Benjamin Cavanagh Diggles

I am a Channel Sales Manager at Webtrends. I am 30, 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 // katu

go big

Posted: March 13, 2010

items of interest is funny. it looks like a movie set. oh and they somehow failed to mention the terrifying clown mask in the laundry list above. read the story here

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katu swine flu fail

Posted: September 20, 2009

the news is pushing the shit of this swine flu thing. and the pictures are getting sluttier by the minute. i am sure a grade school kid is more terrified of being associated with a fat pig than actually being sick. hey jim, i love the pig! is there any way we can get it [...]

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katu news snap

Posted: August 29, 2009

so a while back i signed up for an account at intense debate so i could comment on the news. and as you can see from my -1p i haven’t been well received. here are the rules on katu’s site: Keep it clean – This is a public forum, open to civilized people who do [...]

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microsoft – “we do not like black people”

Posted: August 26, 2009

i love this story but i am not surprised. advertising sometimes is not too far off from blatant racism. social profiling and stereotyping is everywhere and in cases like this it sometimes leaks. microsoft put together an ad that they later decided to make some ethnic (sloppy) changes to. katu says it best: A photo [...]

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need fireworks? we got you covered.

Posted: June 3, 2008

i went to check out the local news last night and it was a challenge for me to find something positive on the screen. i even highlighted it for you. i am sure they are hoping that if they facilitate the distribution of fireworks it will better their chance at a fresh tragic headline: 7 [...]

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who takes katu’s pictures? oliver stone?

Posted: January 14, 2008

I have started to notice that katu has had some pretty dramatic pictures lately. i first noticed it when i saw the wheelchair picture below that i posted on a while back. and now we have a shoe in the road. snap! i wonder how many pics the guy got turned down on. so this [...]

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today in portland news

Posted: November 28, 2007

i came into work this morning and these were the portland headlines on katu. wow. not to be a jerk but the picture of the wheelchair is priceless.

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google street views features portland

Posted: October 10, 2007

this is insane! i swear there are so many things i am starting to think are possible. like me posting on my blog consistently. getting back at it here i swear. google has released a thing called google street views that allows you to see images from just about any location in a city. they [...]

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katu = kapture all the ugly

Posted: July 28, 2007

living in portland i check the local news site katu all the time. it is my preferred local site mainly because i like the interface and i think it is the cleanest site out of all the local sites available. kgw for example makes you sign up to read the news. retards. i like to [...]

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@garettstenson I have a solution for you for both screencast and URL shortner. Let's connect. Lunch?!?? Poi! in reply to garettstenson 2 days ago

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