Dillon Kato

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In a similar statement released minutes earlier, ABC News said the report was “incorrect” but did not include the apology. “Several other local residents with similar names were also contacted via social media by members of the public who mistook them for the suspect,” the initial statement read.

Other people were getting it wrong too, so it’s all okay. What? We’re supposed to be professionals dedicated to the truth whose work is more than a Google search? News to us.

How has Brian Ross not been fired by now?

Sean Conboy/Wired

One indicator I have to recognize great writing. I couldn’t care less about NFL or football in general, but was riveted by this piece.

Ben Kuchera/Penny Arcade

So not only is there no finished hardware, no service at the moment, no controller, and no games—although we’re being asked to take their word that they can create each of those things in eight months—but focusing development costs on an incredibly risky platform with a small installed base and features that make piracy all but given makes no sense for most developers who release games you’d like to play.

The best comparison I have seen is to the PSP. Even with Sony’s millions behind it, it has never been able to catch on in a big way.

There have been a handful of high profile Kickstarter campaigns in the last six months. I think the story next year is going to be the backlash of people who ponied up money expecting the moon and being disappointed in the end product.

The Gipper’s advice to his son.

Howard Owens/CJR

Most of the paywall advocates I see and read around the Web are the same people in the late 1990s who proclaimed the Web to be a fad. They’re the same people who throughout my online newspaper career didn’t want to break news online, didn’t want to carry a video camera, didn’t want to feature current local news on the homepage, didn’t want to engage with online readers—they pretty much either worked actively or passively to sabotage every attempt at online innovation.

Peter Burrows and Adam Satariano/Businessweek

Schiller always seems like the goofy uncle at Apple. A little too old to be really hip but still making the effort all the same.

Dieter Bohn/The Verge

If this turns out to be true, Microsoft couldn’t be making a bigger mistake in losing the trust of the customers they have managed to collect.

Matt Labash/The Weekly Standard

One of conservatism’s greatest generals has passed. The most fearless, bar none.

#IamAndrewBreitbart

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Carney also denied that rising gas prices were Obama’s fault.

Breaking News: Magic, still not real.

Ugh.

Also, no cups?