Ebay Boycott Cancelled

Or is it? A few weeks ago Ebay announced new listing fees for sellers. In effect, it lowers the upfront cost of listing a product, but increases the overall cost once the item is sold. The idea is based upon sales success, and it has done nothing but enraged sellers. The new fees have enraged [...]

Postage Increase But Don’t Buy Forever Stamp

Good Idea. Just before the stamp price was going up last year, the post office offered stamps priced at the current rate, but usable for first class postage forever. That is, forever or until the government postal system crumbles -unlikely to happen in the near future but possible Of course if you believe the post [...]

Mormon Massacre Mountain Meadows Utah

In 1857, a massacre took place in Mountain Meadow Utah. Only until very recently has it leaked that the massacre was initiated by members of the Mormon Church, and not the Paiute Indians as it was originally reported. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints apologized for the event on September 11, 2007 but [...]

Lane Bryant Victims Funeral Protest

theFutonPoncho gets its share of wacko emails, but this must surely take the cake. The next time you are going to send around an email extolling the evils of Muslims and Islamic jihad, you only need to look out your back door. After all, Timothy McVeigh went to his death believing he was a patriot. [...]

Human Tetris Video

This Tetris presentation is one of the most amazing things on youTube. Swiss Artist Guillaume Reymond directed this video and displayed it at Urbaines Festival in Lausanne Swizerland on November 24, 2007. They created three other video-games –heh, as a part of the “Game Over” project. He also directed visual presentations of Pong, Space Invaders, [...]

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