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Cameron Diaz, Arianna Huffington, and the 1,196 other TED attendees Michael Arrington hates

TED, the schmoozeathon taking place in Monterey right now, prides itself on staying exclusive and bringing together only the best of Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and Manhattan. TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington is deeply unhappy that he's not invited. So much so that he staged a falling-out with Frenchepreneur Loic Le Meur, a gloating TED attendee. But he's really going to boil when he reads this: The complete list of TED's 1,198 attendees, each of whom he is now personally committed to hate. Arrington's new enemies list includes Al Gore, Amy Tan, Arianna Huffington, Ben Affleck, Cameron Diaz, Forest Whitaker, Isaac Mizrahi, Jeff Bezos, John Cusack, Maria Bartiromo, Marissa Mayer, Max Levchin, Meg Ryan, Peter Thiel, Roger McNamee, Si Newhouse IV, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Steve Case, Steve Wozniak, Thomas Dolby, Tim O'Reilly, and Will Smith. The rest are here.

5:38 PM on Thu Feb 28 2008
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impalpable observer at 05:54 PM on 02/28/08
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I bet Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has been insufferably "blissful" for that crowd. He puts on quite a show. Anything to get a few celebrity devotees to grow his cult in the States.
ThatKid at 06:12 PM on 02/28/08
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Two Chris Andersons! Time for a four-day-long name change back to Greg?
matto at 06:48 PM on 02/28/08
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The French Prince of Bel Aire got an invite and Mike didn't?
jack.miriklis at 06:58 PM on 02/28/08
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Haha at Matt Groening labelling himself as an "ink boy" and still getting an invite!
Luuce at 07:24 PM on 02/28/08
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I'm sure he could've gone, he just didn't get a free pass and didn't want to pay his own way.

Plus Will Smith is a freaking A-lister. How many non-techheads know the name Michael Arrington?
ThatKid at 09:10 PM on 02/28/08
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@matto: Yeah, and the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, too!
raincoaster at 11:57 PM on 02/28/08
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It IS exclusive, just not to those with intellectual cred.

Speaking of cred, Arianna had better tip her Photoshopper very well this Christmas.
robinwauters at 04:17 AM on 02/29/08
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Who's TED?
googoobaby at 10:56 AM on 02/29/08
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Why would you want to announce that you'd be attending anything with "Loic Le Meur"? It's like announcing that you're starring in a Chuck Jones short with Pepe Le Peu.