Archive for April, 2009
economic stimulus
here we go again, making oil-rich countries and their leaders central to the health of our economy. the would-be 4th member of the axis of evil and anti-american hugo chavez gave retail sales a boost over the weekend when he gave president obama a little reading materials for the ride back home–a book called “open veins [...]
week in review: april 13 – 17, 2009
in a week that was capped off by great weather (finally), some interesting things happened here at sacred bird–a lot of it in technology . here’s what happened:
stupid people love their social media.
the same dumb people fueled the hullabaloo over in twitter land.
hacking went old school.
speaking of old, you may be able to go back to [...]
everyone’s atwitter
you’ve heard us talk about twitter a while back. at the time, maybe you were too busy to take a look or maybe you had no clue what it was and didn’t care. but now you might’ve read that ashton kutcher and cnn have a little competition on who will reach 1 million followers first. both kutcher and [...]
spammers are kidding the environment
no, not the people who make the “meat” product, the emails. the antivirus/spam filtering service giant mcafee has released a new study, “carbon footprint of spam”, which finds that email spam is bad for the environment. the excess energy utilized due to the transmission of spam is equivalent to the electricity used in 2.4 million [...]
snakes on a plane
apparently this really can happen. 4 pythons escaped from their containers during a two and a half hour quantas flight over australia. once the plane landed, the snakes were nowhere to be found and the plane was taken out of service. because samuel jackson wasn’t available*, the airline decided to fumigate the [...]
how hungry are you?
we’re use to bidding in auctions for things like electronics, toys and collectibles and in the past couple of years, ebay has even become common place for the auction of cars, houses, and the occasional body part. since everyone’s trying to save a buck, food auctions are the new thing now, popping up in more [...]
no layover in afghanistan required!
before monday, one of the only ways you could get to cuba was to get picked up as an enemy combatant on the battlefield in afghanistan. since orange doesn’t look that good on me, i was glad to see that the obama administration lifted the ban on american travel to cuba for citizens with family [...]
