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April 14, 2006
Web Sites Take a Gamble: If you've been wondering why Sporting News Radio is running ads against Internet gambling all the time, I wrote a story for Wired News that explains why. The feds are pursuing prosecution of web sites and other media that advertise online sportsbooks, poker rooms and Internet casinos. SportsFilter gets offers from them fairly frequently.
posted by rcade to navel gazing at 12:24 PM - 11 comments
That's broken, for some reason. I just started freelancing for them. My other pieces were on Damon Wayans' Nigga trademark and the center of the world (i.e. Coffeyville, Kansas).
posted by rcade at 01:50 PM on April 14, 2006
Did Wired cough up for the trip to Amsterdam to cover the conference?
posted by billsaysthis at 04:14 PM on April 14, 2006
Thanks rcade, I listen to SNR all the time and wondered what happened that forced them to start tunning these PSA's.
posted by geekyguy at 06:58 PM on April 14, 2006
SportsFilter gets offers from them fairly frequently So, do we get better odds or what?
posted by owlhouse at 07:52 PM on April 14, 2006
Amsterdam's not a nice place off your face.
posted by yerfatma at 07:57 PM on April 14, 2006
Nice work, rcade.
posted by worldcup2002 at 10:54 PM on April 14, 2006
Yeah, whatev. The real burning question is, does rcade have his "GoldenPalace.com" back tattoo yet?
posted by The_Black_Hand at 06:27 AM on April 15, 2006
Did Wired cough up for the trip to Amsterdam to cover the conference? Yep. But a prostitute stole my notes, so I had to quote from the convention's web site.
posted by rcade at 08:42 AM on April 15, 2006
Either that or you were too stoned to remember where you put your notes.
posted by wingnut4life at 09:51 AM on April 15, 2006
Love the piece on trademarking "nigga". I had hoped to do the same thing by trademarking and launching a clothing line based around the word "cracker", but it turns out L.L. Bean's been doing it for years.
posted by wfrazerjr at 12:05 PM on April 15, 2006
Self-link. A timely one at that: I've started hearing those ads on our local affiliate and they sound like the work of people who reminded teachers they forgot to assign homework. How come the "Also by this author" returns a 404? Does Wired want me working on Friday afternoon?