How should you respond if a photographer says you're using her photo without permission? Probably not by calling her an asshole. Kathy Shea Mormino, proprietor of the popular backyard chicken site The Chicken Chick, says that's what happened to her when she tried to get one of her photos removed from Survival Magazine's Facebook page and blog.

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Toyota Division is overhauling its U.S. marketing operations and will require 80 employees to reapply for newly created positions or take a voluntary separation from the automaker.As part of the changes, employee roles and responsibilities are being redefined to be more "integrated, flexible and efficient," Toyota, whose U.S.

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The Olympic athletes in this Dos Equis ad may just be actors (the Olympics won't let non-sponsors use legit athletes for advertising), but they still end up being the stars of this ad ostensibly about the Most Interesting Man in the World. It's less an ad for beer and more of an ad for female bobsledding, since the women at the start of this video have gotten a lot of the attention. Gross, creepy attention, especially in the comments of the YouTube clip or whichever website is drooling over them, but attention all the same.

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Last week, the EU announced that it had obtained “an improved commitments proposal” from Google over the three-year antitrust probe into the company’s search business. In other words, the European Commission is finally satisfied with what Google is offering to do now, though it still said it would listen to feedback from complainants before the whole thing is officially finalized

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The fate of the advertising tax deduction on the Senate side now rests with Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), who was officially confirmed by the Senate as chairman of the powerful finance committee on Thursday. Wyden takes over from Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) who was confirmed last week as ambassador to China.

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The fate of the advertising tax deduction on the Senate side now rests with Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), who was officially confirmed by the Senate as chairman of the powerful finance committee on Thursday. Wyden succeeds Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), who was confirmed last week as ambassador to China.

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Winning YouTube is part art, science, web savvy, luck, and let's be honest: deep pockets to buy advertising.

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Experts from the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture claim that a recently discovered mammoth tusk might be the largest found in the entire Seattle area. The tusk, which is also believed to have come from an Ice Age mammoth, was unearthed by several construction workers conducting an excavation in the Lake Union area of Seattle.

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Unless you plan on beginning your House of Cards binge while at work today, it’s probably best you stay off Twitter. You might want to be careful on Facebook, too–depending on how much you trust your friends. Today, and the days to come, could be a spoiler minefield.
As you may know, Netflix dropped the entire second season of the Kevin Spacey-led political drama House of Cards today. It’s all there–ready for you to stream, in its entirety. It’s just sitting there. It wants to watch it. It needs you to watch it. Sorry y’all, I’m just really excited.

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Though the indie market has propped up the survival horror genre in recent years, large publishers have all but abandoned scares in favor of action. Survival horror will get another shot at the mainstream this year, though, through Bethesda’s The Evil Within.
Bethesda today announced that The Evil Within will hit stores in North America on August 26 (August 29 in Europe). The game will be released for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, and PC.

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