This website dynamically mapped the spread of Wal-Mart across America using a green dot for each location starting in the early 60s with a couple stores in the Midwest. It starts slow but like a virus quickly and seemingly exponentially gathers steam. It's strangely beautiful and mesmerizing to watch. Like your mom. Oh snap.
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I think my headline is pretty self-explanatory. In this local news broadcast segment a woman's boyfriend and his accomplice attempted to kidnap her to Mexico. What makes this story bizarre is that the accomplice and the guy's friend has NO NOSE and in the photo they show he really has no nose. Crazy, crazy white people.
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This multi-security cam video of a failed theft of a convenience store is more hilarious than all the Oceans 11 movies added up, especially the very last scene. Watch the entire video as it gets more and more comical. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWn5pQRdzMk]
As my friend pointed out, the only thing that would have made this funnier is if he just had to pull the door to open it.
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Chairman Mao got booted from the 10 yuan (roughly $1.50) note and has been replaced with the Olympic stadium.
MAOH SNAP!
A Boeing 727 passenger jet has been sitting at a Vietnamese airport tarmac for the past six months and after a few months of investigating authorities can't locate the owner of it.
The aircraft flew several times after arriving at the airfield, transporting passengers from Siem Reap (Cambodia) to Hanoi and vice versa, but since then has been left idle at the airfield. Neither the crew nor owner can be found.Though the aircraft has a Cambodian flag on its fuselage, nobody has any information about an airline named Air Dream in Cambodia.
I'm sure someone can make a reference here to Lost. I can't because I've never seen a single episode of that show. I just know an airplane was involved in its "origin" story. You know what else? This 727 is "lost." In Vietnam. Which is where Lost is filmed. Actually it's filmed in Hawaii, I think. Which is closer to Vietnam than New York City.
Read more here.
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Check out what happened to the nose of this recent Northwest Airlines plane on a flight from the Motor City to Tampa. It looks "a bit like a beer cup smashed in after a football game."
Duh. I'm filing this story under "Things I Already Knew."
- The environment, burning enough fuel to power a car for a year in just one hour.
- Public safety: Even though private planes incur the same air-traffic control costs as commercial airliners, commercial planes pay for 95 percent of FAA air-traffic control costs in $2,015 in taxes per flight, while just accounting for 73 percent of air control capacity. Private planes only pay $236 per flight in taxes.
- Tax revenues: Private plane buyers can take a larger deduction their first year owning a new jet.
- The war on terror: The Department of Homeland Security IDs private planes as a particular risk.
Read more here.
When I was in elementary school, I used to draw epic battles on the margins of my assignments and homework. The drawings often depicted hovering Apache helicopters firing their missiles at a massive Godzilla-Transformer hybrid rising out of the ocean while simultaneously stomping on attack submarines and slapping away battle cruisers. And oh yea, UFOs, always UFOs, and their death rays. This was the world I would lose myself in and try to illustrate. However, the eyes of the neutral observer probably just saw a lot of stick figures and overall messiness. But in my head, my drawings looked something like this. In other words, BAD ASS.
The CEO of I Can Has Cheezburger (the home to all those Big Type LOL Cat photos), which grabs over 2 million page views daily and each entry has over 150 comments, is allergic to cats. But not money because he be LOLing all the way to the bank.
(Ssshhhh. New internet meme in progress.) People taking victory photos of themselves and their e-mail when the inbox reaches zero.
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British shock artist Martin Creed latest effort features a single runner sprinting every 30 seconds through the the empty Duveen Galleries at the Tate Britain. View video and interview with Creed here.
This is actually a prop train being used in a remake of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three which sounds a lot like Speed...with trains.
I interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you this breaking news: Roby Sobieski, brother and a Princeton Tiger of a relatively successful actress, who incidentally attended my alma mater, gets pwned and collectively called out on his arrogant assholeness. Or something. I think the word is, schadenfreude. Or something.
A play at Princeton’s Berlind Theater needs a line-prompter. A group email seeks volunteers. To minimize needless responses, the vounteer is to “reply all” so everyone knows the position has been filled. Freshman KaYee Ivy Lau responds, "I can do it if you still need someone :)"
...Roby [Sobieski] pens a patronizing response that quotes English dictionaries at length and points her to a career in telemarketing.
Maybe reply-all should just be disabled across all email services. It does more harm than good. Always.
Anyways, I just want to use this opportunity to add that I once hooked up with an actress who is listed on IMDB and one of her movies grossed over 70 million dollars. Domestically.
Ah, read the rest of this idiotic story here (and of course the playground comments is just as if not more enjoyable than the actual "story.").
No, it isn't some screenshot from a new M. Night Shymalan "horror" film. But, faceless people have been appearing in various high profile places, such as Wimbeldon and red carpet events in the UK. It's all most likely a guerrilla marketing promotion. Still doesn't make it less creepy.
On June 20, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia granted the test's publisher, the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), a $2.3 million judgment against the operator of the site, Scoretop.com. GMAC has seized the site's domain name and shut down the site, and is analyzing a hard drive containing payment information. GMAC said any students found to have used the Scoretop site will have their test scores canceled, the schools that received them will be notified, and the student will not be permitted to take the test again.
Some b-school kids are probably nervous as all hell.
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This is from a few years ago and I post this despite the danger of being smited, but some people voted the following as the best god joke ever.
Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, "Don't do it!" He said, "Nobody loves me." I said, "God loves you. Do you believe in God?"He said, "Yes." I said, "Are you a Christian or a Jew?" He said, "A Christian." I said, "Me, too! Protestant or Catholic?" He said, "Protestant." I said, "Me, too! What franchise?" He said, "Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?" He said, "Northern Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative†Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912."
I said, "Die, heretic!" And I pushed him over.
I'm just the messenger, folks. Although this messenger thought these two were also funny:
- When I was a kid, I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then I realised, the Lord doesn't work that way. So I just stole one and asked Him to forgive me ... and I got it!
- So I'm at the wailing wall, standing there like a moron, with my harpoon."
Harpoon, haha.