January 2012
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Company Bribes Customers for Five Star Reviews on... →
Accorrding to a report by the New York Times a compnay called VIP Deals has been offering its customers a complete refund on their purchase — while still allowing them to keep the item — in return for a review.
The product in question is a Vipertek brand premium slim black leather case for the Kindle Fire — a fairly lucrative market given how many Kindles were sold over the holidays. VIP Deals...
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“We’ve known about labor abuses in some factories for four years, and they’re...”
– A “former Apple executive” speaking to the New York Times about working conditions at suppliers’ plants in China.
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“Facebook does massive surveillance. If there is a ‘like’ button in a page,...”
– Richard Stallman
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FAQ: Google’s new privacy policy →
Google announced Tuesday that it will integrate users’ information across Gmail, YouTube, search and 57 other Google services.
Google privacy director Alma Whitten, who explained the changes in a company blog post released in the afternoon, said the company will “treat you as a single user across all our products, which will mean a simpler, more intuitive Google experience.”
What is Google...
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“Despite their bleak performance this year, the nation’s top six banks paid out...”
– Van Jones & George Goehl
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‘Super PAC’ for Gingrich to Get $5 Million... →
The supporter, Dr. Miriam Adelson, is the wife of Sheldon Adelson, a longtime Gingrich friend and a patron who this month contributed $5 million to the super PAC, Winning Our Future. Dr. Adelson’s check will bring the couple’s total contributions to Winning Our Future to $10 million, a figure that could substantially neutralize the millions of dollars already being spent in Florida by Mr. Romney...
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Belle & Sebastian - “Piazza, New York...
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Romney says Obama is improving the economy
From Wonkette:
INGRAHAM: You’ve also noted that there are signs of improvement on the horizon in the economy. How do you answer the president’s argument that the economy is getting better in a general election campaign if you yourself are saying it’s getting better?
ROMNEY: Well, of course it’s getting better. The economy always gets better after a recession, there is always a recovery. […]
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In 1997 Newt Gingrich Proposed the Death Penalty... →
As Speaker of the House, Gingrich introduced the “Drug Importer Death Penalty Act of 1996.”
The bill would have required a “sentence of death for certain importations of significant quantities of controlled substances.” It would have applied to anyone convicted more than once of carrying 100 doses — or about two ounces — or marijuana across the border. Defendants would have had a window of 18...
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JULIAN ASSANGE: THE ROLLING STONE INTERVIEW →
criminalwisdom:
“If the Pentagon is to have its way, it will be the end of national-security journalism in the United States.
How so?
They’re trying to interpret the Espionage Act to say that any two-way communication with a source is a collaboration with a source, and is therefore a conspiracy to commit espionage where classified information is involved. The Pentagon, in fact, issued a...
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How false reports of Joe Paterno’s death were... →
News spread quickly Saturday evening that former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno had died. Except, he hadn’t. (Paterno’s family announced his death on Sunday morning.)
Here is an account of how the misinformation spread.
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“Wells told the troopers that while out on a delivery he had been accosted by a...”
– The Incredible True Story of the Collar Bomb Heist
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“In America, a person is presumed innocent until proved guilty. Unless, that is,...”
– On the corrupt association that is the NCAA.
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““For the first time ever, all 100 firms on Fortune’s Best Companies To Work For...”
– Andrew Sullivan
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Wait...
So Obama sang Al Jolson last night? That’s so progressive.
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10 Other People Ronald Reagan's Diary Only...
mentalflossr:
During last night’s GOP debate, Mitt Romney attempted to minimize Newt Gingrich’s connection to President Reagan:
“I looked at the Reagan diary. You’re mentioned once in Ronald Reagan’s diary. And in the diary, he says you had an idea in a meeting of young congressmen, and it wasn’t a very good idea and he dismissed it. That’s the entire mention.” But the former Speaker is in...
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Why Are Tibetan Monks Setting Themselves on Fire? →
The rising practice of self-immolation follows severe government restrictions, an ebbing Tibetan identity, and reports of torture.
Namgyal’s treatment, not atypical for suspected Tibetan dissidents, is part of China’s response to the growing attention activists there have received in the past several years, especially after a campaign of self-immolations among the area’s...
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