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		<title>Boo! Google Doodle Celebrates Halloween with Zany Video</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/31/boo-google-doodle-celebrates-halloween-with-zany-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s big and scary and orange and glows in the dark? If you said a jack-o-lantern, close, but not quite: Try Google&#8217;s latest, greatest doodle, a time-lapse video of a quirky pumpkin-carving jamboree. And action: Six mammoth pumpkins—we&#8217;re talking the size of boulders here—rest on bales of hay in the middle of a grassy field, tended by six knife-wielding attendees wearing black shirts, one of which says &#8220;staff.&#8221; The story&#8217;s told in still shots, linked together in a kind of time lapse sequence. (MORE: Search and Strum: Play a Tune on Google&#8217;s Les Paul Doodle) And then things take off, as the music, which my wife says sounds like a hot club number, kicks up along with the frame tempo. Passerby stop to sit and watch. Cleaners arrive with wheelbarrows to scoop up the pulpy pumpkin detritus. Someone in a Godzilla suit chases a woman with a tail out of frame. The face of some guy in a black bicycle helmet briefly fills the camera. Some of the carvers pause to perform the Village People&#8217;s &#8220;YMCA.&#8221; Others show up, it seems in costume, one holding a dartboard, another standing in front of a light green cylinder—either a trashcan or a Google Android robot-thingamajig. Uncle Sam drops by, as does a guy in an orange robo-suit and eventually even Santa Claus puts in an appearance. The carving continues and you can make out the curve of a giant &#8220;G&#8221; at left. Clearly the six pumpkins—one for each of the letters in the word &#8220;Google&#8221;—are meant to be eponymous, but it&#8217;s not clear at this point how. And then the shadows lengthen as the sun completes its arc, the black contours of leaf-filled tree branches spreading over the tableau. There&#8217;s some last minute posing and touching-up, and then, just as twilight arrives, the lights come on inside the pumpkins, revealing the elaborate work of the carvers, and voila: Google&#8217;s latest doodle (and scene). MORE: Google Snatches Over 1,000 IBM Patents Matt Peckham is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @mattpeckham or on Facebook.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=101355&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Online Campaign Aims to Stop Congress from Jailing Justin Bieber</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An anti-piracy bill currently in Congress could, if passed, put Justin Bieber in jail for five years, according to a new online campaign against the bill. Clearly, this campaign has not considered that the idea may cause all manner of conflict for those who are pro-electronic freedom but anti-Bieber. The bill, S.978, is one that defines illegal streaming of copyrighted content as consisting of &#8220;10 or more public performances by electronic means, during any 180-day period of 1 of more copyrighted works&#8221; that has financial value of at least $2,500, an offense it would make punishable by up to five years in prison. The bill is backed by the Recording Industry Association of America, the Motion Picture Association of America and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. (MORE: Tila, Quarterlife and $#*!: Why Social Media and Old Media Don&#8217;t Mix) The Free Bieber campaign is the creation of the organization Fight For The Future, which points out &#8220;Didn&#8217;t Justin Bieber get famous by posting YouTube videos of himself singing copyrighted R&#38;B songs? Yep. If this bill passes, he could get 5 years in jail.&#8221; That&#8217;s a charge denied by a spokesman for Senator Amy Klobuchar, who&#8217;s sponsoring the bill. &#8220;The bill language specifically targets people who willfully engage in copyright infringement for commercial advantage or private financial gain,&#8221; explained spokesman Linden Zakula. &#8220;The bill does not criminalize uploading videos to YouTube or streaming videos at home.&#8221; That hasn&#8217;t stopped more than 2,000 people from liking the campaign on Facebook since its launch yesterday, nor mobilizing for the cause on Twitter and Tumblr with messages like &#8220;I don&#8217;t want @JustinBieber to go to jail, help! #freebieber&#8221; Simplistic (and erroneous) reduction of important issues mixed with celebrity namedropping? Apparently, a very potent mix. MORE: Twitter Turns Off Verified Accounts&#8217; Right to DM Privacy? Graeme McMillan is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @Graemem or on Facebook at Facebook/Graeme.McMillan. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=100484&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple&#8217;s New Steve Jobs Tribute Site Goes Live</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/19/apples-new-steve-jobs-tribute-site-goes-live/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Steve Jobs tributes keep coming, from temporary Apple Store closings to Jobs&#8217; official biography, due out next Monday. Add Apple&#8217;s new, presumably long-term and maybe even permanent Steve Jobs tribute page to the list. No, I don&#8217;t mean the main page, with its black and white picture depicting a healthier Jobs in the thinker&#8217;s pose. Apple just created a subsidiary site dubbed &#8220;Remembering Steve,&#8221; and they&#8217;ve filled it with thoughts about the late Apple inventor and entrepreneur from people around the planet. (MORE: &#8216;Steve Jobs&#8217; Biography Coming October 24, Paints &#8216;Candid&#8217;, &#8216;Brutal&#8217; Picture) &#8220;Over a million people from all over the world have shared their memories, thoughts, and feelings about Steve,&#8221; reads a note on the visually austere site. &#8220;One thing they all have in common — from personal friends to colleagues to owners of Apple products — is how they’ve been touched by his passion and creativity.