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"I shouldn't have to offer anything. They're not doing me a favor by paying for things that they have already approved for the government to do. That's part of their basic function of government; that's not doing me a favor. That's doing what the American people sent them here to do, carrying out their responsibilities."

Transcript And Audio: NPR Interview With President Obama
NPR’s Steve Inskeep talks to the president about the current fiscal battles in Congress.

Taking some careful notes. You know, for science. "Penny Arcade – Sanderfuge" http://feedly.com/k/18j2M7m

Penny Arcade – Sanderfuge
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Note to self. Buy a bunch of Bertolli. Those are some great ads.

Gay Pasta War heats up
After Barilla chairman Guido Barilla announced in a radio interview that “he would never do (a commercial) with a homosexual family,” his competitor Bertolli started posting delightfully saucy images to promote itself as a ga…

"Indie bookstores on the rise" http://feedly.com/k/172pNvF

Indie bookstores on the rise
The number of members of the American Booksellers’ Association is slowly creeping up, a welcome sign after a steep decline from 5500 members in 1995 to 2191 in 2002.

The worst part is it's the good ones that run, and the bad ones that hang around.

From Google: "Why are we doing this? Lots of our users go to the New Tab Page, navigate to a search engine, and then type in the search. We wanted to take a step out of the process."

What idiocy. Someone should tell them (Google and those users) about the omnibar.

Anyway, I figured out how to get rid of the Google Doodle garbage.

1. Go to chrome://flags

2. Find:
Enable Instant Extended API Mac, Windows, Chrome OS
Enables the Instant Extended API which provides a deeper integration with your default search provider, including a renovated New Tab Page, extracting search query terms in the omnibox, a spruced-up omnibox dropdown and Instant previews of search results as you type in the omnibox.

3. Set it to 'Disabled'.

You'll sacrifice the other minor features (stuff I know I'll never miss) that came in alongside the updated Recently Viewed page, but in my opinion it's a small price to pay to not be punished because some blinkered Chrome users can't figure out how to use the frigging omnibar.

Hufflepuff. There you go.