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Christien
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Apparently this email only came to members of the PR team? I can't find anything about this on the ColeFusion or City Journal Post sites, and haven't received any such emails. Do you have a link to the announcement you can share, Christien? Thanks!

Yeah, sorry about that. I should have posted the actual email. For some reason I assumed that everybody got it.
It won't happen again.

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Christien
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 		New article in the CJP about the ColeFusion/Grown Town Coffee partnership.
I have no idea where that picture was taken. I'll try to figure it out where it is, just in case.

The article:
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Do you take your coffee with milk, sugar, or free WIFI? You can soon have all three.

After a brief negotiation, ColeFusion and GrownTown Coffee have announced a partnership, wherein GrownTown Coffee locations will be the first coffee shops to feature ColeFusions's brand-new, lightning fast wireless internet service.

"We believe that free internet is the way of the future", said a spokesperson for both companies, "People used to browse over complimentary newspapers while they drank their coffees. Now physical newspapers are relics of the past. GrownTown is stepping into the twenty-first century and offering complimentary internet – and not just any internet, but the best internet possible for our customers."

As part of the deal, all of the coffee giant's locations in The City and outlying areas will have routers installed, starting with the flagship location in the downtown core, and progressively working outwards. There will be no limit on bandwidth use and no passwords will be necessary.

Next week ColeFusion and GrownTown Coffee will host an all-day event at GrownTown's downtown location to celebrate the launch of this new service. Representatives from both companies will be on hand to answer questions and to familiarize the public with this new tool, and free coffee will be offered to the first one hundred visitors to the store.


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amandel
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 		Comment in the CJP article by Spencer Avery is our new lead: Net Kept Secret with a contact at 'spenceravery@live.ca'. So, any wagers on how long they've got?

Guess someone should leak MF's email to them. Honestly, I'm still primarily interested in the "kitchen" murders & post mortem abuses 'tho am getting nowhere.
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Christien
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 		So far, I think almost every new group or character has had some sort of drop. I'm gonna be out of town for about ten days after next week. I'll see if marduk can do it if there is one.
If not, toxology, are you available in case something happens?

Otherwise, I'll politely let the pm's know that I'm unavailable from the 12th to the 21st Wink

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Rich Reder
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 		[quote="Christien"]New article in the CJP about the ColeFusion/Grown Town Coffee partnership.
I have no idea where that picture was taken. I'll try to figure it out where it is, just in case.

Interesting bit of trivia on this photo: The name on the menu of Grown Town Coffee Shop is Lila's.

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Christien
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The name on the menu of Grown Town Coffee Shop is Lila's.

Lila's. I'll do some looking around for that. I zoomed into the picture to try to get the name off the menu as well, but the photo became so distorted I've been looking for a place called "Liaso". Which obviously yielded no results.
I was also trying to look through the window to see if I recognize the street outside, but it's pretty generic.

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Rich Reder
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The ARG machinations of Cole Fusion are not all that far removed from Real Life: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/08/the-legislation-that-could-kill-internet-privacy-for-good/242853

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Rich Reder
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Christien wrote:
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The name on the menu of Grown Town Coffee Shop is Lila's.

Lila's. I'll do some looking around for that. I zoomed into the picture to try to get the name off the menu as well, but the photo became so distorted I've been looking for a place called "Liaso". Which obviously yielded no results.
I was also trying to look through the window to see if I recognize the street outside, but it's pretty generic.

I copied the photo to my 'Intel' album in the Kodak EasyShare program; it gives a larger-sized clear resolution. Smile Then I ran 'Lila's' through internet phone search... didn't match anything in Montreal, but there was a Lila's coffee & chocolate shop in New Orleans, LA, US (now Lilah's). It's interesting, though, that they didn't bother photo-shopping out that name in creating a pic for Grown Town Coffee Shop - makes me think they wanted us to see it? Time will tell...

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Rich Reder
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 		The new Net Kept Secret protest group
Here's an email I sent them the day the CJP article was published:
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I believe in it! How can I help you organize protests?

And here's their reply:
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Hello Rich Reder,

We are currently planning a protest at the upcoming ColeFusion propaganda fest taking place at Grown Town Coffee.
I myself will be there to voice the importance of net privacy. I will be putting up our posters all around the coffee shop right before the event.
You can help us by sending in your posters.

Send us a modified picture of your computer which you believe best symbolises net privacy and I will personally post it on Grown Town Coffee's walls. Together we can show ColeFusion just how important privacy is to all web users. We can show them that the power of the people is always stronger than the power of corporations.

Show them your strength. Send us your poster.

Spencer Avery
Net Kept Secret


Any creative ideas for this?

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Christien
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 		I just got the same email. *sigh* one of those 'homework' email...
Damn, you fast on the trigger, you beat me to the post.

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CapnZ
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 		searching for net-privacy pictures I found the original colefusion logo:

http://successnetworks.net/privacy.html

New article in the post, me thinks they got hacked!

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amandel
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 		Smile That CJP hack defines an Alt Reality & the photo of "The former King addresses anxious reporters this morning" can be found in News dating back to October 2007
ETA:Caps in 'Hi-jinx After Celebrated King Ends Dynasty" actually spell HACKED Laughing & just emailed the CJP for a comment about this.
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CCS
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 		Can anyone make anything of the series of small black and white dots at the upper right corner of the "King" photo? Doesn't look like Morse to me, but does seem to be a pattern.

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CapnZ
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 		Another article in the CJP about a gorilla attack, are these in game or did they actually get hacked?

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amandel
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 		HeHe.....hope it's IG and it's certainly not boring. What connects the articles is that they're both about a "King" (?being dethroned?).
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