Surfing The Web So You Don't Have To
Another from Obscure Store:
Clare Kimmerle, 79, has worked at the McDonald’s near her home since it opened in 1970. She has never, in 32 years and 10 months of employment, flipped a burger. Never eaten a Big Mac. (Too filling.) Never worked the drive-through or worn a headset. “It would give me a headache,” she says. She started at $1.75 an hour , and now earns closer to $12.
Honestly, she hasn’t missed much. The food there tastes like crap. Full Story.
Those wacky Brits. Most of the folks at this site are Brits. The site has about 30 years-worth of the best streaking incidents and people, including their 17-page hall of fame. But none is as famous as Mark Roberts, who has a couple dozen incidents documented on the site.
According to this Wired article, Disney has invested in Sonicblue, the company that makes Tivo-like devices branded ReplayTV, though they’re all technically called PVRs. What’s funny about this is that Disney is one of several firms that are suing Sonicblue. Why don’t you just buy them out, Disney, and then call everything good? Or least have your investment and legal divisions on the same page.
From Obscure Store:Andrew Nierman, 29, has won the International High IQ Society’s first “World’s Smartest Person” competition. The title is “pretty funny,” says Nierman, adding: “The smartest person in the world probably wouldn’t bother entering this contest. I just thought it would be fun.” Full Story.
Their site probably won’t work until Saturday, but what does it say about society when they are doing a swimsuit issue? Actually, in reality, the issue, while it will have a sultry lady on the cover, will feature swim suits and how they’ve evolved over the years. Will it outsell the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue that hits stands this month? Doubtful, but it will be interesting to see the traditional yellow-bordered magazine with a scantily-clad woman on the cover.
A couple days ago I mentioned that Kevin Mitnick was going back online for the first time in 8 years. Things are a bit different than back when he was romping around on the Web. “Don’t be freaked out by advertising,” he was told. “It’s everywhere. So is pornography.” Full story here.
From b3ta: Spencer Harrison has created a new form of exercise. He writes, “it’s a cross-breed of yoga, breakdancing, climbing and gymnastics in a domestic setting.”
Basically that means clambering around your furniture, like you do when you’re drunk. That said, there are some pretty impressive moves on show.
In case you haven’t read it, Pete “I was only doing research” Townshend’s bizarre treatise on Internet smut is at the Smoking Gun (this is a follow up to a previous story).
Some folks just have the roughest lives ;-). Leif Ueland wrote about the six-month bus trip he took in 1998, documenting Playboy’s search for the Playmate of the Millennium — during which he was dragged to strip joints, obliged to photograph topless women and forced to sleep with two tryouts. He worried that the Playboy job would turn him into a “pig,” but he just ended up not wanting to write about sex anymore. Full Story (link from Obscure Store).
I doubt it, but folks are trying to make it happen. Hawaii has a group of folks that want to become independent again, and there’s talk of other states as viable options as well.