Benjamin Cavanagh Diggles

I am the Senior Manager Web Marketing at Webtrends. I am 29, happily married + living in Portland, Oregon. I don't have many reasons for keeping this blog. I tend to talk about emerging web culture + how ridiculous the media is but the majority of this site consists of stuff that makes me smile. find archives here

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all posts tagged // cnn

nah, you guys can have this mess

Posted: March 9, 2010

it is interesting that while we blame everyone and their sister in the middle east for 9/11 they all call shenanigans. osama bin laden even warned about the attacks a few days before 9/11 saying that what is about to happen has absolutely nothing to do with him or his people. hell, i could go [...]

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do you like to fuck?

Posted: February 25, 2010

welcome to 2010’s most popular excuse for cheating on your spouse. i know his pr agency was sitting around brainstorming thinking how do we bring tiger back? we need to somehow make him look like a victim………… wait… i got it! it’s the vagina’s fault! he’s like, uh uh addicted! yeah!
well, fuck you pr agency [...]

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discrimination marketing 101

Posted: January 8, 2010

strong messaging being poured into our eyeballs lately. – cnn

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i love beautiful people dot com

Posted: January 5, 2010

don’t get me wrong, it is nothing i support – but this is the sort of thing that makes me fall in love with the web all over again. beautifulpeople.com is a social dating site that only allows it’s member to be beautiful. and if you don’t meet their criteria then you get kicked out. [...]

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it’s a sign of the times when…

Posted: December 15, 2009

… some asshole who beat his girlfriend up shows up on the front page of cnn for deleting his twitter account. the 3 people dying didn’t even get the same real estate.
it is moments like these that i get really depressed. it is moments like these that i reflect on all of the times people [...]

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scan the cosmos for undiscovered objects

Posted: December 14, 2009

the first sentence of the story on cnn:

NASA launched a new telescope into space on Monday to scan the cosmos for undiscovered objects, including asteroids and comets that might threaten Earth.

wondering if this is the beginning of the paper trail for them to say well, we thought it would be a great idea to just [...]

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jon stewart on crossfire 2004

Posted: December 2, 2009

my friend lindsay was over last night and she shared this. it was the first time i had seen it but apparently it is a very studied piece of work.
i know 14 mins is a long stretch for the internet mind but it is worth checking out. jon stewart is the man.
another classic is the [...]

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i don’t believe nasa

Posted: October 20, 2009

they know things that would make your head explode. they paint whatever picture they want and roll it out when they want. might as well say 3000 planets.
if you could do what they can do, you would probably do the exact same thing.
you can read the article here and make up your own mind – [...]

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the sydney dust storm is rad

Posted: September 23, 2009

story highlights:

Residents of Sydney, Australia wake to eerie red haze over surrounding areas
Weather forecasters say strong north-westerly winds blew dust in overnight
Wind blew dust storm north onto Brisbane, predicted to move further north
iReporter: “It was totally bizarre to wake up and see such a red bizarre sky”

see more cool pictures here
read about the story here

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messeging using valuable real estate

Posted: September 15, 2009

i am sure if you have used google in the last 24 hours you may have noticed the crop circle banner used on the google home page. a few weeks ago there was another alien theme as well. what makes them both weird is that there is no explanation of why they were there. and [...]

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My God Foresaken Cellphone Says:

"I come up with ideas and you build them" - if I had a nickle for every time I have heard that I would have a shit load of nickles. 5 hrs ago

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