The New York Nerd

The feeling is mutual McCain, what a POS:

One of the most amazing, most thoughtful, interesting speeches I have ever seen. He gave this speech at the Web 2.0 expo, and it is so incredibly thought provoking. Watch it here.

New York State is calling on large internet retailers such as Amazon.com to collect sales tax even though Amazon does not have a physical presence in the state. This seems really unfair, hopefully it doesn’t go through. Here’s more

Imagine looking over someone’s shoulder right as they hit up this page - http://boortz.com/mp3/archive/countdown.swf

You could freak out the people at your local Starbucks.

GoDaddy pulled down the site without giving any warning, here’s more.

Edit: It looks like they’re up and running already with a new host.

Finally the masses will have a tool of empowerment to keep the po-lice honest, it’s called RateMyCop.com They took the names of police officers which are public information, and set up a nationwide database, where you can add your reviews. Needless to say, law enforcement associations are none too pleased with this. Here’s more

Edit: The site is down, probably due to too much traffic, it’s getting a lot of press today.

Welcome to the party Qtrax! This new site is fully endorsed by all the major lables, and is 100% free. Not only will they carry the studio tracks, but also rare live ones as well. They plan to share the advertising revenue with the lables, in proportion to the popularity of their songs. This is great news for music fans. Here’s more.

This is pretty well done, what happens when google’s parents leave town for the weekend? Watch it here

The seller is going to be in a tiny Polish village, and will send a person of your choosing 3 insane postcards, complete with personal information of your mark, that will leave them baffled, like how on earth does someone in Poland know I have a dog named Dougie? Check it out The bidding is close to $200!

Comedy Central has launched TheDailyShow.com, it contains every episode since Jon Stewart began hosting! Very impressive site, I am thrilled to see all this show saved so conveniently for posterity, it’s an instant classic.