Of all the sites on the internet, this is one.
Reading about a concept called purpose-bound money, a few things come to mind. I’d love to know how much investment cash was fleeced out of people who didn’t realize they were financing the invention of the gift card. It sounds like a privacy nightmare by design. Assuming they haven’t already, how long is it going …
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I feel like I start a good number of posts this way, but here we go again. So I’m doing some stuff around the house while enjoying a beer and some tunes, and “Stupify” by Disturbed comes on. “Haven’t heard this one in a while,” I think. “Always kinda liked it. But…but…why in hell do …
Calling in a fake bomb threat and active shooter to a store across the street from where your boyfriend is about to get arrested for shoplifting maybe isn’t the smartest thing you could do, but I’ll go ahead and put it in the category of ideas so crazy they just might work. Distraction can be …
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Given the quality of a lot of what There I Ruined It does, I expected so much more from this than I got, and not just because it’s a short. But on the bright side it made me think of this, which is fabulous. You’ve probably got it figured out, but just in case you’re …
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I think the last time I heard the CBC’s official 1 o’clock time signal was last summer. That, it turns out, was about two months before they decided to kill it after nearly 84 years. It’s sad to see it go. It was a fixture on my radio growing up, as I’m sure it was …
I haven’t heard anything about how Google and Wendy’s are doing with their AI ordering experiment, but according to this here report from the BBC, IBM and McDonald’s have been trying something similar and it’s gone so well that the system is being removed this summer. It seems that it failed for the very reasons …
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Passengers travel from London to London on 9-hour ‘flight to nowhere’ Pilots on a British Airways flight from Heathrow to Texas discovered a minor technical issue while over Canada and decided to return to the UK rather than divert to a local airport I was not on this plane, but I can feel my blood …
In the right context, I don’t see anything wrong with asking high school students to write their own obituaries. I took a writer’s craft class when I was that age, and I recall more than one assignment that required us to write things about ourselves. It wouldn’t have felt out of place at all if …
Hooooh boy. I can’t wait to hear how the OPP explains this, assuming, of course, that it’s better at finding explanations than it apparently is at finding bodies that are right under its nose. To be fair, it does sound like the service did a lot of work here. Unfortunately it ended up being the …
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“I’m gonna be super pissed if this KFC doesn’t have any corn,” said this one guy and no one else ever. Seriously, what does KFC even put corn in? The sad bowls? Do they even still make those things? Investigators say a suspect was in the drive-thru of the restaurant when he tried to place …