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The cash back shopping site eBates has ramped up its rebate offers for one day - today, Monday Dec. 14 -- as part of a Cyber Monday II promotion.

Which means you can save even more when you shop online. Remember, these cash back rebates can be combined with coupon codes, sales, and free shipping deals.

Here are some of the percentages you earn back in cash when you shop today on eBates:
Barnes & Noble is 10% -- up from 4%
Cost Plus World Market 6% -- up from 4%
DSW is 12% -- up from 6%
Godiva is 11% -- up from 5%
Nordstrom is 7% -- up from 3%
North Face is 12% -- up from 4%
Old Navy is 10% -- up from 2%
Sephora is 10% -- up from 4%
Snapfish by HP is 18% -- up from 10%
Walmart is 3% -- up from 1%

See the entire rebate list here. Sale ends at 11:59 p.m. today. If you are not already a member, join here. It's free.

Caveats: the downside to eBates.com is that it takes awhile to receive your money -- about 90 days. But that's better than not getting it at all.

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This post is going to be very meta in some regards, and it's going to touch on a few things that deal with the WoW community's very existence. We've written this article in hopes that it might help calm the waters, or at least bring some will on the part of the multitudes of individuals not to jump on the wrong bandwagon.

If you've been paying attention to the role forums and the "Ghostcrawler drama" this past week, you know what I'm talking about. If not, we'll begin with a brief rundown.

The Inherency of the Status Quo

WoW is designed and run by a team of people, with a handful of "leads" in position to direct the design of the game. These people, such as Ghostcrawler, are at the top of the ladder in terms of game development. They are the conglomerate of the entire design and development teams underneath them.

Ghostcrawler, and in the past a few people like him, post on the role forums daily in an effort to establish a dialogue with the community over some, but not all, game design principals.

The community, as expected, is more than happy to talk with Ghostcrawler and the rest of Blizzard.

The Harm of the Vocal Minority

Continue reading How the WoW community is about to push the self-destruct button

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Virtual selves, Blizzard

How the WoW community is about to push the self-destruct button originally appeared on WoW.com on Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Hydrogen, Chevrolet, GM

The reality of hydrogen as an energy carrier for transportation remains a painfully slow development, particularly the distribution of H₂. The total number of publicly-accessible hydrogen stations in the United States remains in the few dozen range. In spite of that, there are small signs of progress, including a new station that opened up this week in the Bronx in New York City.

The station, the third in the area , is operated by Shell Hydrogen and joins facilities at John F. Kennedy airport and in White Plains outside the city. New York is one of the three areas that has been part of GM's Project Driveway field test that has allowed ordinary drivers to accumulate over a million miles in fuel cell powered Chevy Equinoxes over the past two years.


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Filed under: Sci-fi, Anarchy Online, MMO industry, News items

It's a rough cut and it's short, but this YouTube video shows something many people have been eagerly anticipating -- the updated graphics engine for Anarchy Online.

Anarchy Online, Funcom's first foray into the MMO genre, is still running after 8 years of history and evolving storyline. While the game has been running on a free to play model for quite some time now, that's not stopping the team at Funcom from giving it the new graphical polish it deserves. And, trust us when we say this, they need a spit shine on this old engine. Just look at the game's graphics when we recently revisited it for ReSubbed.

The graphics engine update is still without a release date, but hopefully with this video evidence being released the update won't be too far in the future. You want to see it? Well we've embedded it right after the break for you.

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Video of Anarchy Online's new engine uncovered originally appeared on Massively on Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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In this week's mildly paranoid iPhone app roundup: Prices, slashed for the holidays! iPhones, recklessly tilted! Amazing classic games, handily ported! A decent camera app, sold for nothing! Cheap tickets, booked! Dictations, taken! Movies trivia, two ways! And much, much more...

This Week's Apps

If you hate hate hate galleries, click here to view the apps as a single page.

Honorable Mentions

⬢ Google Mobile: This update keeps the app from launching into Safari as much as it used to, and widens its voice capabilities. A minor but useful upgrade.

⬢ My Name and Head Shoulders Knees & Toes: I suspect most of you don't reader these roundups to find ways to entertain your children. But if you do, My Name, which will teach your tot how to spell whatever is on his birth certificate, and Head, Shoulders Knees and Toes, which makes a simple touch game out of the children's song, will distract them long enough for you to gobble up enough Zoloft to keep the gears moving without anyone noticing.

⬢ Wolfram Alpha: Once a comical $50, this mega calculator app is now a slightly less comical $20.

⬢ Monkey Ball 2: Last week, I noted that this app seemed to have a widespread crashing problem, and therefore couldn't recommend it, despite the fact that it's a worthy—if not revolutionary—followup to one of the iPhone's best launch titles. The bug has been identified: If you have a jailbroken phone, avoid this one. If you don't, and you loved Monkey Ball numero uno, give it a shot.

⬢ iClassic: Replaces your music interface with a faux-clickwheel. Jailbreak-only.

⬢ Voltron: A name and a concept worth getting excited about, let down by mediocre execution.

⬢ Aqua Forest 2: Same deal as above: A game with a pedigree and a soild concept, but on which the developers didn't quite follow through well enough.

This Week's iPhone News On Giz

⬢ Mega-iPhone Dorks Who Idolise Rambo, Strap This On For Size

⬢ Apple Countersues Nokia

⬢ Analyst Claims iPhone Users Are Suffering From "Stockholm Syndrome"

⬢ Apple Patent Shows Dock Made From 'Elastic Sponge-Like Substance' That Conforms To Shape of iPod/iPhone

⬢ In Which a Telco Executive Makes Taking Sound Like Giving

This list is in no way definitive. If you've spotted a great app that hit the store this week, give us a heads up or, better yet, your firsthand impressions in the comments. And for even more apps: see our previous weekly roundups here, and check out our Favorite iPhone Apps Directory. Have a great weekend, everybody!

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NASCAR You don't normally think of Buddhists as NASCAR fans, but why not? Arlynda Boyer, a lifelong NASCAR aficionado, has been practicing Buddhism for past 15 years. She tells Auto Racing Daily (�Where you get your auto racing news�) ...
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Filed under: Sci-fi, Video, EVE Online, Expansions

While the Dominion expansion for EVE Online has been focused on changing how alliances claim and hold territory in New Eden, CCP Games has also given the game quite a facelift. We've mentioned the updated starry backgrounds and shown you a bit about how the planets have changed before, but we came across something new today.

While the footage put together by the players was great, CCP has put together a "Planet Tour" video that's quite stunning. It flies the viewer past the different planet types that players can now encounter -- lava and ice, planetary rings, green continents and swirling clouds. We've got a video embed of the EVE Online Dominion Planet Tour (check out 3:34!) for you after the jump.

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Filed under: Downloads, Features, Driving, Opinion

DiRT 2 lives up to its namesake by offering an intense off-road rally car racing experience for fans looking for a slight change of pace from paved circuit racing games. Although some tracks include some paved roads, players spend the majority of their time on dry, dusty roads, sliding sideways almost as often as driving straight. The loose driving surface can be a lot for new players to get used to, but it won't be long until players find themselves competing against the best for cash and prestige.

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Review: DiRT 2 originally appeared on Big Download Blog on Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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ASK.com Top 10 Most Searched NASCAR Questions: Part 1 Bleacher Report NASCAR drivers are accessible from the garages and pit road to even on the Internet. You want to know about your favorite driver all you have to do is just ...

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Top 35 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup drivers: No. 18 - Marcos Ambrose Scene Daily Marcos Ambrose enjoyed some strong outings in his opening season of full-time NASCAR Sprint Cup competition and wound up ..
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