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Disney Trades Sportscaster For Cartoon

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[Television]
Al Michaels was traded from ABC to NBC for a cartoon bunny, four rounds of golf and Olympic highlights... no kidding!

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Cheap Furniture Sparks Riot in London

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When a new IKEA store opened in north London, people came expecting huge savings on cool sofas and other Swedish-inspired furniture. What they got was something more like the fabled Who concert, prompting an ambulance worker to state, "It's a miracle no one was killed."

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Conservative Talk Show Host For Sale on E-Bay

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[Radio]
A conservative talk radio host has put himself up for bid on E-Bay. It seems that he has bills to pay, too, and would like to earn a little of that adminstration money that has been going to other right-wing pundits on the sly.

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Top 10 New Years Resolutions to Protect Your Privacy

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Want to have a safer, more private and secure 2005? The Electronic Privacy Information Center has published a nice top 10 list of things you should/should not do.

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Google upset over "click fraud"

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A top Google official said that growing abuse of the company's lucrative sponsored ad-search model jeopardizes the popular Internet search engine's business.

He's talking about "click fraud". They claim people are clicking on sponsored links illegitimately to cause advertisers to pay more money. We here at BSA have never quite understood how the whole pay-per-click model would ever be "fraud proof" and aside from obvious attempts, how do you determine what is and isn't a legitimate click?

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Exxon funds "think tank" promoting value of global warming

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[Environment]
A London-based "think tank" funded by Exxon is once again clouding the global warming issue, with their scientists claiming the notion is a myth, and furthermore, if it were true, they claim global warming would be a good thing.

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The Christmas Resistance Movement

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[Activists]
You know holiday shopping is offensive and wasteful. You know Christmas "wish lists" and "gift exchanges" degrade the concept of giving. You know Christmas marketing is a scam, benefiting manufacturers, stores, and huge corporations, while driving individuals into debt. You know this annual consumer frenzy wreaks havoc on the environment, filling landfills with useless packaging and discarded gifts.
..thus writes the people behind the Christmas Resistance Movement, who are urging people to boycott the holiday season in protest.

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Buy Nothing Day

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[Hippies]
While yesterday was the official Buy Nothing Day, sponsored by Adbusters. It's not a bad idea for more than a day. Adbusters proposed, "For 24 hours, millions of people around the world did not participate -- in the doomsday economy, the marketing mind-games, and the frantic consumer-binge that's become our culture. We paused. We made a small choice not to shop. We shrank our footprint and gained some calm. Together we said to Exxon, Nike, Coke and the rest: enough is enough. And we helped build this movement to rethink our unsustainable course."

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Delicious Holiday Beverages

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It's true--the Jones Soda Company is releasing its latest holiday dinner beverage pack.

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So you're going to prison...what can I get ya?

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[Humor]
So you're about to be incarcerated? Have no fear. An enterprising user of Amazon.com has put together a snappy list of the perfect gifts for soon-to-be-jailbirds.

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