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From Comedy Central:
Ghost in the Machines (619)
When Bender dies, his disembodied software begins haunting the Planet Express building.
In “Lethal Inspection” it was revealed that Bender does not have a backup unit. In “Ghost In The Machines” Bender dies and turns into a ghost, robot ghost.
There’s Robot Devil, voiced by Dan Castellaneta from Homer Simpson fame.
John Gruber of Daring Fireball points out the importance of giving credit properly.
It is just plain annoying when mainstream news media picked up a story without giving the proper credit to the original writer. It is not that hard to mention the name or the site.
Sadly mainstream news media site are raking in a lot more oney than the average sites and blogs.
Amazon.com sends termination notices to its California Associates program members as Governor Jerry Brown signed the law that requires online retailers to collect sales taxes even though they don’t have any physical presence in California.
Hello,
Unfortunately, Governor Brown has signed into law the bill that we emailed you about earlier today. As a result of this, contracts with all California residents participating in the Amazon Associates Program are terminated effective today, June 29, 2011. Those California residents will no longer receive advertising fees for sales referred to Amazon.com, Endless.com, MYHABIT.COM or SmallParts.com.
Would you still purchase products from Amazon if they were charging Sales Tax?
California Governor Jerry Brown has signed the law that requires online retailers to collect sales taxes even though they don’t have physical presence in California. Amazon announced that they will terminate the Associates program in California.
We do use our Amazon Associates account to feature products on our site (and blog). We are also based in California.
New episode of Futurama is coming this Thursday June 30th, 2011.
Ghost in the Machines (619)
When Bender dies, his disembodied software begins haunting the Planet Express building.
Bender was last seen being mauled by a giant kitten.
TUAW reports that an iPad 2 optimized version of Skype is coming.
That would certainly be awesome. Other chat program such as Yahoo! Messenger and AIM are iPad optimized. The question is when would Microsoft release this app?
Two new Futurama Episodes, “Neutopia” and “Benderama” will air at Comedy Central at 10:00 p.m. tonight.
Neutopia (620)
The crew members encounter a bizarre alien with the power to change their sexual characteristics.Benderama (617)
Bender gains the ability to self-replicate, threatening to overrun Earth with vast swarms of copies of himself.
Be there because these episodes are going to be great, just like Bender, who is great!