&#8221; You&#8217;ll have to read fast, because the notes pulse in like a heartbeat and shift down the page every 10 seconds, disappearing back into the digital ether below. Here are three I grabbed at random: &#8220;He was a unique innovator and inspired so many,&#8221; reads one. &#8220;He had a special style and persona. He cannot be replaced. I&#8217;m saddened today, and even though I never met him, I will be reminded of him continuously. I will miss him dearly.&#8221; &#8220;I guess a higher power wanted the iPhone as well,&#8221; quips another. &#8220;You are truly an inspiration to all. &#8220;I&#8217;m not going to lie. I&#8217;m a PC user and have never really been a fan of Macs,&#8221; reads a third. &#8220;But I can&#8217;t deny what a revolutionary Steve Jobs was. The man changed what is expected of our computers, tablets, cell phones, music players, etc.&#8221; The messages are clearly curated—I&#8217;ve yet to see anything critical or profane pop up. If you want to share your own memory or note about Jobs, you&#8217;ll want to drop it in email to rememberingsteve@apple.com. LIST: The 10 Most Memorable Apple Commercials Matt Peckham is a reporter at TIME. Find him<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=100276&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Gaming &amp; Culture</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://techland.time.com/category/apps-web/gaming-%c2%a0culture/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>YouTube to Launch 25 New Professionally-Created Content Channels?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/17/youtube-to-launch-25-new-professionally-created-content-channels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not content going head-to-head with Netflix and iTunes by offering streaming video-on-demand movie rentals, YouTube is rumored to be close to announcing a $150-million plan to unveil multiple new channels of all-original content in the hopes of becoming a rival to major television networks The project, which according to Deadline New York may be officially announced by the end of this month, is expected to &#8220;redefine&#8221; YouTube as a destination for professionally-produced content from some of television&#8217;s most respected producers in an attempt to lure more advertisers to the site. (MORE: Decision 2012 Goes Viral: YouTube Launches Politics Channel) Rumors place the number of channels around 25, with the Hollywood Reporter naming companies like Warner Bros., BermanBraun and FremantleMedia as potential partners for the project. Other names linked include, oddly enough, skateboarder Tony Hawk, suggesting that this project may have some overlap with the idea of YouTube&#8217;s &#8220;celebrity channels&#8221; that was floated at the start of the year (In fact, the rumored budget-per-channel for both projects is the same: $5 million). The new channels are expected to go live at the start of 2012. MORE: Web 2.0 is Dead &#8211; Is Celebrity The Future of The Internet? Graeme McMillan is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @Graemem or on Facebook at Facebook/Graeme.McMillan. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=99982&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Decision 2012 Goes Viral: YouTube Launches Politics Channel</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/07/decision-2012-goes-viral-youtube-launches-politics-channel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If your dream for the next year is to spend as much of it as possible watching political campaign ads and the parodies thereof, then YouTube has just made your life a lot easier (Also, you might want to think up a more fulfilling dream). The site launched YouTube Politics yesterday, a new channel dedicated to &#8220;the latest campaign ads, parodies, gotchas, and speeches, offering you a 360-view of the election.&#8221; According to YouTube news and politics manager Ramya Raghavan, the site &#8220;wanted to paint a really holistic view for what politics looks like on YouTube&#8230; We’re seeing that citizens have an enormous appetite for getting political information online.&#8221; (MORE: #NoEscapeFrom2012: Twitter to Start Selling Political Advertising) This is just the latest move by parent company Google to become involved in next year&#8217;s Presidential election; the company already co-hosted the Fox News Republican Debate in September. In 2007, YouTube itself partnered with CNN for a debate, but no similar event has been announced as yet for next year&#8217;s election. MORE: Right (Wing) Brain-Eating: &#8216;Tea Party Zombies&#8217; Turns Politicans, Pundits into Walking Dead Graeme McMillan is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @Graemem or on Facebook at Facebook/Graeme.McMillan. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=99346&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Target Launches Missoni Italian Fashion Line, Website Goes Boom</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/14/target-launches-italian-fashion-line-website-goes-boom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Maybe we should have gone with the line from Wet Seal instead.