sometimes slippery world of the Web, it can pay to cross your "t"s and dot your "i"s.

Case in point:

A colleague sent me a link to a tweet that at first seemed to show that Applebee's Twitter account had been hacked. The account had tweeted: "Poop is food."

As catchy as that tagline might be, it seems a little weird coming from a major restaurant chain. And on closer inspection I thought the page looked a bit suspicious. Only nine tweets had gone out from the account, and … Read more

I was slapped awake this morning by Don Reisinger's touching excoriation of Blockbuster.

"Blockbuster's ineptitude over the past few years is simply unrivaled," he reasoned.

For all I know, he is right. I mean, doesn't the man who founded Blockbuster still own the Miami Dolphins?

However, sometimes real life behavior can give you that peculiar frisson that only a back-waxing has previously achieved.

Last night, I was driving to a concert and was becoming more than usually frustrated at the lines of turgid traffic ahead of me.

I thought they must all be going to … Read more