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Austin plane crash: Joe Stack’s suicide note

by Karoli on February 18, 2010 · 4 comments

Oliver Willis has posted links to a website which appears to be owned by Joseph Stack, the alleged pilot that crashed into the Austin FBI/IRS office building this morning. If the text is authentic, it appears that Mr. Stack had ongoing resentment toward the government and the IRS in particular. His somewhat rambling note on [...]

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Denver Plane Crash, Twittered

by Karoli on December 20, 2008 · 25 comments

The good and the bad of news on Twitter is this: First reports can often be akin to a game of Telephone, where the original message gets exaggerated or twisted just a little bit until it’s completely inaccurate, while others are actually telling the tale in real time and after the fact. The first reports [...]

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