Very cool link…
http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2007/12/ames_has_a_star.html
Category: web randomness
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?
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
Canoe man’s sons fear ‘huge scam’
“In a joint statement released by police, Darwin’s sons, Mark, 31, and Anthony, 29, said they were in an “angry and confused state of mind” and they wanted no further contact with their parents.”
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/12/06/missing.canoeist/index.html
9 Dead in Omaha, NE, mall shooting
I didn’t even know Omaha (one of the cities I grew up in) had a mall. Shooter may have committed suicide.
More on Mr. Canoe
Seems there was a photo taken of him with his family when he was supposed to be dead. He is also being questioned about possible fraud.
CompUSA Closing?
from consumerist.com: “Rumor has it that CompUSA could be closing down for good immediately following the holidays.” I used to work there in High School. I can honestly say I will not miss it.