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It seemed right to start with greater depth than a paragraph with incorrect data from the &#8217;80s.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wnd.com\/news\/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48585\" target=\"_blank\">AOL Acting Like God?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><em>America Online is now acting like God &#8211; using what some consider to be His very name in a marketing pitch for e-mail, voice chat, video chat, instant messaging, text messaging and other forms of communication.  AIM&#8217;s new slogan is &#8220;I AM.&#8221; <\/em> <small>(via<a href=\"http:\/\/j-walkblog.com\/index.php?\/weblog\/posts\/is_it_time_to_smite_aol\/\" target=\"_blank\"> J-Walk<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poststar.com\/story.asp?storyid=208745\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Cool&#8221; remains cool<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;It just keeps swaggering along,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I think this has gone beyond slang and into a word that is so useful and versatile that it is just one of the words we use. There are no other words in the vocabulary that quite do the job.  Cool is already firmly ensconced in several generations. It&#8217;s got street cred. And it had street cred before we even used the phrase street cred.&#8221;<\/em>  <small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/j-walkblog.com\/index.php?\/weblog\/posts\/cool_not_rad\/\" target=\"_blank\">J-Walk<\/a>)<\/small><\/ul><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This and that &#8230; Congresscritters vs. Wikipedia. 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