&#8221; Alright, so that&#8217;s not really what Target said after its website crashed and burned yesterday as fashion-crazed shoppers swarmed the company&#8217;s servers and wrestled Target.com to its knees, but it might be close. What it actually said, in a message to visitors after the site imploded: &#8220;Woof! We are suddenly extremely popular. There is no need to refresh your browser. Please stay here and we&#8217;ll get you in as soon as we can! Thank you and our apologies for the inconvenience.&#8221; (MORE: Amazon Styles Up with New Fashion Site) The chain store&#8217;s trying to market itself as hip to upscale fashion items from luxury clothing designer Missoni, but with a discount spin. Target managed to secure a limited-edition line of clothing from the Italian designer. The line debuted Tuesday. And then—nothing. The New York Times says Target.com was missing in action for much of yesterday, overwhelmed by frantic shoppers, and that the company&#8217;s claiming demand for items outpaced your average Black Friday, typically the year&#8217;s biggest get-out-and-shop event. Missoni&#8217;s apparently a big deal, speaking as someone who&#8217;s fashion unconscious. Also: ridiculously expensive. Search on &#8216;Missoni&#8217; and you might conjure a Banded V-Neck Dress selling for just under $1,500 or a Beaded Evening Dress for $2,345. But the Target line has items for as little as $10 (a Missoni for Target Purple Thong) and Girls&#8217; Brown Leggings for $25. &#8220;The excitement for this limited-time designer collection is unprecedented,&#8221; said Target spokesperson Morgan O’Murray. Target public relations: masters of the obvious! The web site was back Tuesday night around 11:00 p.m. Eastern time, though while I was poking around for this story, it was running at just two speeds: &#8220;slow&#8221; and &#8220;hung.&#8221; MORE: eBay Enters Fashion Market With $200 Million Purchase of German Brand Matt Peckham is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @mattpeckham or on Facebook. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=96984&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The .XXX Porn Domains Have Landed</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/07/the-xxx-porn-domains-have-landed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello Wednesday and welcome to a new Internet, where domain names with a proper top-level dot-XXX suffix will take you by the hand and lead you, well, somewhere they used to lead you with dot-nets and coms. No, I don&#8217;t mean a bunch of websites dedicated to the &#8220;kiss&#8221; half of &#8220;hugs and kisses,&#8221; or that lionize a winning game of Tic-Tac-Toe. We&#8217;re talking adult entertainment, which—whatever your position on the matter—is one of the biggest, fastest growing online industries. Yep, .XXX domains are now live, though the Washington Times reports some online porn companies aren&#8217;t exactly up and dancing. In fact a few are balking because they&#8217;ve done well enough with their existing domains and don&#8217;t want to fork over additional cash to protect the .XXX equivalent. What&#8217;s more, the company handling .XXX registrations, ICM Registry LLC, is apparently targeting non-porn entities (say, Hollywood celebrities or name-brand companies) to pay a one-time fee in the hundreds of dollars or risk their names and brands showing up as .XXX sites. You know, like GeorgeClooney.xxx, or if we&#8217;re talking companies, hypotheticals like Apple.xxx, YMCA.xxx, or Google.xxx. (MORE: Coming Soon: A Search Engine Just for .XXX Domains) The purpose of .XXX? To make it easier to avoid adult-themed sites&#8230;or find them (take your pick). Porn&#8217;s big business, by anyone&#8217;s measure. According to TechCrunch, in 2006, U.S. porn sites generated $2.84 billion in revenue (thank you, mostly men—72% were then listed as porn viewers). More recent statistics put the number of pornographic websites at 4.2 million (about 12% of total, a substantial slice), Internet porn sales at nearly $5 billion, peg porn-related materials to a full 25% of daily search engine requests, claim 42.7% of Internet users view porn, and note that it&#8217;s not just guys crawling the web&#8217;s steamier side these days—one in three visitors to adult websites is female. If you&#8217;re a brand or IP holder, you&#8217;ve got 50 days to pull out your wallet and submit an application, followed by a 17-day period in which would-be adult sites will have a shot<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=96265&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Gaming &amp; Culture</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://techland.time.com/category/apps-web/gaming-%c2%a0culture/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>DirecTV Looking to Buy Hulu?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/08/05/directv-looking-to-buy-hulu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 17:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hulu has one more suitor in its upcoming selloff&#8230; but this one is already playing hard-to-get. On an earnings call yesterday, DirecTV CEO Mike White admitted that the satellite TV company was joining Apple, Google and many other potential buyers in looking through Hulu&#8217;s financial details to see whether a sale would make sense, but almost immediately started to backtrack talking about the fact that DirecTV already has its own video distribution service and that Hulu &#8220;isn&#8217;t necessary&#8221; to fulfill DirecTV&#8217;s vision of how to better serve customers. (MORE: Google and Microsoft Reportedly Both Kicking Hulu&#8217;s Tires) Whether this is simply an awkward version of playing things cool or some genuine attempt to put DirecTV&#8217;s interest in some kind of perspective is uncertain, but I can&#8217;t help but wonder what would happen if what is essentially a TV distribution company were to buy what is essentially a TV distribution company. Would rivals like Comcast, Time Warner Cable, et al, complain to anti-trust bodies? Would they have a case? [via GigaOM] MORE: Comcast Sues DirecTV over False NFL Advertising Graeme McMillan is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @Graemem or on Facebook at Facebook/Graeme.McMillan. