Half.com listings will be added to eBay's regular listings. (eBay gets 20% and about half of the shipping on those items)

Core fees are going up - listing fees to more than DOUBLE and the commission on store sells increases from 8% to 10%.

Many sellers are saying that they will close their stores. Others are saying that their prices will have to increase.

eBay store fees increase drastically - Prices to go UP

I am loving the children's classics. There are a ton of great books here - this is all part of that Gutenberg project - you might have heard of it.

In any event, it is free to the public through August. I think I've already filled my laptop's harddrive up. lol

Free Downloads for 2 months - Auidobooks, Movies, and E-Books

U.S. government consultant used software programs found on the Internet to break into the FBI's computer system, where he gained access to the passwords of 38,000 employees, including that of FBI Director Robert Mueller, the Washington Post reports.

Again with the hacking into govt. computers. Can't they get some spyware or something?

Hacker Invades FBI Computers, Gains Access To Passwords Of 38,000 Employees, Including Director - CBS News

"In this way, the game resembles a send-up of Christian-themed video games by "The Simpsons." "Billy Graham's Bible Blaster," is a first-person shooter game in which you fire Bibles at club-carrying heathens to convert them into card-carrying Republicans. (Hint: after you finish reading this blog piece - and eating all your vegetables -- visit the Simpson's official web site and open file drawer F-H, then click on the character of Evangelical Christian kid Rod Flanders to play the game.)"

This just might be hilarious.

Do you want to kill all the Christians, or all the Infidels? New video game...

"Instructions: Move your mouse off of the image, then stare at the dot in the middle for 30 seconds, after that move your mouse over the image. The picture will appear to be in color until you move your eyes! Don't worry, nothing is going to pop out and scare you! This is one of the best illusions we have ever seen."

Very neat illusion!

"http://www.nbc4.tv/news/9396681/detail.html
Slideshow and video at the site

Peacock Romances English Gas Pump
One-Sided Affair Goes On For Years

POSTED: 6:01 am PDT June 20, 2006
UPDATED: 6:07 am PDT June 20, 2006

BRIERLEY, England -- A confused peacock has ruffled feathers in an English village by falling in love with a gas pump.

The peacock, called "Mr. P.," spends all day at the local gas station in Brierley, strutting his stuff in an elaborate mating ritual.

Locals said the one-sided love affair has been going on for several years.

Every morning during the spring mating season, Mr. P. leaves his home and walks down a track toward the garage."

Confused Peacock in love with a Gas Pump

Funny movie about an Indian call center.

CALL CENTER MOVIE

Colbert's real sin wasn't lese majesty, it was inserting a brief moment of honesty into an event based upon a lie -- one considered socially necessary by the political powers that be, but still, a lie.

Like its upscale sibling, the annual Gridiron Club dinner, the White House Correspondents dinner is a ritual designed, at least implicitly, to showcase the underlying unity of our Beltway elites. It's supposed to demonstrate that no matter how ferocious their battles may appear on the surface, political opponents can still gather in the same room and break bread, with the corporate media acting as the properly neutral host. It's a relic of the good old days of centrism and bipartisan log rolling ("the end of ideology"), visible proof that in the American system, there may be enemies, but there are no mortal enemies. And so last night we had Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame sitting at one table, Karl Rove at another, and no knives were drawn.

Another good analysis, this time by billmon...

The Blog | Billmon: American Nightmarez | The Huffington Post

Survey after survey shows that whether you measure your productivity in facts researched, alien spaceships vaporized or articles written, adding an extra monitor will considerably raise your output - 20 percent to 30 percent, according to a survey by Jon Peddie Research.

Multitaskers find that a 2nd monitor beats Alt-Tab - Technology - International Herald Tribune

Tons of gnosticism tied to kabalism here. This will probably more more circulated by occultists than Christians.

The treatise that Judas was close to Christ and instrumental in doing the will of God is very reflected in The Last Temptation of Christ. It is no wonder that both were 'banned books.'

In Ancient Document, Judas, Minus the Betrayal - New York Times