Akkam’s Razor

Forbes’ hysterical "Attack of the Blogs" is put into proper perspective by EFF lawyer Kurt Opsahl:

Boing Boing: Lyons’s blog-sliming compared to complaints about Founding Fathers:

Printing presses are the prized platform of a public lynch mob spouting liberty but spewing lies, libel and invective. Their potent allies in this pursuit include Ben Franklin and John Hancock.

Take the tea tax. Revenue was coming, providing much needed funding to help with his Majesty’s benevolent aims in the colonies.

…and unhappy endings. A missing teen, Taylor Behl, was the subject of Amber Alerts during September. The attractive 17-year old college freshman also had a MySpace account under the screenname of doowop.

Some websleuths quickly uncovered a few other details… like sn’s of lostinessence and drinkpinkrum. Further sleuthing uncovered a sexual relationship with one 38-year old Ben Fawley. Further sleuthing still uncovers a life below the rador of nude modeling and god knows what else.

Her body was recently discovered, and Frawley appears to be suspected in her murder.

Crime Library has the full story as a narrative, and there’s more incredibly depressing details here.