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=92977&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Judge Rules Against Remotely Watching DVDs over the Internet</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/08/03/judge-rules-against-remotely-watching-dvds-over-the-internet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Streaming movies online is public performance, no matter how you do it. At least, that seems to be the takeaway in the preliminary injunction granted against Zediva by a federal judge presiding over the Motion Picture Association of America&#8217;s current suit against the video-on-demand provider. (MORE: MPAA Asks Judge to Shut Down Movie Streaming Service) Zediva is defending itself from a claim that it illegally streams movies online without the appropriate license by explaining that its business model means that each user is actually renting a physical DVD and watching that one DVD&#8217;s playback remotely, meaning that the company technically only offers private exhibition—although, admittedly, one that relies on online streaming as a delivery system. Per Zediva&#8217;s FAQ page: &#8220;When you rent a movie on Zediva, you are renting both a DVD and DVD Player in our data center. During the period of the rental, the DVD and the DVD Player can only be used by you.&#8221; Why not just offer straightforward streaming like Netflix? Because enabling remote access to physical DVDs lets Zediva offer new titles earlier than other streaming services—basically the same day they&#8217;re available on DVD. &#8220;Instead of getting explicit licenses from Hollywood studios to offer movie streaming to the public, the company believes it is merely &#8216;renting&#8217; DVDs for private exhibition,&#8221; notes the Hollywood Reporter. As it turns out, California federal judge John F. Walter isn&#8217;t buying that explanation. Citing existing law and reports from the House of Representatives about the public nature of the internet, Walter issued the injunction by explaining, &#8220;Defendants are violating Plaintiffs&#8217; exclusive right to publicly perform their Copyrighted Works by transmitting those Copyrighted Works to the public over the internet, without a license or Plaintiffs&#8217; permission, through the use of Defendants&#8217; Zediva service.&#8221; Both parties now have a week to agree on an injunction that fulfills the judge&#8217;s order to their mutual satisfaction. I wouldn&#8217;t be too surprised if Zediva decides to settle at some point during this week, despite a statement saying that the company &#8220;will keep fighting for consumers&#8217;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=92535&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cute Animals &gt; Humans: Finally, We Have (Viral Video) Proof</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/29/cute-animals-humans-finally-we-have-viral-video-proof/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally, it&#8217;s been officially proven: Animals doing human things are better than humans pretending to be animals doing human things. To promote its travel search site, Hipmunk has released the viral video to end all viral videos, &#8220;Internet Memes Better with Cute Animals,&#8221; in which humans re-enact some (in)famous YouTube clips to prove said theory. The result? People are, indeed, proven to be inferior to animals, and Hipmunk has realized how to use the internet&#8217;s obsession with itself to come up with some fine promotion. And the best part? There are so many more videos that they can parody, if this particular meme catches on. Win win win&#8230; Well, as long as enough people also use the search engine that&#8217;s attached, of course. MORE: Watch: Microsoft Spoofs Google With The Gmail Man Graeme McMillan is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @Graemem or on Facebook at Facebook/Graeme.McMillan. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=92244&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Robot Apocalypse News of the Week: Machines That &#8216;Dream&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/29/robot-apocalypse-news-of-the-week-machines-that-dream/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gayomali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of the robots we&#8217;re vaguely familiar with are good at menial tasks, like welding car parts or assembling microchips. But that isn&#8217;t to say that what they do isn&#8217;t difficult: Those tasks require ultra-precise data to be programmed beforehand. And though there are practical applications for spatially aware technology&#8211;like the Roomba&#8211;the algorithmic decision-making process is still eons away from the actual human thought process. (VIDEO: The Creepiest Robotic Singing Mouth of All Time) But an article from this month&#8217;s issue of National Geographic takes a look at some of the new robot technologies that may be making their way into everyday life in the near-future. In it, a new Segway-wheeled humanoid bot dubbed &#8220;HERB&#8221; is engaging in processes a bit more akin to human consciousness: HERB can visualize and analyze his shifting surroundings before acting on them. &#8220;I call it dreaming,&#8221; says HERB&#8217;s builder, Siddhartha Srinivasa. &#8220;It helps people intuitively understand that the robot is actually visualizing itself doing something.