Very cool link…
http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2007/12/ames_has_a_star.html
Year: 2007
woman groped Santa…Santa calls North Pole HR
Whole Grain Bread more water than whole grain
This is really too bad I liked this bread! from Consumerist.
Google to launch Wikipedia alternative
Very interesting. Wikipedia owns this though, can Google make a dent?
UPS saved 3 Million Gallons of Gas– By Not Turning Left
Mapping out routes for its drivers, drastically reducing the number of left-hand turns they make helped the company shave 28.5 million miles off its delivery routes, which has resulted in savings of roughly three million gallons of gas and has reduced CO2 emissions by 31,000 metric tons.
Study: 95% of all e-mail sent in 2007 was Spam
There was a time – 2004 to be precise – when spam “only” consumed 70 percent of all e-mail. Those were the good old days. Today, as Barracuda Networks’ annual spam report shows, upwards of 95 percent of all e-mail is spam.
woot
from boing boing
Voters at Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year 2007 poll have chosen “w00t” as 2007’s most iconic word. M-W says that the word is a gamer’s acronym for “we own the other team,” but I’m inclined to think that that’s a backronym, a back-formed acronym created to explain a word already in use.
1. w00t (interjection)
expressing joy (it could be after a triumph, or for no reason at all); similar in use to the word “yay” w00t! I won the contest!
Submitted by: Kat from Massachusetts on Nov. 30, 2005 23:18
Man trapped in bathroom for 100 hours
Great quotes from this article…”At least there was a toilet.” and “only thing I regret is not getting trapped behind the bar.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSL1032522120071210
Gmail goes down…comments on digg are great!
Sorry, your account has been disabled. For more information about Google Accounts, please consult our Help Center. It looks like a Lot of people are having this issue. And any email sent you is getting bounced back. Google, PLEASE fix this! A lot of us Rely on Gmail!
Did Carwford order the Steve Moore hit?
Per reports, former Canucks and current Kings coach Marc Crawford ordered the Bertuzzi hit.