Email users opting to use Google’s Gmail email service were thrown into a panic as the service went down today. “Gmail down, PANIC STATIONS, PANIC STATIONS. Or I could go and make a cuppa, I suppose”, summed up the cries on Twitter as users looked at communicating with people in other ways. “We aren’t sure [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Google Gmail Service Down
Posted: 24th February 2009 by The Dude in Science | TechnologyTags: email, gmail, google, service down
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Natural Explanation Found for UFOs
Posted: 24th February 2009 by The Dude in Mother Nature, Oddly EnoughTags: Colin Price, electric field, lightning, sprites, thunderstorm, UFO
Mysterious UFO sightings may go hand in hand with a puzzling natural phenomenon known as sprites — flashes high in the atmosphere triggered by thunderstorms. “Lightning from the thunderstorm excites the electric field above, producing a flash of light called a sprite,” said Colin Price, a geophysicist at Tel Aviv University in Israel. “We now [...]
Dealers, Dreamers See Gold in California Housing Bust
Posted: 24th February 2009 by The Dude in Economy | FinanceTags: California, housing, investors, real estate
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – California’s tortured real estate market has brought heartbreak and ruin, but some investors, speculators and first-time home buyers are also dreaming big and finding opportunities — a silver lining in the Golden State’s epic housing crash. For many young couples, plummeting prices and near record-low interest rates make it possible to [...]
The Longest Winning Streak in the US Sports History Continues to Grow
Posted: 24th February 2009 by Simo Häyhä in SportsTags: racquet, sport history, squash, streak, trinity college, varsity team, win
Amid the fury of back-to-back Super Bowls in 2003 and 2004, the New England Patriots put together an NFL-record 21 consecutive victories. The NBA standard belongs to the 1971-72 Los Angeles Lakers, who won 33 straight. In the mid-1950s, the University of Oklahoma prevailed in 47 straight football games. The University of North Carolina women’s [...]
Umm..Let me Get this Straight – Xzibit Did Not Go To a Gay Club with Puff Daddy — Umm Ok??
Posted: 24th February 2009 by Sus Scrofa in Entertainment, LifestyleTags: bad boy, gay club, puff daddy, rappers, xzibit
This Video does NOT represent this article.. I just thought it was funny. So there was a story we didn’t cover about rapper Xzibit being taken to a gay club in Miami by Sean “Diddy” Combs. According to the Bad Boy Blog here’s what happened: You may have heard that Xzibit, as a guest on [...]
5 Ways People Are Trying to Save the World and the Reasons They Don’t Work
Posted: 23rd February 2009 by Sus Scrofa in Lifestyle, Mother Nature, Oddly EnoughTags: Earth, save the world
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Pyramid Scheme Swindler Bernie Madoff Covers New York Magazine…As The Joker.
Posted: 23rd February 2009 by Sus Scrofa in Economy | FinanceTags: Bernie Madoff, Madoff, swindler
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Want Twins? Move to CÂNDIDO GODÓI, Brazil and Drink the Water.
Posted: 23rd February 2009 by Jay Sleeps in Entertainment, Mother Nature, Oddly EnoughTags: Brazil Twins, Candido Godoi, Good Water, Mysterious Births
The mystery has persisted for decades, attracting international attention and inspiring books and investigations by geneticists. It is one reason locals are in no hurry to try to prove their water theory. They are too busy posing for journalists and marketing their town to tourists as the “twins capital of the world. Complete Story
American Express Paying Customers To CANCEL Their Accounts!!!!
Posted: 23rd February 2009 by Sus Scrofa in Economy | FinanceTags: American Express, credit card, debt
In another sign of the bad times, credit card giant American Express is offering to pay select existing customers $300 if they cancel their credit card account. Before you cut up your plastic to buy those new boots, in order to get the $300 prepaid AMEX card cardholders must pay off his or her entire [...]
Inmate Sues Over Satanism Interference
Posted: 23rd February 2009 by Sus Scrofa in Oddly Enough, ReligionTags: Christian, jail, jesus, satanism, worship
BILLINGS, Mont. — A 35-year-old man imprisoned for drug possession has filed a $10 million federal lawsuit against Yellowstone County, alleging jailers interfered with his satanic religious practices while he was in jail. The lawsuit filed by Jason P. Indreland claims county jail staff took from him a religious medallion, denied him access to a [...]