From i09:
Don’t believe in the existence of extra-terrestrials? The US Government disagrees with you, but they’d never admit it in public. At least, that’s what one former astronaut is claiming, and wouldn’t a former astronaut know?
This is interesting.
I want to believe…
A few days ago videos were posted online showing a few Domino’s employees doing gross things to food they were making, which was then presumably eaten by customers. See the videos here.
How did the videos get online? Well, the employees posted them. That’s pretty stupid. As soon as people started watching them, they took them down, but as anybody who uses the internet knows, when things are deleted they rarely ever go away.
After the videos were found and posted on the Consumerist blog, some readers were able to track down the location of the Domino’s using clues in the background, and google. They contacted the Dominos Corporate office.
Today, the employees were fired.
Seriously… what did they think would happen?
Though, if you’re posting videos online of you shooting boogers onto a pizza, I don’t think your top priority is keeping your job. Still, it’s nice to know their local news has picked up on it (another reason why newspaper shouldn’t die), and hopefully the thought of public humiliation alone would deter any copycat offenses, especially around my area. In addition, Domino’s is looking into pressing charges for intentional health violations and damage to the brand, so the repercussions might go deeper than just embarrassment and unemployment.
Read more about it here. The readers, Amy Wilson and ‘whyerhead’, are right up there with Batman as far as I’m concerned.
“On May 3, 2009, Conficker becomes self-aware. In a panic, computer users around the world try to pull the plug. Conficker, thinking it is under attack, retaliates using a full arsenal of nuclear warheads…”
Cameron and John, are you on this?
Want to be scared of ATMs, too?
The Consumerist blog has been doing things about “skimmers” recently and provided this link. You’ll never approach an ATM the same.
If you have 20 free minutes (but c’mon, who does, am I right?!) you might find this video interesting. It’s called the 7 Sins of the Marketplace, or seven things people do when trying to sell you stuff. In other words, why I hate marketing.
Even if you don’t watch the whole thing, fast forward to the segment called “the Sin of Creation.” It centers around the fictional need for “anti-bacterial” items. Whenever I say anything against anti-bacterial anything, people look at me like I’m filthy and stupid, so it’s nice to see this fraud in particular getting more exposure.
Somewhat related — this morning I saw a commerical that stuck with me. It was for Shout, which is a spray-on stain remover for stains not easily removed by regular laundry detergent. This commercial was for Shout Advanced Gel. I immediately knew that the Shout I’m used to won’t be on the shelves any longer, just like how you can’t by normal Excedrin anymore… everything is Extra Strength.
I think this is because Shout feels like they need to change their image just for an excuse to stay in the public eye. So they invent something that makes you feel like your stains are worse than everybody else’s, and they’re so bad you might even need to decide between five different strengths of stain remover.
“Do I need Advanced, or Advanced Ultra?”
“Well, I don’t know, what kind of stains do you have?”
“Well, hey, I have three kids — four if you count my husband, har har har — so my needs are unique.”
“Great, buy both, just in case.”
“Yeah, let’s sip latte’s while we decide.”
“This latte is giving me a headache. But it’s so good.”
“Well, I have some Excedrin right here.”
“Is it Extra Strength? With my active, on-the-go lifestyle, my headache needs are unique.”
“Oh, sorry, I only have Excedrin Tension Headache formula. I guess we can go buy some Extra Strength.”
“I actually think I might pick up the Excedrin Migraine formula.”
“Oh, they have that?”
Bear McCreary posted his musical recap blog of BSG’s last episode, and it’s great.
Not that anybody read the entirety of my BSG review but I need to make a correction: the song that plays at the end is not a revamped version of “Passacaglia,” but rather a more heavy version of “Shape of Things to Come,” a theme played in Season One (and which you can listen to above.)
BUT, according to his blog, the bass-line of “Passacaglia” was used so I’m only half-wrong.
(CNN) — Insurance giant AIG will have to return to the Treasury Department the $165 million it just paid out in executive bonuses, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Tuesday.
“In addition, we will deduct from the $30 billion in assistance an amount equal to the amount of those payments,” Geithner wrote.
That would be a double payment, essentially a $165 million penalty on AIG for issuing the bonuses.
The move comes after New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo confirmed in a letter to Congress that this year, after receiving federal bailout money, AIG paid 73 employees bonuses of more than $1 million each.
Cuomo also wrote that 11 of the employees no longer work for the company.
The largest bonus paid was $6.4 million; seven other people also received more than $4 million each.
Read more at the link above.
The Willis Tower?
I had no idea Sears moved out in 1992. All this time we should have been calling it something like the Former Sears Tower.
Battlestar Galactica and Feminism
Best BSG article I’ve ever read.
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