A National Geographic photographer gets quite a surprise when a leopard seal takes pity on him and decides that since he is clearly the worst predator in the sea, she will teach him how to kill and eat penguins. This is absolutely amazing!
Facebook users beware: A new rogue Facebook app is spamming newsfeeds and tricking
users into handing over profile access. According to the security firm Sophos, more than 190,000 people have already clicked on a link sent by this rogue app that promises to show “shocking video”” of a teacher physically assaulting a young man.
The bit.ly link redirects users to a Facebook Page that then prompts users to allow an application called “Teacher nearly kills 13 year old boy. SHOCKING!” access their profile information and permission to post on their wall.
As of right now, it doesn’t appear that the application does anything more than post the spam link to the newsfeed in hopes of tricking more users; however, the next message the app posts to your wall could be far more dangerous.
How do we know Jesus would not have had a great sense of humor? He was obviously an extreme left-wing liberal, which in and of itself is pretty funny…
What a great idea, in order to help raise funds to support the clean-up effort in the Gulf of Mexico, and to help pay damages owed to the countless numbers of people effected by the massive oil spill, BP could start selling promotional T-shirts and other SWAG. Hell, since they are clearly more concerned with capturing as much oil as possible in order to sell it, as opposed to just stopping the leak, why not REALLY capitalize on the situation and ramp up an entire line of clothing to sell! With the oil slick rapidly approaching Florida, I think we could get Disney on board with this plan as well. I say we start with these…
Let me know what you think in the comments!
Amtrak is working on adding free WiFi access to all of its trains, which would certainly make traveling by rail in the US a lot more pleasant. I take an Amtrak train from Philadelphia to New York every now and again for business meetings or trade shows, and while it’s a short enough trip, I always feel like I have to cram a large portion of my workday into the time before I board the train. Knowing that I could actually get a reliable internet connection during my 3 hour round trip would make a huge difference in my travel days.
Amtrak has been testing free WiFi on its Acela Express trains between Washington and Boston for a while. But I’m too cheap to take the high speed trains (which would only get me to New York about 10 minutes faster anyway), so I’ve never had a chance to try the service. But according to Ars Technica, Amtrak says that 39 percent of Acela passengers have used the WiFi service.
It’s not clear exactly when you’ll be able to get WiFi access on a train near you, but Amtrak hopes to start installing the system this fall.
via GottaBeMobile
Starbucks has been offering Wireless internet access at its coffee shops around the US for ages… but while independent coffee shops typically go the free WiFi route, Starbucks started out charging for access. A few years back, the company partnered with AT&T to provide free access — but only for customers who registered for an account, and only for the first two hours. Now Starbucks is going one step further and offering 1-click access to AT&T WiFi at all of its US locations, starting on July 1st.
Starbucks also plans to launch a service called “Starbucks Digital Network” later this fall. The company will work with Yahoo! to provide Starbucks customers with free access to some paid sites such as the Wall Street Journal web site, as well as free downloads of “exclusive content and previews.”
In other words, Starbucks really wants to give you a reason to sit down and spend some time in their coffee shops. If you were planning on doing that anyway, then the new easier-to-access WiFi and the new content portal are nothing to complain about.
From Liliputing.com
I don’t often pay a lot of attention to the crazy political conspiracies my mother frequently rants about, but she recently shared a theory with me that is just too good not to share. It’s especially surprising that it comes from my mom, seeing as she is normally EXTREMELY right wing.
My mother posed the idea that the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon may have been a deliberate plot against President Obama. She pointed out that during the election the Republicans pushed hard with their whole “Drill baby drill” slogan, and it seems awfully convenient that the explosion happened the day after the President agreed to allow further off shore drilling. If nothing else, it does seem ironic that almost immediately after giving into one of the demands of the Republicans, it comes back not only to bite the President in the ass, but the entire nation.
Now when you 
consider that our last President, and his daddy, are both big Texas Oil men, and are certainly not terribly fond of President Obama, would you put it past them to be willing to sabotage a rig in order to sabotage Obama’s Presidency? After all, Bush is the man who was willing to send thousands of our troops to their graves for oil profits, what makes you think he’d hesitate to kill 11 oil rig workers to ruin Obama and help the Republicans regain seats in the House this November, if he had the means.
I am not saying this is a credible conspiracy, and I do not seriously think Bush had anything to do with it, but it is a fun thought experiment, and it is doubly fascinating to me since it all came from my mother, who is the last person you’d ever expect to say something bad about Republicans.
What do you think? Leave comments below.
