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Green Ranger to enter MMA
Jason David Frank was known as the renegade Green Ranger on the first season of The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and now he will enter the MMA world. The former actor has not really made much of his acting career since the Power Rangers, appearing in a variety of reunion episodes and direct to DVD [...]
Full StoryWal Mart on Ft. Wilderness?
The Orange County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 to grant the special permit to the world’s biggest retailer after a majority of more than 100 speakers said they favored bringing the Walmart to Locust Grove, within a cannonball’s shot from the Ft. Wilderness Battlefield.
Historians and Civil War buffs are fearful the Walmart store will draw [...]
AT&T unblocks 4chan
We can’t help but wonder if AT&T was not just “totally asking for it” when they decided to take measures to block 4chan. Perhaps they were unaware of the type of vindictive, rumor-spreading, hackers who frequent the site or the fact that what they are doing is completely unethical. Still, it was only a matter [...]
Full StoryDisturbing yet Effective Billboard
The local government in Papakura, New Zealand isn’t messing around when it comes to the safety of their roads. Their new bleeding billboard campaign takes a Red Asphalt approach that they hope scare reckless drivers into becoming responsible ones. Not surprisingly, the billboards have been effective. Since they were put in place, there hasn’t been [...]
Full StoryThe best Facebook vanity URL
Unless you have been living under a rock you probably already know that Facebook is letting users create their own vanity URL like Myspace and many other social networking websites have. Within seven minutes of this new service about 345,000 users chose one and after 15 minutes over half a million had one. While many [...]
Full StorySGAE illegally raids house
Music piracy is on the rise and the recording industry has taken the fight into their own hands outside of the court on several occasions. Hosting P2P links is not illegal in Spain but that didn’t stop the Anti-Piracy group SGAE from showing up at the house of the operator of a P2P link hosting [...]
Full StoryShow off your Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a must-have tool for any blogger, web developer or SEO guru. It lets you track the amount of traffic you’re receiving and where it’s coming from (and a whole lot more). Now Google is letting you make your traffic numbers public with a new widget that accesses your Analytics data via an [...]
Full StoryBelkin pays you to give good reviews on Amazon
Belkin has posted offers to pay for fake positive reviews on products that otherwise have bad reviews. A thread was found on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk site. The request even goes as far as asking for positive reviews on there Buy.com products and Newegg.com. This kind of shady business of course is against Amazons policy and [...]
Full StorySony’s Bag-O-Hurt
OK so its pretty well established that the economy is in shambles and the major corporations are feeling the squeeze pretty hard now. Sony isn’t exactly in great shape and the rumor mill has been clocking in overtime lately. One of the most potentially sensational rumors is that Sony is looking at some serious cutbacks [...]
Full StoryBest Buy has been hit by slow economy
Everybody has been hit by the slow economy. I do not care who you think you are, I am certain that you have been hit by the declining economy bug in some way. Best Buy is no different. Today they announced that third quarter earning dropped a whopping 77 percent overall. Because of this, Best [...]
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