Category Archives: Interesting

Sylvia Browne Busted Again

From Stopsylviabrowne.com: Some time during the night of November 5th, 2000, nineteen-year-old Ryan Katcher disappeared after being dropped off at his mother’s home in Oakwood, Illinois. Subsequent searches of the surrounding area turned up neither Ryan nor his Ford 150 … Continue reading

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Top 10 Biggest Business Debacles of 2006

1. AOL refuses to cancel customer’s account 2. Comcast tech falls asleep on customer’s couch 3. BOA employee sings U2 cover about MBNA merger 4. Sony recalls potentially exploding batteries 5. Bausch & Lomb recalls fungus causing contact-lens solution 6. … Continue reading

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Maybe We Should Call it iHard?

Justin Long (the “I’m a Mac” guy from the commercials) is in the new Die Hard with Bruce Willis. I have to say, it looks like it’s gonna be pretty cool. Oh sure a balding Bruce Willis doesn’t typify an … Continue reading

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Did Opie and Anthony stop the Stern effect?

Possibly… We’ll never know for sure, but Orbitcast has an interesting graph with an interesting accompanying point. The chart is as follows: Orbitcast’s point is as follows: An interesting coincidence to say the least. Now this isn’t necessarily translating to … Continue reading

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Alienware Tries Scummy Pressure

I was going to throw a few quotes in from an article on Hexus about how Alienware tried to influence their reviews by telling them they weren’t sending them any more units after their not-so-hot review of a recent system. … Continue reading

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Common Sense Potential

A Labour peer yesterday named a “serial and repeated liar” whose false allegations resulted in an innocent man being jailed for a sex attack. Lord Campbell-Savours used parliamentary privilege to name the woman during a debate in the House of … Continue reading

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Awareness Months are BS

Irina was worried people would beat her about the head for this post. I actually think it’s brilliant, particularly this part: Trust me, I have exact same problem with cultrual/gender/random natural disaster awareness months, not just diseases. Although these awareness … Continue reading

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Strange Ad

Text via Jeff: A young Florida state trooper, heading home, stops to help a stranded motorist. The driver, an escaped convict, kills the trooper with 5 shots. The killer is tried and convicted. Liberal Democratic governor, Bob Graham, signs death … Continue reading

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Gotta love the Howie Math…

Sirius does some Howie math to dispute claims that his numbers ain’t all that great on Sirius: Scott Greenstein, president-entertainment and sports at Sirius, said Sirius has hired a third-party research company to get audience data on “certain things our … Continue reading

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Lots of luck with that…

via Boing Boing: Get your Congresscritter to post a time-sheet every work day The Sunlight Network’s Punchclock Campaign is offering $1000 bounties to Americans who get their Congresscritters to publish a time-sheet detailing what they do while they’re drawing a … Continue reading

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Maybe Next Time, We’ll Leave The Plug In

Sophisticated brain-imaging techniques suggest that a young woman in a vegetative state five months after a traffic accident has some mental functioning, even though she is unable to physically respond to her environment, British researchers report today. The woman’s brain … Continue reading

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What happened to it?

Foreign Policy Magazine via Dvorak: By late October, the State Department had allocated $66 million of the $126 million in international assistance to FEMA, which then granted it to the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR), the nonprofit aid arm … Continue reading

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Quote of the Day

Jason Calacanis: If you are in the Internet industry and you don’t have time to blog about your product then you should quit. Go home, give up, and find another career. Your competitors are blogging about their products and talking … Continue reading

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