Former Arizona governor reveals belief in space aliens
PHOENIX — Former Arizona Gov. Fife Symington trotted out an aide dressed as an alien 10 years ago to spoof the frenzy surrounding mysterious lights in the Phoenix sky. Now he says he saw the lights himself, and believed from the start that they were extraterrestrial.
Photocopiers: A New Culprit for Identity Theft — Especially During Tax Season?
Consumers have seen lots of identity theft warnings recently, but one potential danger that almost no one is aware of is the threat posed by photocopiers.
Last year alone, more than [...]
“Pump and Dump” Scams Are Growing Fast
Here’s a scary, but not surprising, fact: According to the Internet security company, Secure Computing, 90% of all email messages are now spam. This is a large increase.
Further, stock spam has been a significant part of this growth, and now represents 30% of [...]
So What Really Is In A McDonald’s Chicken McNugget?Most folks assume that a chicken nugget is just a piece of fried chicken, right? Wrong! Did you know, for example, that a McDonald’s Chicken McNugget is 56% corn?
What else is in a McDonald’s Chicken McNugget? Besides corn, and to a lesser extent, chicken, The Omnivore’s Dilemma [...]
Copy of Declaration of Independence sells at auction for $477,650
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A rare 1823 copy of the Declaration of Independence sold at auction for $477,650 by a man who found it last year in a Nashville thrift store for $2.48.
Michael Sparks, a music equipment technician, sold the document Thursday at Raynors’ Historical Collectible Auctions [...]
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Gold theft in a Japanese museum
Three masked men have stolen a massive block of gold bullion on display in a museum in Japan. The gold bar, valued at $1.71m (1.27m euro; £0.87m), weighed about 220 pounds (100kg) and was kept in an open safe.
The museum, in the central city of Takayama, said the gold was [...]
Mac PC Spoofs
We love Apple’s “Get a Mac” campaign, which pairs older guy-PC with younger guy-Mac and shows off how much hipper and cuter and cooler Mac is. But now, we’re roaring just as loudly over these four spoofs of the ad series from writer and director Laurie McGuinness. Before the same white background, portly [...]
Winter on Mars
It could be any stretch of dry land under a cloudless sky. The soil looks just as gritty and reddish brown, the rocks just as chunky and carelessly strewn, the far-off hills just as smoothly formed as any arid place known to humans. But this is not Earth. It is Mars. And the [...]
So Bad It’s Good
Colorful and funky murals throughout Southern California decorate many Mexican markets, restaurants, and taco trucks. As this site lovingly documents, these vibrant works of art sit squarely at the delicious intersection of folk art and food. Tony Mora stakes out L.A.-area carnicerias and lets his pictures of these “surreal and fanciful” paintings [...]
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