Archive for October, 2009
ksw
the church of scientology has had a rough week so it may be a little bit of trouble keeping scientology working (or ksw for short). first, the french fined the french branch of the church close to $1M big ones for fraud–”investigators said the group pressured members into paying large sums of money for questionable [...]
thanks, i think
target, the hippest store on the block has changed its policy about returns. consumer reports thinks the new policy is great, if you can read through the red tape. here are the details:
lost receipts: customers can return as many items as they want in a 90 day period without a receipt for a total value [...]
einstein had speech difficulties as child*
aw damn. i find out today that i may’ve been responsible if my friend’s kids were “slow”. a few years ago when all my friends starting having babies, my default gift was the baby einstein dvds. back then, things were different and the baby einstein dvds were the only “educational” items available.
today brings news the [...]
the king’s in bed with microsoft
burger king has run some strange stateside campaigns lately so it shouldn’t surprise anyone that their latest promo in japan has a little weird. to coincide with microsoft’s windows 7 launch in japan, burger king is introducing a new windows 7 whopper burger. the first 30 customers each day can purchase a windows 7 burger [...]
dear sir
how many time have you gotten an email that started with “first, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction.” you don’t have to read much further to know it’s some request asking you to help someone retrieve some money from some bank. thanks to Microsoft and nigeria’s economic and financial crimes commission (efcc), [...]
new face for cnn.com
with a new “cutting-edge design, integrated video and innovative features”, cnn launches their newly redesigned cnn.com web site today. here’s the lowdown on what’s new
new personalization feature allows you to customize your personal cnn.com homepage with local weather and news
better search capability
a beta tool called newspulse which is an “intuitive” filtering tool allows you to [...]
news you can use: weekend edition
here’s to another week in the bag–the week that was ending october 23, 2009. a lot happened this week crossing all of the categories that are important for staying in-the-loop. here’s the stuff that happened:
business and economy: drugstores went green, bananas made a move to stay yellow.
science and technology: the secret of the tank was [...]
