Bag of Randomness

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Bag of Randomness

  • I actually went to the doctor yesterday.  Yup, I’m sick.  Sometimes I don’t mind being sick because it reminds me of just how good I really have things.
  • Christopher Nolan has made some great Batman movies, but I highly question his pick of leading ladies.  The latest is Anne Hathaway, and she just does nothing for me.
  • Groupon is the king of social/group coupon sites and Living Social has been the little engine that could, but Living Social had a stroke of genious yesterday as they offered $20 Amazon.com giftcards for $10.  The Internet was ablaze with that deal as it was posted on just about every blog I visited as well as some news sites.  So basically they just bought a lot of new customers for $10 each, and if you consider all the word of mouth advertising that’s even a bigger cost savings.
  • Who owns Facebook?  The answer is in this nice little chart – Bono owns a whopping 1.5%.
  • The Mavs broke their losing streak to the Lakers?
  • In the latest Rolling Stone, Lil Wayne talks about reading the Bible in jail, “I also read the Bible for the first time. It was deep! I liked the parts where some character was once this, but he ended up being that. Like he’d be dissing Jesus, and then he ends up being a saint. That was cool.”
  • A padded jail room made of cotton candy
  • Jesus Loves Me on the handsaw
  • The 50 Most Loathsome Americans of 2010
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Bag of Randomness

  • Well, that darn head cold has now turned into a real cold I think, complete with body aches, sore throat, and all the other fun stuff.  I could be resting in bed, but no, here I am for you, blogging my little heart out.  Actually, I can’t sleep so I thought I might as well be doing something ‘productive.’
  • Maybe I got sick wondering outside icy cold LaGuardia trying to find my sister who was at JFK.  Love ya, sis, and don’t think I’m going to let you live this down anytime soon.
  • I just heard Letterman say something about how Dick Cheney predicts that Obama is going to be a one-term president – this coming from the same man that predicted we would find weapons of mass destruction.  Funny.
  • Letterman also wondered if Leno had anything to do with Regis’ retirement announcement.  Once again, funny.
  • Sometimes I think people who sell things on eBay drive up their own bids with a different ID or a friend’s or spouse’s.
  • The Dallas Morning News redesigned their website yesterday and even though it looks cleaner, the design is still poor.  In some areas  (the Sports section in particular – screenshot) there’s an outline of stories with lead stories on top and the supporting stories underneath in a smaller font, but the layout has the font too small and in a place that looks like the page didn’t load correctly.  So far I haven’t been bombarded with adverts, and I’m sure that’s because they are trying to attract and keep new viewers, but that’s going to change in about a week I’m sure.  Here’s their official overview of the new design.
  • I was reading up on the Lone Ranger and discovered that the Green Hornet is actually related to him, by a nephew’s son I think.
  • Some headlines just get your attention – Why I can’t stop reading Mormon Housewife Blogs
  • Netflix spends 20 times more on postage than bandwidth
  • Impressive book art
  • Billion dollar yacht?
  • Forever lazy even thought of the bathroom issue (1:15)
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God as guard: Bank opens ‘lockless’ branch

MUMBAI: The United Commercial (UCO) Bank has opened the country’s first lockless branch at Shani Shinganapur in Maharashtra, even as the Centre has made hi-tech security mandatory for all nationalized and private sector banks. Shani Shinganapur is a small village in Ahmednagar district whose presiding deity is Lord Shani. More than 5,000 devotees visit the temple every day, while on weekends the number crosses the 1 lakh mark.

“We took note of the general belief and faith of the people. Ever since the most revered temple came into existence several years ago, the village has not witnessed a single crime. In fact, all houses in the entire village have no doors. We took the risk and started the lockless bank a week ago,” a senior bank official said.

Full Times of India Article

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