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The Federal Trade Commission has fined Google $22.5M for secretly placing tracking cookies on the users of Apple’s Safari browser after telling them that they wouldn’t. It’s the largest tech fine in FTC history. In its complaint, the FTC charged that for several months in 2011 and 2012, Google placed a certain advertising tracking cookie on the computers of Safari …

The president will make his formal nomination acceptance speech on the final day of the convention at Charlotte’s 74,000-seat Bank Of America Stadium. Free tickets for the general public became available yesterday on a first-come first-serve basis. The media has noted that press releases have avoided using the actual name of the venue, merely referring to it as “the stadium” …

The New York Times has the sad news. David Rakoff, a storyteller who could elicit peals of laughter and tears of sympathy with his personal accounts of Christmas Day mountain-climbing, studying Tibetan Buddhism with Steven Seagal, flying on the Concorde and grappling with his frailties, died on Thursday evening. Born in Montreal and raised in Toronto, Mr. Rakoff worked in …

Most of my cab issues have to do with hundreds of people hailing at the same post-event time, so I can’t see this being much help in Manhattan. But it could be great in the outer boroughs. So far, out of more than 13,000 yellow taxis on the road, 1,000 drivers have signed-up for the app and say they’re excited. …

At least there’s no gays this time. Via press release: Dear Joe, In the newest Ragu commercial, a young boy barges into his parents’ bedroom without knocking. We don’t see what he sees, but the cringe on his face and wide eyes tell us enough. This boy catches his parents in the act and walks away in shock. This entire …

Andy Towle unearths the best videos. I didn’t even know ChatRoulette was still a thing. The top commenter on YouTube observes: “I wonder how many times he had to stop filming because a dude was fapping.” A lot, I’d wager. This will make you smile.

Not satisfied with paying Ann Coulter to tell them that they don’t deserve equal rights because they “aren’t black,” GOProud will be hosting vicious homophobe and Breitbart editor Dana Loesch at their Homocon 2012 party during the Republican Convention. Here’s how they are spinning the event: “Homocon 2012 will be the must have ticket for the RNC,” said Jimmy LaSalvia, …

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A local city councilman in Michigan has been asked to resign after the surfacing of 2009 Tea Party videos showed him carrying signs featuring a decapitated President Obama and another one denouncing Rep. Nancy Pelosi for being chummy with “fags and wetbacks.”(Tipped by JMG reader Dale)