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Big whoop
October 04, 2005
I'm at this very moment looking at two headlines in an AP news feed and trying to figure out which one is more banal:
Sun, Google in Software Distribution Pact
or
Pamela Anderson Gets Restraining Order
Dana Gardner has the best take on the Great Anticlimax.
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