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Gawker’s Kyle Wagner Is an Immature Asshole
The One About the Las Vegas Per Diem entails the story of a young Gawker Editorial Assistant named Kyle Wagner who decided since he had not yet met his $50 per diem in Vegas, he’d buy $50 of burritos. What an ass. Continue reading
Taco Bell promoting it’s Meat
Taco Bell has become synonymous with late nite, cheap or drunken food consumption. Recently, the social networks were alive with tales of Taco Bell’s meat not really qualifying as ‘meat’ due to it’s low true meat content. Seems that may … Continue reading
Infographics are so freaking cool
I love Fast Company for many reasons, and one of them – are the infographics that they like to put on their site. Cleverly organized masses of data which are cleanly represented in a beautiful design. As an example here … Continue reading
Camouflaged Angels in USDA War Poster Overly Friendly?
Fast Company ran an article which detailed a collection of USDA WW II posters which were meant to influence the nation to produce more, conserve and ensure the US and their allies had sufficient supply to fight the war. But … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Science and Health
Tagged canouflaged angel, cotton, graphic novel, sex, udsa
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Centralia PA – Abandoned and Forgotten?
What does a community do when underground coal catches fire? Easy – the government pays off everyone to leave, they rip down all the houses and call it a day. Well, at least that is the short of it after … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Weird News
Tagged abandoned town, centralia, coal fire, fire, ghost town, PA, pennsylvania
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BP Saw Offshore Cleanup as a Game in 1970
Blokes from the UK are showing off a game released in the 70’s called the “BP Offshore Oil Strike” as something so simple, perhaps even children could do it!
Up to four would-be tycoons can compete at exploring for oil, building platforms and laying pipelines to their home countries.
While the game is no longer available, I’m sure a quick trip to Ebay UK may allow you to find a few. Let’s just hope they get it stopped and cleaned up someday soon! Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Weird News
Tagged bp, game, gizmodo, metro.co.uk, offshore oil, oil spill
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BK Fries… Yuck!
Sorry BK, but while I was having a craving for your (only back for a limited time) Italian Chicken sandwich, I got the combo with the fries – even through I know the onion rings are better, but what the heck – and I’m so disappointed. I need a 3D Camera (like the one shown here, coming soon from DXG and the actual camera shown in the photo in this article) just to explain all the things about them I don’t like.
First, they taste like cardboard. Second, they are never “really hot.” Why, I dunno. Continue reading
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Tagged bk, burger king, fastfood, french fries, italian chicken, rant
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Tech Blamed for Less Reading
Leave it to people who sit around noticing the circulation at the library is down and that there are many less people utilizing the printed matter these days to blame it on technology. Why, we should loathe the day Guttenberg … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Technology News, Web 2.0
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