&#8221; It&#8217;s not dreaming in the sleeping sense, per se, but like humans it allows the robot to adapt to a dynamic environment with a number of factors constantly changing it (like other humans). It allows HERB to envision the future similarly to the way we do. Some might even call it a primitive form of imagining. Here&#8217;s a key passage: In the lab one of Srinivasa&#8217;s students taps a button, issuing a command to pick up a juice box sitting on a nearby table. HERB&#8217;s laser spins, creating a 3-D grid mapping the location of nearby people and objects, and the camera locks on a likely candidate for the target juice box. The robot slowly reaches over and takes hold of the box, keeping it upright. On command, he gently puts it down. To the uninitiated, the accomplishment might seem underwhelming. &#8220;When I showed it to my mom,&#8221; Srinivasa says, &#8220;she couldn&#8217;t understand why HERB has to think so hard to pick up a cup.&#8221; The rest of the piece is equally fascinating, but I think one of the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=92209&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple Yanks iTunes from &#8216;Christian Values Network&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/27/apple-yanks-itunes-from-christian-values-network/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=91945</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Apple&#8217;s known for taking principled stands on all sorts of issues, and now it&#8217;s taken another by pulling iTunes from the &#8220;Christian Values Network.&#8221; CVN, which operates shopping portal CVG.org, raises money for various religious groups through product purchases at over 600 participating companies (including Apple). Think Target, Avon, Netflix, Microsoft, Macy&#8217;s, etc. But according to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), some of the religious groups are &#8220;active hate groups&#8221; engaged in &#8220;anti-gay, anti-women&#8221; activities. [UPDATE: An earlier version of this story listed Focus on the Family as on the SPLC's list, when in fact this isn't the case. Techland regrets and apologizes for the error.] (PHOTOS: New Yorkers Celebrate the Legalization of Gay Marriage) A few of the groups are certainly controversial. For instance, the founder of Abiding Truth Ministries, Scott Lively, wrote a book titled &#8220;The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi Party,&#8221; which attempts to link homosexuality with extreme militarism in the Nazi party, and the Family Research Council actively lobbies against LGBT rights and advocates a one-year waiting period before a married couple with children can legally divorce (excepting domestic abuse). Their inclusion in CVN&#8217;s network prompted student (and apparent Apple enthusiast) Ben Crowther to launch a campaign through Change.org, petitioning CVN business participants to &#8220;Stop Supporting Anti-Gay Hate Groups.&#8221; The petition asks CVN to &#8220;remove the five listed hate groups from their website,&#8221; claiming they&#8217;re &#8220;discriminatory and encourage violence against LGBT people, all while promoting their bigoted missions in the name of religion.&#8221; Change.org notes that &#8220;many legitimate religious groups&#8230;can earn money from your purchases,&#8221; but singles out the five groups listed by the SPLC as reason enough for businesses to terminate their relationship with the group. “From the beginning, I knew that once this issue was brought to Apple&#8217;s attention, they would not want to be a part of CVN because it funds anti-gay hate groups like Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council,&#8221; said Crowther in a statement. &#8220;Apple is a fair-minded business. I&#8217;m glad this petition helped make Apple aware of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=91945&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Does It Take to Get Kicked out of an Apple Store?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/26/what-does-it-take-to-get-kicked-out-of-an-apple-store/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of all the questions you might conjure for Apple&#8217;s coolheaded retail store employees, here&#8217;s one you (and they) probably haven&#8217;t considered: What does it take to get booted from an Apple Store? Walking in with a dog? Ordering a pizza and having it delivered to the second floor? Taking your (very tall) wife on a &#8220;romantic&#8221; date? Showing up dressed as Anakin Skywalker (you know, as he looked in the original trilogy) and asking someone to repair your broken iPhone? And what about strolling in with a goat (yep, a live goat)? Can you bring that into an Apple Store? Comedian Mark Malkoff gives each of those scenarios a try to get to the bottom of these all-important consumer mysteries. Okay, we all know what it&#8217;d really take, and yep, I&#8217;d probably boot you for shopping in nothing but a tiger-striped speedo, too. (via Cult of Mac) MORE: Fake Apple Stores Investigated, Two Ordered to Shut Down Matt Peckham is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @mattpeckham or on Facebook. