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Resentment about affirmative action to get north carolina to vote for jesse helms against a black candidate? now they don't need commercial time to get across that message. now the fact free fear and loathing to make white people afraid for electoral purposes, now it's user generated. joining us now is princeton professor, columnist for "the nation," and msnbc contributor, melissa harris-lacewell. very nice to see you. thanks for coming in. >> yeah. good to be here. >> scaring white people for political profit is obviously a very old tactic. does it matter that it's being done in a new way? >>...

Together. >> that's great. and there, it actually looks like the surface of the moon, the dance floor there. hey, buzz, before you go, we just showed pictures a couple of minutes ago of the astronauts arriving there at the kennedy space center for shuttle 131. it's got to be a bittersweet time for you because they're wrapping things up and unclear the future of manned space exploration in this nation. >> well, if people want to find out about what the space program is doing, i have a new iphone application, they can go to the apps store and look up my new application and -- >> what's it called...

Basically have -- it's an iphone application, and two phones can bump together to share contact information or in this case, actually transfer money between each other. so if you have an iphone, elena, with this software and i do, i can say, you owe me 20 bucks. we can bump hands together and you can give me 20 bucks through our paypal accounts. >> also split a check, go in on a group gift. i mean it is unbelievable. >> cheap skates can't avoid playing. >> right. no alligator arms there. >> no. >> talk about state governments getting involved. the state of arkansas is becoming the first in the...

Value for because they're too old. but logon to the website for free, put in information about the item, whether it still works, whether it's usable, you have the manuals, the cords, and off of that they'll tell you what you can expect to receive in a check. they'll ship you out a box prepaid and then you put your items in a box, send it out to them, they'll verify them and send you a check. >> they'll wipe those devices for you? >> that's the really good thing about this. what about the data and the information? they take everything from laptops to digital cameras. they wipe the data clean of...

Technology, our everyday life now. you can't live without it. it's part of our life. every day you have a computer, you have to have a hand phone. and it has to look good, has to match your fashion, has to feel you're fashionable. you're in sync with watts happening now. >> i didn't know i had to coordinate my ear buds with my outfit. but i guess that's where we're going these days. >> that's right. >> what other designers are integrating technology into fashion? >> a lot of businessiness going on. it's interesting. you see people like norma kamali, she developed an excluesive line for ebay, o...