Tiger Woods is not to blame.
I think we should blame Nike. After all they endorsed the shit out of him and kept telling him “Just Do It”
[News] 18 year old man kidnapped, held at church, and raped by a woman.
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And that my dear readers is the story in a nutshell.
The details are as follows.
According to the Zimdiaspora, the 18 year old teenager was running an errand for his boss at a shopping center in Chitungwiza , New Zealand Zimbabwe. As he pulled into the parking lot, 3 women in a car pulled up next to him and forced him into their car. They then proceeded to take him to a church and lock him up. One of the women then came in and forced him to have sex with her.
The story then goes on to say that she called up his employers wife to let her know that he was safe and not to worry about him…
WAIT A MINUTE.
Did I just read that correctly? How did she know who his employer was, and more than that, what his employers wife’s number was? This sounds a little fishy to me.
What do you’ll think?
Ohh.. so the women let him go the next day by driving him to another shopping center and letting him out.
How are they still in business?
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I’m talking yellow pages here.
Who uses them anymore? I’m really curious. I haven’t touched one in at least 6 years. No one I know has used one in years. Even my parents who are not the most computer literate will now “Google” something.
For the more tech savvy, lets look at the tsunami of options that are available for us.
- There is the traditional 411 which costs lots of money.
- 1800 Goog411 which is free and is awesome.
- There is the Google text service where you sms them what you are looking for and they text you back the answer.
- There Google maps that can look up quite alot of places that you want.
and these are just tools on the mobile phone. Give me a computer with an internet connection and the sky is the limit.
So that goes back to the main question, how are they surviving? Remember the old tag line “Let your fingers do the walking”? Well, I’m sad to say that it does not look like those old fingers have a lot more walking left in them.
National Bookstore Day
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Yup, You read that right. The United States of America now has a National Bookstore Day.
There used to be a time (not too long ago) were having a day named after you or after a particular purpose actually meant something (eg: Martin Luther King Day, Veterans Day, etc…).These days of meaning seem to have seen their last light of day.
It seems as if every day is some sort of obscure day, or every week is some sort of week or every month is some sort of month.
Its at a point where its starting to get annoying. I mean, seriously. Give a dude a chance. I’m still trying to get leave to celebrate Chinchilla day.
I digress.. back to books. I love them. I love to sit down and have a nice read. You know actually thumb through the pages of a real book instead of scrolling through pages on a monitor.
Books are expensive to keep buying and once you have bought a book, how many times do you really read it? I have a bunch of books and at most i’ve read a book 2 times. Renting is totally the way to go.
I wrote about a cool new startup called Rentalic a little while ago. Well this is perfect. People with a whole bunch of books can list their entire library out on Rentalic and rent them out to other users.
To visit Rentlic go to www.rentalic.com
We need a national rent your books out day!
[news] – US resort offers $219 room for $19 with a tent
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I think I am losing my mind. I am not a marketing guru or anything like that, but this just does not make any sense to me.
I just finished reading an article on BBC News that The Rancho Bernardo Inn, a “Luxury Resort” here in the United States was offering rooms that usually start at $219 for as low as $19 a night. I understand that part. That’s actually a damm good deal. It’s this next part that I don’t understand.
The room starts at $219, but the resort will then reduce the price of the room for each amenity you don’t want in the room.
The cheapest deal – $19 – means guests sacrifice a bed, breakfast, air-conditioning, towels, toilet paper, a mini-bar and lighting.
Staff will even unscrew the headboard from the wall – but leave a small tent.
Wait, did I read that right? They even take out the toilet paper (a roll costs less than $0.50. Probably much less when they buy it wholesale).
General manager John Gates said that during tough economic times it was a way to help people stay at a nice resort who normally could not afford to.
So you take everything nice out of the room so its worse than a 2 start dump (last I checked even 2 star motels gave you toilet paper) and think your giving people a way of saying at a “NICE RESORT“?
What makes even less economic sense is that your room is going empty anyway. So instead of letting someone stay there at $19 with full comfort (which might actually convince the person to come back and pay full price) you increase your overheads by getting your staff to strip the room on a per client basis, so they can stay in a TENT IN AN EMPTY ROOM with NO toilet paper and expect them to come back and pay full price next time???
DUDE, WHAT ARE YOU SMOKING?
Source: BBC News.
[Funny] Flight from Sacramento to San Francisco – $ 353.00
I am subscribed to price alerts for flights out of the Sacramento, CA airport. Most times it is quite useful and lets me find some good deals, but every now and then I get some real jems like this offer.
I mean seriously…. Who priced this flight. For those who are not familiare with the geography of this area, you can drive from Sacramento to San Francisco in under an hour.
On a US domestic Flight
I find myself flying again, and it never ceases to amaze me how the mighty have fallen. On my US Airways flight the once free pretzels they gave as snacks are not there anymore. You can buy a snack box that has “Premium” snacks in it for $7.00. I’m surprised they still give you something to drink for free. Thankfully this time around i picked up a decent deli sandwich before boarding the plane. The last time around I forgot to do that and ended up buying one of the gourmet inspired “Hot” sandwiches. It was one of the driest, blandest, and worse tasting sandwich ever. it was not even HOT.
I miss flying airlines like Malaysian, Singapore Airlines, Emirates, Sri Lankan Airlines and the like where you actually looked forward to the food and its FREE. Virgin Atlantic now flies domestic routes in the US under the local brand of Virgin America and they provide you a nice free meal and snacks for local domestic flights while still being competitive with the other US airlines, so why cant they?
