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BBC News – Amazon row over ‘rape’ T-shirt
Internet retailer Amazon is continuing to list clothes from a US firm despite a row over a T-shirt with the slogan Original post on bbc.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
Printer ink cartridges: why you’re paying more but getting a lot less – Money
Big printer companies are accused of ‘squeezing ever-increasing amounts of cash out of the poor consumer’ Original post on guardian.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
Gas company targets protected Manú park in Peruvian Amazon – Environment
Leaked documents reveal Pluspetrol is eyeing a region where biodiversity ‘exceeds that of any other place on Earth’ Original post on guardian.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
Muslim patrols could become more prevalent and more violent, warns anti-extremist
Muslim patrols stalking British streets could become “a lot more dangerous” and perhaps even willing to maim or kill, the head of an anti-extremism organisation has warned. Original post on telegraph.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
I Was a Paid Internet Shill: How Shadowy Groups Manipulate Internet Opinion and Debate
A man blows the whistle on his work as an internet shill, his shadowy employer, and ethically dubious tactics. Original post on consciouslifenews.com Comments on reddit.com
$17,000 Linux-powered rifle brings “auto-aim” to the real world
Austin-based startup makes “Precision Guided Firearms” sporting a lot of tech. Original post on arstechnica.com Comments on reddit.com
Google Now: behind the predictive future of search
How Google learned to un-fragment itself and create the next big thing Original post on theverge.com Comments on reddit.com
Was spruce-up of Point Breeze lot a trespass?
THE CITY-OWNED lot, neighbors say, was in deplorable shape, thick with weeds and trash. So when a business owner cleaned it up last month, spending more than $20,000 and removing, by his count, more Original post on philly.com Comments on reddit.com
Google’s Giving YouTube a Pass With Its New Piracy Provisions
Google is implementing a new policy that will smack down search results from sites that get a lot of DMCA requests. That must affect Google’s own YouTube, which must get slammed with them all the time, right? Not exactly. Original post on gizmodo.com Comments on reddit.com
Why Ireland scrapped their voting machines – YouTube
Sikh tenets of forgiveness and peace on display at Oak Creek vigil – World news – guardian.co.uk
Hundreds turn out for vigil honouring victims of Wisconsin temple shooting as many learn about the faith for the first time Original post on guardian.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
Chick-Fil-A Store Manager Talks About His Job On Reddit – Business Insider
The truth about bigotry and chicken sandwiches. Original post on businessinsider.com Comments on reddit.com
Kevin Rose reflects on Digg, the dangers of outside investors, and his legacy – Tech News and Analysis
Members of the media pointed to the $500,000 sale of Digg’s assets as a fall from grace for one of the web’s original social sites. Founder Kevin Rose, now at Google Ventures, looks back on what he learned and how he’s like to be seen. Original post on gigaom.com Comments on digg.com
Aurora: We shouldn’t be surprised – Salon.com
It’s shocking that shootings like the one in Aurora don’t happen more often: They’re easy to carry out Original post on salon.com Comments on reddit.com
The laser-powered bionic eye that gives 576-pixel grayscale vision to the blind – ExtremeTech
After a lot of theorizing, posturing, and non-human trials, it looks like bionic eye implants are finally hitting the market… Original post on extremetech.com Comments on reddit.com
Mars Might Have a Lot More Water Than We Knew – Popular Science
MintLife Blog – Personal Finance News & Advice – The Overhang Theory: How to Live Below Your Means
Instead of taking a look at your savings rate to evaluate your personal finances, maybe it’s time to measure your overhang. Read on to learn more about what overhang means and how this concept can help you live below your means. Original post on mint.com Comments on digg.com
Bartiromo: Fund manager bet against Facebook and won – USATODAY.com
Former star technology analyst turned investor Dan Niles is among the happiest Facebook investors because he bet against the company. Original post on usatoday.com Comments on reddit.com
Innovation isn’t dead, it just moved to the cloud – Cloud Computing News
According to some doomsayers, innovation is dead and Silicon Valley is just a muck pond where social media companies breed and reproduce like mosquitoes. That’s not entirely true, but the face of innovation has changed. Cloud computing has made innovation something anyone can do. Original post on gigaom.com Comments on digg.com
Romney Shifts Gears On Auto Industry Bailout: NPR
Mitt Romney has very publicly opposed the government bailout of the auto industry. So the likely GOP nominee raised more than a few eyebrows this week when he said: Original post on npr.org Comments on reddit.com
Paul Krugman on How to Fix the Economy – and Why It’s Easier Than You Think – Julian Brookes – Politics News – Rolling Stone
Four years after the start of the Great Recession, nobody would mistake U.S. economy for a thrumming engine of growth, prosperity, and human flourishi Original post on rollingstone.com Comments on digg.com
Attention Deficit Delirium – Blog Archive – Drew Goddard: All-Terrain Monster Man
Energy Roundup – President Obama Compares GOP to Flat Earth Society
Ex-Microsoft Employee Launches ‘Fixing Windows 8′ Initiative
It seems that Microsoft’s latest version of Windows is receiving a mixed reaction: some people like it, and some people don’t. Naturally you can’t please everyone on the planet, but we really haven’t heard this much negativity since Windows… Original post on tomshardware.com Comments on reddit.com
Internet Evolution – Editor’s Blog – RIAA CEO Hopes SOPA Protests Were a ‘One-Time Thing’
RIAA CEO Cary Sherman responds to my asking whether he really thinks an informed, democratic public is a bad thing. Original post on internetevolution.com Comments on reddit.com
Solar System Educational Program – Using UDK – YouTube
Brazil’s Falling Birth Rate: A ‘New Way Of Thinking’: NPR
In the past half-century, the fertility rate for a typical Brazilian woman has tumbled from six children to fewer than two. There are several factors at work, and one of them appears to be the glamorous female characters in hugely popular soap operas, who have few, if any, children. More