MSNBC is now saying that the account was never in their control in the first place. It was previously sending out MSNBC headlines, but then today went off the deep end, obviously. So I guess this is a lesson in controlling your online brand.
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MG Siegler, over at the paragon of journalistic integrity, TechCrunch, on a rogue msnbc twitter account that was never hacked and never under official control of either the cable or online network. It was just some idiot who plugged an RSS feed into a fake twitter account.
Yeah, dude, I guess it is a lesson in “controlling your online brand” or some other bullshit that douchebags say. I guess msnbc should hire someone to worry about any and every derivation of their name that shows up on every social network ever. Because that seems like a much better use of time than actually, you know, working.
Excuse me, I need to go register @TechCrunchHeadlines.
p.s. TechCrunch, update your useless CrunchBase entry on msnbc when you find a minute between sucking up to Google and Zuckerberg and not releasing a CrunchPad. It might involve some actual reporting, but I bet you’ve got it in you.

The OpenOffice 18 button mouse. This is why open source design sucks [via The Grubester]
John Jon “@zuhl” Deal has an awesome writeup on how to use an SSD drive with your Mac
Use the super fast solid state drive as your boot/OS/application drive, move your home folder for all your pictures and mp3s and whatnot somewhere else. Nicely done.
UPDATE: Egregious mispeling of JON Deel’s name corrected.
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From Last Days of Gourmet a photo essay looking at the closure of Gourmet magazine
Everything about this is wonderful, but it really heats up about four minutes in