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Arguing with a child will just leave everyone frustrated, but some people never learn. If you thought blogfather Dave Winer’s recent spat with blowhard Jason Calacanis was childish, you don’t know the depths of the man’s juvenility. In January, he argued with commenter Nick Irelan on his blog, Scripting News, about the origins of RSS, blogging, and podcasts. But unlike most Winer spats, the Internet manchild’s typically disproportionate response could actually land him in legal trouble.

When Irelan persisted — acting like a child himself by trying, unsuccessfully, to delete and edit Winer’s Wikipedia entry — Winer retaliated by cybersquatting on the domain name NickIrelan.com. This could be a real problem for the inventor of RSS — it’s not only childish, it’s potentially illegal. If Dave were a mensch, he’d apologize and let go of the domain name.

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We’ve pointed out the perils of working at perpetual second-placer Yahoo before, but employee Rich Yueh wants to convince us we’re wrong with his mad rap skillz.

To the beat of the played-out Mims single “This is Why I’m Hot,” the happy worker attempt to flow:

This is where I work, this is where I work, this is where I work. I work at Yahoo, and you should too.

Aside from listing free amenities (the cafe, a gym Yueh doesn’t use enough, iced mochas, a backpack, and business cards he’ll never hand out), the zealous Yahoo does anything but persuade prospective hires. I don’t want to work with bland drones with bad dance moves and lame taste in music who are satiated by free coffee and large monitors, whose sense of rebellion is pretending to use a carpool parking space and to ghost a car. I’d be embarrassed if my coworkers were impressed by these supposedly “wicked” rhymes:

I work ’til six, sometimes nine to five. My boss likes the way I’m always on time, making sure my stuff goes live.

Word, Rich, word.

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