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=91849&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Win More at Rock-Paper-Scissors (According to Science)</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/21/how-to-win-more-at-rock-paper-scissors-according-to-science/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gayomali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a few time-honored methods for settling disputes: Good ol&#8217; fashion fisticuffs are a fairly noble method, but you get all hurt and bruisy and that&#8217;s usually not a wise career move. Then there&#8217;s always coin flipping, but that usually requires the presence of a coin, which can be annoying to carry around. And aside from arm wrestling, thumb wrestling, pulling straws, picking numbers, six-sided dice, twelve-sided dice, smartphone apps, foot races, video games, or—you know—talking it out, the only real way to settle a modern day quarrel is to play a respectable game of rock-paper-scissors. In theory, if you&#8217;re better at rock-paper-scissors than anyone else, you get your way more. And getting your way is usually a good thing. So, if you&#8217;re interested in getting your way more, a study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B might be of use to you. They tested 45 subjects—some blindfolded, some not—and found that people subconsciously copy the movements of their opponents. Using financial incentives that were given out when a player either won a game or came to a draw, administrators found that when non-blindfolded players played blindfolded players, the seeing folks were achieving draws at a much, much higher rate, even if it was in their interest not to. (MORE: Sorry, Guys: Girls Sweep First Ever Google Science Fair) Apparently, this is something embedded in our scientific makeup. &#8220;From the moment we&#8217;re born, we are frequently exposed to situations where performing an action accurately predicts seeing the same action, or vice versa. Parents seemingly can&#8217;t help but imitate the facial expressions of their newborns— smiling, sticking their tongues out and so on,&#8221; says Richard Cook, the lead author of the paper from the UCL Department of Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Science. &#8220;This experience causes the impulse to imitate to become so ingrained it is often subconscious, for example when one person starts tapping their foot in a waiting room it is not uncommon for the whole room to start tapping their feet without thinking.&#8221; It&#8217;s called automatic<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=91125&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anonymous Incurs Google+ Ban, Retaliates by Launching Own Social Network</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/18/anonymous-incurs-google-ban-retaliates-by-launching-own-social-network/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you can&#8217;t join &#8216;em, try and beat &#8216;em—that&#8217;s the gist of the reaction by notorious hacker group Anonymous to several of its members&#8217; accounts feeling the banhammer from Google&#8217;s new social network site, Google+. But instead of hacking Google+ in retaliation for the bans, Anonymous says it&#8217;s launching its own social networking site, dubbed &#8220;AnonPlus.&#8221; &#8220;Expect us,&#8221; reads a caption under a lineup of headless suits supporting a Guy Fawkes mask (yep, the site&#8217;s already pseudo-live). (LIST: The Biggest Pranks in Geek History) &#8220;Welcome to AnonPlus. This will be your future. This will be our future. Today, we welcome you to begin anew…to watch this glorious incipience happen – one upon which you will never turn your back on,&#8221; reads the site&#8217;s mandate. Seditious yes, though eloquent, perhaps not. &#8220;Welcome to the Revolution – a new social network where these is no fear of censorship…of blackout…nor of holding back,&#8221; continues the statement. &#8220;Life is what you make it – and we are making it. As you step through into the coming weeks, months, and years with us…they will know that we&#8217;ve arrived. There will be no more oppression. There will be no more tyranny. We are the people and we are Anonymous. We have arrived.&#8221; Anonymous—specifically &#8216;youranonnews&#8217;—was banned from Google+ last week for harboring content that &#8220;violated&#8221; Google&#8217;s Community Standards (Google also yanked their Gmail account). The group says that at the time, it didn&#8217;t realize it was just one of several Anonymous accounts shown the door. &#8220;This is the sad fact of what happens across the internet when you walk to a different beat of the drum,&#8221; opined the group on a subsidiary site. &#8220;We’ve all heard the stories of activists being banned from FaceBook, Twitter, YouTube, and governments blocking their people from these sites as well through organized black outs.&#8221; &#8220;That day has came to an end. Not only did a few people organized [sic] an Operation [against] Google+, but we have started to build our own Social Network&#8230; The sheep era is over.  The interwebz are no longer your prison.&#8221; Hacker groups Anonymous and LulzSec have been<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=90491&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Just How Crazy Is the World&#8217;s Steepest Rollercoaster?