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Julia Allison, the ex-girlfriend of Jakob Lodwick, agreed to chat with her sadmirers on sister site Gawker. In the comments, she revealed the real reason why the attention-seeker was fired from his own company Vimeo:

He was fired for “insubordination” — meaning, he didn’t agree with the strategy IAC had for Vimeo, and he just ignored them when they told him to do things. He thinks of himself as Howard Roark and IAC’s middle management as one huge Peter Keating, so getting fired fit into that storyline quite nicely. I think he saw it as almost heroic.

Also, Jakob has strong body order, unmasked by Tom’s of Maine’s natural deodorant — which may have contributed to the firing, not to mention his breakup. I don’t remember Ayn Rand making her Fountainhead protagonist’s hygiene habits explicit, but I’m pretty sure the architect bathed regularly. Maybe Lodwick would be better served emulating his fictional idol’s hygienic standards, rather than “heroically” pissing off the bosses he knowingly sold his company to. (Photo by Noah Kalina)

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Saudi blogger Fouad al-Farhan was arrested by government authorities and detained for “purposes of interrogation.” Fouad says, in a letter posted on his blog, that he was arrested because he “wrote about the political prisoners here in Saudi Arabia, and they think I’m running an online campaign promoting their issue.” A friend of Fouad’s claims he was the first blogger to post items in Arabic and to use his real name. And the first to be detained by Saudi state security. A Saudi official said “he is not being jailed. He is being questioned, and I don’t believe he will remain in detention long. They will get the information that they need from him and then they will let him go.” I’m glad I live in America. The worst I can get from a post is a critical comment from Nick Denton. Which is, despite rumors, a bit easier to take than a visit from some intelligence officers.

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