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NY’s “Amazon Tax” Takes First Casualty: Overstock Affiliates
via TechCrunch by Jason Kincaid on May 14, 2008
Overstock.com has terminated its contracts with affiliates based in New York in response to the state’s recently enacted “Amazon Tax”. The drastic move is likely the first of many, as online retailers display their objection to the new law.The backlash comes in response to New York’s misguided attempt to collect taxes from online shoppers. Up until now, online retailers have only had to...
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The New Clinton Base
via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan by (author unknown) on May 16, 2008
Shared by Eater I heard that Obama eats babies and was originally one of the 9/11 hijackers. (Oh, and he's "a racists".)"I heard that Obama is a Muslim and his wife's an atheist," - Leonard Simpson, a West Virginia Democrat. Then this:Josh Fry, a 24-year-old ambulance driver from Williamson, insisted hewas not racist but said he would feel more comfortable with Mr McCain,the 71-year-old...
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The White House Changes Targets
via Marc Ambinder by (author unknown) on May 16, 2008
Shared by Eater I thought it was obvious he was talking more about Carter than Obama, considering the audience.Ed Gillespie, gaggling to reporters today in Saudi Arabia, said that the White House really meant to Get Carter, not Obama:"We did not anticipate that it would be taken that way, because its kind of hard to take it that way when you look at the actual words. ... There was some...
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Will Eisner M-16 U.S. Army rifle maintenance booklet (1968)
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder on May 15, 2008
Ethan Persoff scanned a US Army rifle maintenance booklet from 1968 that instructs soldiers to treat their rifles like a woman. Art by the incomparable WIll Eisner. Link
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Bare Breasted Starbucks Logo is Perverted!
via Right Pundits by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
Shared by Eater I live in a country where people get angry over badly drawn, 15th century, *cartoon* boobies.There is a new Starbucks logo and some people are upset about it saying its vulgar. See photos of the old and new logo and a video below. You tell me, is it perverted or not?Starbucks LogoA Christian group out of San Diego called ‘The Resistance’ is VERY upset with Starbucks new logo....
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Surfing the Class
via Freakonomics by (author unknown) on May 14, 2008
Shared by Eater Meetings where everybody is reading their email make me furious. Do I *really* have to go sit in a room for a full hour so everybody can ignore everyone else and play with their laptops? (*Smash*.)Several years ago I watched a particularly memorable “Law Revue” skit night at Yale. One of the skits had a group of students sitting at desks, facing the audience, listening to a...
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Interfacing your laptops onboard i2c
via Hack a Day by Will O'Brien on May 14, 2008
Filed under: laptops hacks, misc hacks, daily[ladyada] ran acrossthis excellent hack by [phillip]. Apparently there's a clock, data, 5v and ground connection available in most modern video connections. (He even notes HDMI cable pins) He wrote some drivers and can now control i2c hardware directly from the PC Mac. [Ladyada] notes that most laptops use an i2c bus for extra sensors as well. For...
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Mormon Church Goes After WikiLeaks
via Slashdot by (author unknown) on May 14, 2008
Shared by Eater OHNOEz! OUR SEKRITZ!An anonymous reader writes "The Mormon Church has instructed its lawyers to gag the Internet over WikiLeaks' release of the 1968 and 1999 versions of its confidential handbook for Church leaders. Apart from attacking WikiLeaks, legal demands were sent to Jimmy Wales of the WikiMedia foundation for a WikiNews article merely linking to the material, and...
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Michael Pollan Speaks In Defense Of Food [Food]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on May 11, 2008
Author of In Defense of Food Michael Pollan explained his "eater's manifesto" at Google last month. Watch the video to hear Pollan discuss his seven word philosopy ("Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.")—or download the hour-long clip it to your iPod to watch later. Michael Pollan Speaks In Defense Of Food [Building a Better Geek]
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Biggest. Government. Ever.
via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan by (author unknown) on May 13, 2008
Shared by Eater wri/stsGeorge Bush's real legacy. No need for panic calls to Ramesh, Jonah. It's right in front of your nose.
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