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» Do You Miss George W Yet? Check This Billboard Out!

Out along Interstate 35, near Wyoming, Minnesota, stands this billboard.  It’s not a hoax.  It’s not a Photoshop creation.  No one knows who owns the billboard, but, someone misses George W a lot. Read the whole story! VISIT: “Along the Merry Way.” Good reading everyday…

» Video – Super Bowl XLIV Commercial with Leno, Letterman, and Winfrey

Last Thursday Jay Leno slipped into the Ed Sullivan Theater disguised in sunglasses and a mustache to video tape a 15 minute commercial along with Oprah Winfrey and rival David Letterman. The commercial was a promo for Letterman’s late night TV show “The Late Show. In the commercial Oprah Winfrey is seated on a couch Read More… »

» Waterboarding For Children – Father Waterboards Daughter (update 2/9/10)

Update: 2/9/10 This incident actually occurred in Washington State about 15 miles south of Seattle. Sgt. Tabor, the girl’s father is currently confined to base and living with his unit. He was busted by police as he wandered his neighborhood, apparently drunk, in early morning hours, and had made threats to his neighbors of breaking Read More… »

» First Test Flight of the Boeing 747-8 Transport

Ready for its first test flight is the Boeing 747-8 Transport.  It’s the transport version of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.  Boeing expects to make its first delivery of the 747-8 Transport by the end of the year, and the first delivery of the Dreamliner at the end of 2011. The first test flight of the Read More… »

» PLUTO’s New Images Of A Changing World

Pluto, once called the ninth planet, but, recently downgraded to a dwarf-planet, has been revealed to be a dynamic changing world.  First photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1994, these new images photographed by Hubble in 2003 and 2004, were only a few pixels in size. astronomer Marc Buie of the Southwest Research Institute Read More… »

» Copyscape: Has your work been Plagiarized? Find Out!

Plagiarism?  Has your work been Plagiarized?  Would you like to find out?  Here’s a quick way to check your online content.  ”Copyscape” allows you to insert your article’s URL into their system and then it automatically checks to see is someone has stolen your content and republished it on the web. Click the logo above Read More… »

» LOST Returns – Let’s Catch Up Where We Left Off

The ABC series “LOST” returns for its sixth and final season.  I had watched it, here and there, over the last five years, but, so I could get a clear picture of what the show was about I went and viewed all previous 90 episodes.  You can view all 90 episodes from Season’s 1 -5 Read More… »

» IRS e-File Pin Problems: An EZ FIX

If you use e-File to file your 2009 taxes you are required to give the amount of your 2008 Adjusted Gross Income (AGI), OR, the five-digit-pin number you selected last year.  Without one or the other you can not file using the e-File System. For me, I can never seem to relocate this information from Read More… »

» I Love Lucy – Vivian Vance (Ethel Mertz) Archive Found

I have a number of favorite newspapers I read everyday online.  My favorite is the San Francisco Chronicle.  (Gosh, those were heavy when I was a newspaper delivery boy in SF) The Chronicle (www.sfgate.com) is always a treasure-trove of knowledge.  Yesterday, January 20, 2010, I found an article, complimented by 120 photographs, of how its Read More… »

» Instant Print Coupon: Peet’s Coffee – Save $2

This money saving coupon is current through 1/19/2010.  It is an instant-print coupon.  Save money! $2 off Peet’s coffee. Click the picture to get the coupon! Donate $10 to the Red Cross to be charged to your cell phone bill by texting “HAITI” to “90999.”