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Archive for February, 2010
SOCOM cheater convicted in grand jury investigation
There's a few valuable life lessons in the following story, so pay attention: A Pittsburgh news station recently reported on a 17-year-old boy who was disqualified from a SOCOM U.S. Navy Seals tournament after it was discovered he was cheating. In retaliation, the young man hacked into the official PlayStation site, and crashed it for 11 days back [...]
“The Ex” Knife Set and Holder
Not only functional, but also therapeutic, "The Ex" Knife Set and Holder is a five-piece knife set plus holder that makes for the perfect gift and a guaranteed conversation piece. Constructed with heavy-gauge durable stainless steel, each knife offers a razor-sharp precision cutting blade and a hollow, ergonomically designed for comfortable [...]
Video of Epic Beard Man being… well… EPIC!
Part one of a film documenting Thomas Bruso (infamously known across the internet as Epic Beard Man) and the days surrounding the release of an internet video showcasing a fight on an Oakland public bus. 10 days ago and half a world away, a 67yr old man got into a scuffle on a bus. Last night I heard him discussed by strangers in a London [...]
Yelp extorts businesses by allegedly putting up fake bad review and then telling them to pay up to remove it.
Yelp, the online review site, is being accused of extortion in a class-action lawsuit filed in Los Angeles this week. The suit alleges that the site tried to get a Long Beach veterinary hospital named Cats and Dogs Animal Hospital to pay $300 a month — for a minimum 12-month commitment — to suppress or delete reviews that disparaged the [...]
Get a Credit Card Through Credit Unions and Small Banks to Save
Earlier this week the credit industry was changed by new consumer protection laws. They're hardly taking the cut in profiteering laying down, however, and it's up to consumers to protect themselves from new money-grabbing tactics. (more...)
Giant Google infographic
The Pingdom folks have cooked up a massive infographic of facts and figures pertaining to Google's business, technology, and operations.
Boring + Boring = Pleasant?!
I've read that Aristotle taught his students while they walked around. It seemed to enhance learning and make the activity more enjoyable. The self-experimenter Seth Roberts has found that doing two boring things together, like walking on a treadmill and studying flash cards, results in a pleasant experience... Fact 1: For the last few weeks, [...]
Delta special: SFO to OAK for $69?
My friend received the above Delta Weekly Fare Specials email this morning. Note that one of the (erroneous?) specials is a $69 each-way fare from Oakland to San Francisco. That's a 31 mile trip airport to airport across the Bay Bridge, so perhaps it would actually be cheaper to fly than, say, take a taxi?
Guy that got beat-up by Epic Beard Man, interviewed
So I guess we can sum this whole thing up with: Drunk dude meets mentally unstable dude on a bus in Oakland, eventually leading to a fight after some gratuitous goading from a racist, lying, thief holding a video phone.
London councils issue themselves parking tickets, then fight them in court
Parking wardens working for London's local authorities routinely issue tickets against authority-owned vehicles. When this happens, the authority takes itself to court to argue that it shouldn't have to pay fines to itself. Sometimes, they ask the courts to award themselves legal costs from their own pockets. This according to Barrie Segal, who [...]
Girl stuck in Pittsburgh airport overnight shoots epic horsing around video
"This young woman made the best of a 10 hour stopover during Snowpocalypse '09 by filming herself mugging around the empty Pittsburgh airport." Apparently she is one of the few people who remembers that the fundamental purpose of the universe is to allow you to have fun.
Mike Huckabee: “CPAC has becoming increasingly more libertarian and less Republican over the last years…”
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee blasted the Conservative Political Action Conference Saturday as outdated, nearly corrupt and unrepresentative of the conservative movement. Huckabee, a 2008 Republican presidential contender and potential 2012 candidate who had spoken at the conference for years, said the reason he blew it off this year was [...]
Whoops! Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay: A funny and well-written economics book
I have read a mountain of economics books that purport to explain the great econopocalypse in which we find ourselves, but none can hold a candle to John Lanchester's Whoops! Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay, a British book that explains the macro- and microeconomic phenomena with a novelist's sense of plot and clarity (Lanchester [...]
Olympic bullying drives goggle manufacturer to verse
UVEX, the ski goggle manufacturer, got a nastygram from an Olympics Committee IP lawyer, forbidding them from using any images, or even mentioning, that gold medal winner Lindsey Vonn uses their equipment. So UVEX turned to verse: Blonde Who Uses Our Stuff Wins Downhill (Last Name Rhymes With "Bonn") There once was a lawyer from the [...]
Epic Beard Man, THE GAME!
For those who have ZERO clue who EPIC BEARD MAN IS, here’s the video of the whole event! Epic Beard Man, THE GAME!
A list of pornstars and their real names…
Here is a select few... more after the jump. Allie Sin - Stephanie Draheim Amber Lynn - Laura Adams Amy Reid - Devin Valencia Feller Anetta Keys - Aneta Smrhová Aria Giovanni - Cindy Renee Volk Asia Carrera - Jessica Andrea Steinhauser Aurora Snow - Rebecca Claire Kensington Belladonna - Michelle Anne Sinclair Bianca [...]
Ron Paul Wins Presidential Straw Poll at CPAC
Hey I'm just excited that They actually reported the outcome of the straw poll. I could easily imagine the headline reading "GOP likes Romney by a wide margin over Palin!" Ron Paul has ended Mitt Romney's three-year run as conservatives' favorite for president, taking 31 percent of the vote in the Conservative Political Action Conference's [...]
WhoseTube?
Embedded videos — those hosted by YouTube but streamed on blogs and other Web sites — don’t generate any revenue for record companies, so EMI disabled the embedding feature. Now we can’t post the YouTube versions of our videos on our own site, nor can our fans post them on theirs. If you want to watch them, you have to do so on [...]
Epic Beard Man interview – Thomas Bruso
Epic Beard Man tells us his story... Cliff Notes: He is broke, a Vietnam veteran, and his mom just died.
URL redirection service makes innocent URLs look sinister
ShadyURL: "Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening." The shady url for ShadyURL is http://5z8.info/--INITIATE-CREDIT-CARD-XFER--_r8a4a_dogfights
