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Goldman Sachs Bans Dirty Words In E Mails

Jul 30 – Goldman Sachs has informed its employees that a list of obscene words will no longer be tolerated in company e-mails. The Wall Street Journal Reports as follows. That means all 34,000 traders, investment bankers and other Goldman employees must restrain themselves from using a vast vocabulary of oft-used dirty words on Wall Street, including the Read more »
Pizza Hut Rolls Out New Lower Prices
Life Insurance Company Scamming Dead Soldiers Families
Ansel Adams Glass Negatives are Fakes: Family
BP Selling Off $30 Billion Assets To Cover Oil Spill Costs
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Top 10 Comic Villains You Love to Hate

Jul 30 – WARNING: This list contains spoilers. Read on at your own peril! Villains: where would comics be without them? Nowhere, that’s where. Villains are the life blood of any gripping storyline. After all, why would we need heroes if there’s nothing to necessitate heroic acts? So in honor of the big baddies who make our comic Read more »
Rapper T.I. Gets Hitched In Miami Beach
Heidi Montag Files For Divorce
Kara DioGuardi Fired From “American Idol”
Ryan Seacrest Will Miss Ellen DeGeneres
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Herpes Virus Attacks Oysters

Jul 30 – Have a stash of oysters? They may be a better hedge against inflation than gold. Herpes virus has struck the Pacific Oyster breed. Tag that onto pollution destroying oyster beds in bays to the oily goo settling on oyster beds in the gulf and oyster production is falling precipitously. Whitstable was an area that was Read more »
UN Declares Access to Clean Water a Basic Human Right
Claim: Everyday Cosmetics Loaded With Toxins [Video]
Breast Ironing to Keep the Cameroon Guys Away
Sitting Too Long Could Kill You [Study]
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5 Years After Hurricane Katrina: Know the Steps Every Homeowner Should Take

Jul 22 – New York, NY, July 20, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Hurricane Katrina was a powerful storm that packed some powerful lessons. While hurricanes are not preventable, the Insurance Information Institute says there are 4 important steps you can take to protect yourself and your property: STEP #1: Review Your Insurance Coverage Be sure you have the right Read more »
Sarah Palin Will Boycott Bristol and Levi’s Wedding
Dumpster Pools Invade Manhattan – Update: Bill Murray Dumpster Dives
Top 20 Gay Friendly Cities
Skokie Hoarder Dies in Home; Removed Via Hole in Roof
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Scammer Swallows Thumb Drive As Feds Close In

Jul 29 – Florin Necula has a rule of thumb for times of trouble. When the feds are closing in, swallow your thumb drive. That is what Necula admitted to Magistrate Viktor Pohorelsky in Brooklyn Federal Court yesterday. The Daily News reports as follows. A Brooklyn judge couldn’t believe his ears on Wednesday when he heard how an Read more »
Back to College ‘Too Cool for School’ Pool Bus
Dutch Brewer Claims World’s Strongest Beer Title
Fisherman Captures Alligator Feeding Frenzy on Tape (Video)
$69 Hot Dog Sets Record as Most Expensive Tourist Trap
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Al Gore Gets Happy Ending

Jul 30 – Al Gore may have gotten his happy ending. The former vice president of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize winner and climate change activist won’t be charged in a sexual assault accusation stemming from a massage in Portland, Oregon in 2006. The accusation doesn’t warrant a criminal prosecution, Portland police say, because of a lack Read more »
Outgoing White House Budget Director Peter Orszag Gets Cranked at Press Conference (Video)
Anthony Weiner Screams at the GOP (Video)
Groups Battle Over White House Briefing Room Seat
Shirley Sherrod Says She’ll Sue Andrew Breitbart
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Deadly Drug Resistant Bacteria Discovered In Sharks

Jul 26 – Deadly drug resistant bacteria are more widespread across the world than previously thought, with scientists now finding sharks with dangerous germs that resist antibiotics. Drug resistant bacteria in livestock, domestic animals and humans have been documented through several studies, so researchers are curious to learn how widespread these bacteria are in the wild, a key Read more »
Plastiki Completes Pacific Journey
Second Stonehenge Found With Radar Imaging
R136a1: Most Massive Star Ever Discovered (Video)
Apollo 11 Moon Landing Restored with Sound (Video)
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Stay in the Loop with Twitter Lists

Jul 29 – Twitter lists are a powerful tool you can use to sort the accounts you follow based on whatever criteria you desire, but they are also a wonderful way to quickly keep abreast of updates from entire groups of users by watching the lists made by other people. Read more »
Wheat Thins Latest Brand to Launch Consumer-Driven Ad Campaign
Facebook Wants to Dominate News Log-ins
What We Can Learn from the Old Spice Viral Campaign
10 Tips for Tweets That Get Attention
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Adrienne Simmons Killed by Kickboxer

Jul 29 – Adrienne Simmons was knocked out at an amateur tournament on Sunday and died as a result. The thirty four year old female was in the final of three rounds when she was clobbered with a left hook that left her crumbled on the mat. She was able to sit up and talk after the fight Read more »
ESPN Pulls Unflattering LeBron James Article
Lorenzen Wright Found Dead
Race to Mackinac Finishes With Chicago Sailboat Winning
Naked Pics Of Cowboys Tight End Score Internet Touchdown
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iPad App Used by UK Soldiers to Train for Afghanistan

Jul 30 – UK troops are now using a special app developed for the iPad while learning how to handle a fire mission, reports the BBC’s Newsbeat. The iPad is being used at the Royal School of Artillery in Wiltshire, where trials have shown that soldiers indeed learned the jargon and procedures in controlling and directing artillery fire Read more »
Microsoft Playing Catch Up With Apple iPad
Apple Sued for Overheating iPads
Chevy Volt $41,000 Sticker Shock
Blizzard Releases Much-Anticipated StarCraft II
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Giant Alligator Captured In Hilton Head, South Carolina

Jul 29 – An 11 foot, 500 pound alligator made itself at home in a tiny lagoon right off a major thoroughfare in Hilton Head, South Carolina. Islandpacket.com reports as follows on the gargantuan gator. A crowd had gathered to gawk at the massive animal, which had parked itself underneath a well-traversed foot bridge over a lagoon near Read more »
US Congress May Lift Online Gambling Ban
Playing Dead Saves Life in Yellowstone Bear Attack
Military Plane Crash Kills Four in Alaska
Wildfires Destroy Homes, Trees In California
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