Comments on: CURIOUS INDEX, 5/17/08

By: matt

matt — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:20:14 +0000

#23

Wow, great choice of words…. Pun intended?

By: Fesser

Fesser — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:47:23 +0000

Best wishes to the Hawkeye Nation, and ZOMG Benjamin! Sweet! And eff the Des Moines Register.

By: Captain Kirk

Captain Kirk — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:54:45 +0000

UP Rocks. Michigan Tech is easily one of the best 100 teams in Div 2.

By: maskedavenger

maskedavenger — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:22:43 +0000

Redundant –

The EDSBS comment manager has feature that it will hold comments from new IP addresses until Orson has had the opportunity to ok them. When that approval occurs the comment is put in the order it was received. Which explains why my earlier comment appears unnecessary the paper’s had not been approved when mine was entered.

Defensiveness aside, I did find your comment to be funny.

By: redundant

redundant — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:17:30 +0000

The paper posted this in EDSBS’s comment section:

This was a misunderstanding. I apologize on behalf of The Des Moines Register. Simply an employee trying to do their job but not completely understanding our new technology (we recently got embed code on our videos).

Chris Snider
DesMoinesRegister.com

By: meatybob

meatybob — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:16:25 +0000

Regardless of the apology, I understand how these things happen. With the law, when you allow one instance, you have to open the flood gates to everything. That is why things looks so stupid on a case by case basis, but I don’t think the law looks at that way. If you allow it once, you always have to allow videos on every blog or whatever.

I guess that I also why I am a NCAA apologist.

By: maskedavenger

maskedavenger — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:23:52 +0000

The paper posted this in BHGP’s comment section:

Chris Snider
Assistant Managing Editor/Digital
DesMoinesRegister.com

By: hobeg8r

hobeg8r — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:11:34 +0000

I just emailed the editor of the Des Moine Register – calling them idiots. This is the response I just received.

“This was all a misunderstanding on our part. I have sent a message to the author of the blog telling him we were wrong. Our policy was never updated to reflect our new technology.

Thanks for helping bring this to our attention.”

By: Chris Snider

Chris Snider — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:04:14 +0000

Chris Snider
DesMoinesRegister.com

By: yoyofutbawl

yoyofutbawl — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:53:12 +0000

I saw where Krispy Kreme stock is making a comeback.

Coincidence? I think not.

By: zinzarin

zinzarin — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:47:59 +0000

The Des Moines Register is owned by the Gannett company:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gannett_Company

Also owned by The Gannett Company are:
USA Today
USA Weekend
The Arizona Republic (Phoenix)
Indianapolis Star (Indianapolis)
The Enquirer (Cincinnati)
The Tennessean (Nashville)
The Courier-Journal (Louisville)
The Honolulu Adviser
The Detroit Free Press

If anyone’s going to stop frequenting the Des Moines Register, might as well broaden that to include all of Gannett’s holdings.

By: carlinthemarlin

carlinthemarlin — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:47:40 +0000

Walter Benjamin referenced on a football blog! I don't think I've ever been prouder of my fellow man. Well done sir. The whole essay's here if you've got time and, like me, totally get off on this nerdy, art-philosophy stuff.

By: dex

dex — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:35:00 +0000

If the UP ever does leave the US, it’ll take six months before anyone outside of the Northern lower peninsula even notices.

By: Shane

Shane — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:19:43 +0000

Greg Olsen, G-Reg of the 7th floor crew , is also originally from New Jersey.

By: Ground0EastLansing

Ground0EastLansing — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:14:33 +0000

U.P. Militiamen? They’re all militiamen up there Orson. Their chief export is pasties (the meat pie, not the boob covering), and they’re actively planning their succession from the U.S. You’ve been warned, Mackinaw bridge.