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Hi Owen,
Thanks for leaving a comment and congrats on your Technorati ranking. It’s actually much higher as this little tidbit from Harper’s points out:
Estimated number of fake blogs created every day by websites to improve their rankings in search-engine results: 6,750[Technorati (San Francisco)]» http://harpers.org/Mendacity.html#20060710gennfofqyxai
I’m sorry I didn’t use your name, I didn’t feel comfortable doing so.
At any rate, I did check out that Institute of Medicine of the National Academies study. It was so generic it was pointless. Hydrogen chloride technically can rehydrate. I kinda felt they were grasping for straws.
At any rate, I thought you might be interested in this:
I wrote about an inappropriate response by a proprietor of a restaurant in my neighborhood in a website’s thread. She found it and kinda went batshit. I don’t really know what to make of it, maybe you do?
http://nyuprprogram.blogspot.com/2006/08/diy-pr-lesson-1-dont-respond-to.html

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