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/12/just-how-crazy-is-the-worlds-steepest-rollercoaster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine hurtling downward at nerve-fraying speeds while shooting slightly backwards before curving into a perfect vertical drop and out again, sort of like surfing the inside bottom-half of the letter &#8216;s&#8217;. That&#8217;s how the world&#8217;s steepest rollercoaster brings it, and if you were silly enough to scarf down a plate of nachos and maybe a big gulp before riding it, you&#8217;d best bring something to. (PHOTOS: A Visual History of the Jet Pack) It&#8217;s called the Takabisha (that&#8217;s Japanese for &#8220;domineering,&#8221; because it is) and you&#8217;ll find it within the Fuji-Q Highland Amusement Park at the foot of Mount Fuji in the Yamanashi Prefecture of Japan. It sports over 3,281 feet of track (1,000m+) and seven twists, takes around 112 seconds to complete, operates using car-based motors and gravity and costs about $12.50 to ride (which means it&#8217;ll take about 3 million tickets to pay back the $37 million spent building the thing). The coaster&#8217;s been teased for months, but it finally opens to the public this coming Saturday, July 16th. Scan this video for a crazy first-person-cam look. Riding the thing, you&#8217;re thrust from a long, dark tunnel (hello &#8220;birth canal&#8221; symbolism) and carried through a few curves and upside-down loops, before pulling into a kind of halfway depot, where—hello, mental breather? But no, the point&#8217;s to ratchet up your agitation meter (it did mine, just watching) by letting you ponder what&#8217;s next as the cars hitch onto a chain-belt that pulls you (slowly) to the top of the drop at a virtually vertical angle. Just looking at the tower conjures the impression of someone loading a rocket onto a launch pad, only one designed to abruptly flip around and tear earthward instead of blasting off. The next part&#8217;s a total tease, too. Notice in the video (at about 1:51) how the car suddenly halts at the top of the drop, just when you&#8217;d expect it to rocket ahead, compelled by gravity. But nope, these guys understand how suspense augments everything: The car inches forward for a full 10 seconds, lingering<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=89851&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>House Pitching Death of Hubble Space Telescope Successor</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/08/house-pitching-death-of-hubble-space-telescope-successor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 18:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an attempt to further tighten the national belt, the U.S. House moved this week to cut the James Webb Space Telescope from the budget, effectively threatening NASA&#8217;s follow-up to the Hubble, and the future of our eyes-in-space program. There&#8217;s something poetic (poetically dismaying, that is) about the timing, too: Space shuttle Atlantis launched just this morning—the last launch of a space shuttle probably ever—signaling the demise of NASA&#8217;s over 30-year-old shuttle program. All it took was a voice vote by a House appropriations subcommittee to strip funding for the project. Trouble is, the program was already $1.5 billion and change over budget. It&#8217;s behind schedule, too. The Webb Telescope should&#8217;ve launched in 2014, but it&#8217;s currently delayed until 2018. (PHOTOS: 50 Space Race Highs and Lows) What&#8217;s the big deal about yanking a space telescope? For starters, the Webb Telescope&#8217;s actually more than your average collection of curved mirrors and lenses. In fact it&#8217;s a full-blown infrared space observatory. Its mission: to scan for light from the very first stars, understand galaxy formation and evolution and study the origins of life in terms of planetary systems. It&#8217;s also the only thing scheduled to follow the Hubble&#8217;s mission, which ends (and apparently can&#8217;t be extended) sometime in 2014. So should we support the funding cull or protest it? If you&#8217;re coming at it politically, positions tend to fall along current slash-or-save lines (Democrats want to save it, Republicans want to quash it). But forget the politics of spend-or-save for a moment. Look at it through Wired&#8216;s pro-JWST eyes, and you&#8217;ll hear this sort of argument: &#8230;Hubble has cost the U.S. a substantial amount of money, but its contributions to science have been of incalculable worth&#8230; And JWST will be a much, much better telescope than Hubble, and not just because it has the benefit of decades-better technology. Not only will it be in a much higher orbit than Hubble, but it will be substantially larger and thus able to collect considerably more detailed and more distant observations. Scientists have some educated guesses as to what<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=89535&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Final Space Shuttle Launch Threatened by Bad Weather</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/06/final-space-shuttle-launch-threatened-by-bad-weather/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Could the final launch of a space shuttle be derailed by rain and thunderstorms? It&#8217;s looking like it. We&#8217;re heading into the space shuttle program&#8217;s final lap, the last NASA-based launch of a shuttle in history via the Kennedy Space Center this Friday, so it&#8217;s somehow poetic that the weather—a frequent cause of prior shuttle launch delays—is weighing in, too, prompting concerns about &#8220;showers and thunderstorms, flight through precipitation, and cumulus clouds.