PUNCHING KITTY

St. Louis native and creator of the freakishly popular social network Twitter has been promising something new from his brain for a while now.  Today the big black sheet was pulled off the shiny new website for that idea: Square.

Today the Square team is focused on bringing immediacy, transparency, and approachability to the world of payments: an inherently social interaction each of us participates in daily. We’re starting with a limited beta and rolling out to everyone in early 2010.

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Its December!  So get ready for list after list after list and then a few list tv specials on VH1 about this “crazy” year!  …all the while forgetting that something might happen in the last few weeks.

The first entrant is Google, as they released their 2009 Zeitgeist that lists all kinds of interesting search data from the last year. For instance?  The top 10 search terms for stadiums which Yankee Stadium came in #1 and our own Busch Stadium came in 9th.

The slow march of a former media giant towards death can be sad to watch…

Our source in the Post Dispatch tells us that the latest of the series of cost cutting measures is that all reporters, and even a few other positions, are losing their company paid cell phones.  To be fair, our source did say that they will be reimbursing the staff for personal phone use, but in something that’s just too good to make up, the paper did suggest that the staff add as many business numbers to their “calling circles”.

The last time we updated you on the charges against former KFNS producer Ryan Huff, we had this as the next step:

The case is #09JE-CR00165-01 “The State vs Ryan A. Huff” and will be heard by Judge Mark T Stoll.  There is a pre-trial set for November 13, 2009, with the actual jury trial starting on November 30th, 2009.

…so its no wonder we started getting emails this last week for updates on this case since it appears that the wheels were finally in motion.

The scene: Yesterday around 4pm, Twitter

The official Pearl Jam Twitter account spits out a seemingly innocuous “Twitter Contest” tweet.

“Hmm, whatever.” You thought.  “Its probably in New York, or LA…its freakin’ always in one of those two places.  Screw it, I’ll click on the picture anyway, might be some hot chick (or dude) in it.”

Remember this post from a while back?  We found a video on YouTube of a young, mustachioed Charles Jaco (Now of Fox2) on CNN.  The commentary bookending the video says that Jaco “faked” this news report and that it was all filmed in a studio.

Lets be clear: Those views, as we stated in the post, are of the video maker’s.  Not ours.  Frankly that was pretty clear.

From the post “Did Charles Jaco Fake a Desert Storm CNN Report?“:

We didn’t realize that City Diner, one of our favorite local eateries, was not only open for Thanksgiving, but had a special menu, but one of our readers did!  …and they sent us photos!

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  The deal was $15.95 for all-you-can eat which included all of your standard turkey-day faire.
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  The final verdict?  &#8220;It was very good!&#8221; said our tipster while no doubt sitting on the couch with their jeans unzipped.
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As all of you are out today feeding the economy, we at Punching Kitty hope you had a good Thanksgiving.

We’ll be back next week!

No surprise here.

Still worried about Holliday?  Don’t.  Worry about Pujols, the future $30 million dollar man.

Photo from ESPN.com

I really want to stop posting about this Kurt Greenbaum thing, but interesting things keep popping up.  Like this:  At one point in this whole mess, the term “Kurt Greenbaum” was the 29th most searched term on Google!

Think about that for a second.  That’s amazing!

Also, this is amazing…