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How would you like some chili-flavored candy? You might not, but apparently confectionary manufacturers feel that the US Hispanic population is an untapped market that would enjoy “salt, sugar and chili” versus “[s]our, tart tastes [that] might work for the Anglo.”
A Navy recruiting website neglected to renew its domain and it was quickly snapped up by a porn site. Now, over 4,000 other recruiting sites that link to are scrambling to update their links while the Navy negotiates to get back its name. I think the final quote in the story sums it up best: “for viewers who still come across NavyDallas.com, there’s plenty of pictures of seamen.” 🙂
The New York Times has an interesting story about experiments with transgenic goats excreting spider silk into their milk. If successful, large quantities of spider silk could be produced and used in a myriad of applications. Spider silk has a tensile strength five times greater than that of steel, so lightweight, extremely strong materials could be the result of these experiments.
This year’s crop of graduating seniors was born in 1984, a sobering fact for me, since I was 12 at the time and remember 1984 quite well. In fact, I consider it one of my favorite years of the ‘80s, a decade which is near and dear to my heart. To make me feel that much older, some of these seniors were asked some pop culture questions, and the results were pretty depressing.
By now, you’ve probably heard about the wildfires that raged in Colorado last week. Well, you’ll be surprised to hear who was responsible for one of them: “A U.S. Forest Service employee set the fire that scorched more than 100,000 acres in Colorado and forced thousands to evacuate by burning a letter from her estranged husband in the Pike National Forest,” where all fires were banned because of the extremely dry conditions. The employee admitted just yesterday that she started the fire, changing her original story that she came upon a fire and was unable to put it out. ‘bout as sharp as a bowlin’ ball…
And now for the Stupid Business Decision Of The Day: Home Depot stops doing business with the federal government. It’s probably not that big a deal to lose 384,520 potential customers, no, not that big a deal at all. What morons…
Jeff Parks’ goal is to “be the best light saber designer in the world.” Should we tell him that they’re just movies? Nah, then we couldn’t make fun of him.
Austin, Minnesota, AKA Spamtown has opened a Spam Museum.
As a follow up to the earlier post that the Beijing News posted a satirical story from The Onion as fact, the newspaper has now finally retracted the story and apologized. However, as I said before, they still don’t seem to get the idea of satire: “Some small American newspapers frequently fabricate offbeat news to trick people into noticing them, with the aim of making money. This is what the Onion does.”
The Detroit Red Wings have won back the Stanley Cup, defeating the Carolina Hurricanes 3-1 in Game 5 last night. Defenseman Nicklas Lidstrom received the Conn Smythe Trophy as MVP for the playoffs, becoming the first European to do so. Oh well, I was hoping for a better showing by the ‘canes, but Detroit was just too good a team.