&#8221; (PHOTOS: Top 10 NASA Flubs) The verdict: according to forecasters, there&#8217;s a 70% chance we&#8217;ll see shuttle Atlantis&#8216;s Friday launch delayed by rain or thunderstorms (or, as NASA optimistically tweets, there&#8217;s a 30% chance of favorable weather for Friday&#8217;s 11:26 a.m. ET liftoff). That&#8217;s probably just what the expected 750,000 to one million anticipated visitors don&#8217;t want to hear, though if their travel plans include the option to stick around for an extra day or two, the weather reportedly improves a tick over the weekend. Speaking of crowds, Florida Today notes spectators watching the launch near ground zero at the Kennedy Space Center are at &#8220;six times greater risk from a launch accident&#8221; than others watching from nearby offsite areas. We&#8217;re not talking a new risk here, but one most probably weren&#8217;t aware of. Florida Today got its mitts on Air Force docs via the Freedom of Information Act and found that NASA shuttle launches are &#8220;100 times more dangerous to launch-site spectators than other U.S. rockets,&#8221; though it adds &#8220;the odds of spectators at KSC being injured or killed in a launch catastrophe are extremely remote.&#8221; The good news: NASA appears to be rolling full steam ahead despite adverse weather predictions. &#8220;The shuttle Mission Management Team voted unanimously to proceed toward Atlantis’ planned liftoff at 11:26a ET Friday,&#8221; tweeted NASA Wednesday morning. The launch countdown kicked off yesterday at 1 p.m. ET and has so far proceeded according to plan. Atlantis&#8216;s Friday launch signals the end of NASA&#8217;s shuttle program after three decades and over 100 missions (Atlantis will check off the program&#8217;s 135th). The final 12-day mission, carried out by four astronauts,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=89182&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Doesn&#8217;t Amazon Want to Disclose Its Carbon Footprint?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/05/why-doesnt-amazon-want-us-to-know-about-its-carbon-footprint/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just how environmentally-friendly is Amazon.com? Sure, the company has a page dedicated to how it&#8217;s &#8220;constantly looking for ways to further reduce [its] environmental impact,&#8221; boasting that &#8220;online shopping is inherently more environmentally friendly than traditional retailing&#8221; and linking to a study to back that up. It talks about its Kaizen program &#8220;named for the Japanese term meaning &#8216;change for the better&#8217;,&#8221; as the website helpfully explains. The program allows employees to suggest more ways in which the company can be environmentally conscious. (MORE: Amazon Launches &#8216;AmazonLocal&#8217; for (Yet More) Daily Deals) But none of that explains why Amazon asked shareholders to reject a proposal to participate in a study that would reveal its carbon footprint to the world. Calvert Investments filed a shareholder proposal earlier this year to urge Amazon shareholders to vote yes to joining almost 5,000 other companies taking part in its annual Carbon Disclosure Project questionnaire, which would involve Amazon having to release firm data relating to the carbon footprint of its data centers, Kindle devices, and business risks related to climate change. This would seem to not be a big deal to the Kaizen-friendly company&#8230; except that Amazon urged shareholders to reject the proposal, and on June 7th, the shareholders did as they were told, ensuring that the data remains secret. But why? According to environmental journalist Leon Kaye, the answer lies in the way Amazon operates: &#8220;Amazon’s attitude towards carbon disclosure clearly stems from its business model. Most books the company ships are not technically part of its inventory; it does not manufacture the Kindle; unlike companies such as Walmart, it does not have its own trucking fleet; the millions of items for sale on Amazon are not on its balance sheet; and it leases, not owns, most of the space—30 million square feet in total—necessary for its operations. Hence any concern over climate change is the prerogative of its suppliers and vendors.&#8221; The truth may be that, while the green credentials of the portions of its business over which it has ultimate control<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=88944&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter Turns Off Verified Accounts&#8217; Right to DM Privacy?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/04/twitter-turns-off-verified-accounts-right-to-dm-privacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 19:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever wanted to tell Lady Gaga or Justin Bieber just how much you love them, but lacked the ability to do so in private? Well, a new move by Twitter that could be described as &#8220;almost as head-scratchingly bizarre as sending you emails everytime someone mentions you&#8221; will change that &#8211; until the celebrities of the world demand it changes back, of course. Twitter has apparently dropped the mutual follow requirement for sending Direct Messages to &#8220;Verified&#8221; accounts on the micro-blogging service. The move has not been officially announced, but was discovered by users on Sunday; now, it appears that all you need to do to be able to send celebrities and popular brands private messages is follow their particular account. This decision will almost definitely prove to be controversial, bombarding accounts with all manner of unwanted messages requiring clean-up and monitoring. Even though there is an option to reset the feature to the traditional dual-follow DM system, I&#8217;ll be very surprised if this option doesn&#8217;t quickly disappear as quietly as it debuted. Until then: Why not take the opportunity to tell some celebrities just how much they mean to you? Who knows, they may even see the message. &#8216;Obama Dead&#8217; Hoax Sweeps Twitter After Fox News Hack Why Is The FTC Investigating Twitter&#8217;s Business Practices?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=88948&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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