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Breakup Via Wikipedia and Ebay

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Couple on opposite sides of keyboard

It took a few years, but manly ingenuity has finally found a worse way to break up with someone than on a post-it note.  Wikipedia creator Jimmy Wales dumped his girlfriend, Fox News commentator Rachel Marsden, through a post on his own website. The recently divorced website mogul took notice of the cute Canadian conservative because her Wikipedia page was splashed with haterade. When Marsden asked for some help editing the site, Wales offered to get her out of one sticky situation and into another via IM.  The best part is, just like the breakup, you can read what they typed with one hand online thanks to his competitors at Google, whose sites’ features allowed her to save their Gchat convos.  When Wales threatened to have her deported after the split, Ms. Marsden, who has a history of harassing ex-boyfriends, decided to retaliate by emailing the IMs around to the press and using eBay to sell the personal items he left behind at her apartment. One of his t-shirts with a big “white stain” is going for over $12,000. Um, why?

Tags: breakups, ebay, wikipedia, fox news, gchat, jimmy wales, rachel marsden

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Amelia
wrote on March 4 2008 @ 01:06 pm: [report]

Remember when web nerds were sweet and unassuming?


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