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The Industry Standard, CA -21 minutes ago
Use a closed proxy and run a real sock. This requires a good deal of discipline. Generally, for n=2 socks, editing one with IE and the other with Firefox is ...

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http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/07/28...ctics-wikipedia

The whole article is basically a link back here and quoting gomi. Odd.

Hmmm, on the front page at the moment, I'll move this to the News Worth Discussing forum.

And another one:

http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/07/28...-quit-wikipedia

...This time quoting User:Yahel_Guhan's farewell post (originally on WP and later posted here in case that got deleted).

Apparently the poster/author, a Mr. Jordan Golson, used to be on Valleywag - but no longer...? We should offer him a job, but I suspect the pay here would be even worse!