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CafePress Is Officially Cool with Selling T-Shirts Urging People to Pray for Obama’s Death

Yesterday, we reported that CafePress had halted sales of T-shirts bearing the slogan, “Pray For Obama: Psalm 109:8,” which in Bible-talk means pray that “his days be few; let another take his office.” After some thought, they’re selling them again. Go here for the full panoply of CafePress bumper stickers, mugs, and shirts containing prayers for the president to die and for his daughters— per Psalm 109 —to “continually be vagabonds, and to beg.” The Psalm 109 items were indeed briefly taken off the market yesterday, a CafePress spokesman tells Gawker, after some controversy developed about the appropriateness of veiled death threats as bumper sticker material.

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CafePress Is Officially Cool with Selling T-Shirts Urging People to Pray for Obama’s Death

Google Thinks All New Yorkers Who Fly Into JFK Are Arab

Tonight someone emailed us to point out a truly bizarre glitch in Google Maps — apparently they think that anyone in New York who searches for directions from JFK airport is Arab. Here’s what our tipster pointed out: Go to Google Maps and click “get directions.” Type “JFK airport” into the A search field and any NY location like “Williamsburg, NY” as the B destination. Click “Get Directions” and “JFK airport” is suddenly Arabic!!! So I tried it multiple times searching for directions from JFK to White Plains, Long Island, Park Slope, Buffalo, Queens and Harlem, and each time the name of the airport showed up in what appears to be Arabic

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Google Thinks All New Yorkers Who Fly Into JFK Are Arab