Person to Person Renting – Rentalic
This is cool. Person to person renting, or as Wikipedia refers to it, peer to peer renting, is one person renting something they have to someone else, and vice versa. I mean think of it, we all have a bunch of stuff laying around that we don’t use all the time, and at the same time we have alot of things that we need one in a while that we dont want to buy just for that one time. The solution, rent it. Here’s where Rentalic (Rental In Community) comes in. With a slogan of Rent. Share. Be Green. the company is hoping to provide that perfect solution for person to person renting.
Hoping to create sustainable communities, but promoting reuse and recycling of items amongst the the people who live within an area, this proximity based service seems to be the right answer. All while reducing the overall carbon footprint of the people living in that area.
Rentalic, faced the public for the first time in a soft launch at Maker Faire 2009, in San Mateo CA. The responce was out of this world. People loved the idea and could not wait for the site to go live. The Rentalic website says that it will be going live soon, so here’s to keeping our fingers crossed. In the meanwhile you can pre-register at the site now to make sure you will be one of the first to beta test and use the site.
Update: November 11, 2009
Rentalic is now open for invitation only beta testing. I have some invites if you need some. Just leave me a comment and i’ll email you an invite. They also got a cool video explaining how it all works!
The ‘Sebalaneni’ song – New song and Video by Ranidu and Mobitel
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Our Sri Lankan armed forces have defeated the terrorist organization the LTTE on the battle field and now dawns a new era, an era in which all Sri Lankans come together to rebuild our nation. As our president, Mahinda Rajapaksa said in this speech Tuesday morning addressed to the parliament; there are no minorities in Sri Lanka, only Sri Lankans.
When the LTTE struck, they struck indiscriminately. When they bombed public transport, they killed Sri Lankans. There were Sinhalese, Tamils, Muslims, Burgers, and Malays who suffered as a result of their attacks.
Extract from His Excellency’s speech:
“‘Our aim was to liberate our Tamil people from the clutches of the LTTE’ – President
“The war against the LTTE is not a war against Tamil people; Our aim was to liberate our Tamil people from the clutches of the LTTE; Our heroic forces have sacrificed their lives to protect Tamil civilians; The victory we have gained by defeating LTTE is the victory of this nation and the victory of all people living in this country. Protecting the Tamil speaking people of this country is my responsibility. That is my duty. All the people of this country should live in safety without fear and suspicion. All should live with equal rights. That is my aim. Let us all get together and build up this nation”, said H.E the President and Commander-in- Chief, Mahinda Rajapaksa delivering the opening address at the historic Parliamentary fourth session today (May 19). 2347708 “
We must never forget our armed forces who sacrificed everything to free all Sri Lankans from terrorism and to give us this chance of rebuilding out nation.
The Api Wenuwen Api Fund is a collaboration between the The Ministry of Defence and the Central Bank of Sri Lanka to build 50,000 houses for the serving Tri-Service personnel. In an effort to help raise money for this fund Mobitel has teamed up with one of Sri Lanka’s most talented artists Ranidu, to create the Sebelaneni song. 100% of the proceeds raised from this song will be donated to the Api Wenuwen Api Fund, so I urge everyone to help out.
The following information about the song is provided from the press release taken from defence.lk
The ‘Sebalaneni’ song is available exclusively on Mobitel m tunes (caller ring back tone) and Mobitel customers can now select this song as their mTune by typing “21212″ and SMSing to 777. This service would be available at a fee of Thirty rupees per month and proceeds from this service also contribute to the ‘Api Wenuwen Api’ fund.
The music video of ‘Sebalaneni’ would be available in DVD format at all Mobitel outlets in the near future and all proceeds from the sale of each DVD is to be contributed to the ‘Api Wenuwen Api’ fund.
Mobitel customers would also be able to further contribute to the ‘Api Wenuwen Api’ fund by downloading ‘Sebalaneni’ Ring – tones from wap.mobitel.lk and also by downloading ‘Sebalaneni’ Wallpapers from wap.mobitel.lk in the near future.
‘Sebalaneni’ was composed and sung by Ranidu Lankage, while the lyrics were written by Anuradha Uduwage and the music video was directed by Subash Pinnapola.
Did Sri Lanka Army shell the No Fire Zone ? See the full picture !!!
we all know the LTTE, “ the Tamil Tigers are among the most dangerous and deadly extremists in the world” Source: FBI website (NOT a rebel group as often referred to by BBC their international news arm) has a very powerful propaganda division that they have used effectively many times in the past. here is another classic example of it at work.. SHAME ON YOU news agencies of the world who fell for this.
isn’t it journalism 101 to validate your sources????
It’s a “stage managed” Photo Shootout. Look right ; The girl shoots Victims actions with a Smile, using a Semi Professional Camera ( Nikon D Series …..? in the No Fire Zone – VELLAMULLIVAIKKAL……!!! ).
What an ACT. That’s the reality of LTTE’s (and Tamilnet’s) News.
All major News Papers in the world published only the first photograph…….!!!
The LTTE is known for using their own people who they are supposed to be fighting for as HUMAN SHIELDS source: Statement from the United Nations via the Daily Mirror. This includes children, women and the elderly.
“…council members [the united nations security council] “strongly condemned” the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), who are apparently using civilians trapped in a 5 square mile (13 square km) strip of land as human shields…” – U.N. Ambassador Claude Heller
Remarks made by the President of the U.N Security Council.