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A survey of 172 office workers at Liverpool Street Station found that 71 per cent were willing to part with their password for a Marks & Spencer’s Easter Egg. Last year 90 per cent of office workers at Waterloo give away their passwords for a cheap pen, so perhaps things have improved slightly.
I’m sure this is common in the U.S., too, but hopefully not to this extent. Thanks to Yoleen for the tip.
I know you gotta have some rules to keep things in order, but this school’s rules are a bit nuts. You get 12 Reprimands and a $70 fine for viewing or possessing a rated “R” movie (wonder if that includes this movie). You get 18 reprimand, a $100 fine, 18 hours of community service, and a 50% scholarship reduction for entering the residence hall of somebody of the opposite sex (don’t ask what happens if you spend a night with that person, go to a motel room, or have a drink of wine — it gets messy).
Makes me glad I went to a public school. I may be going straight to hell, but at least I had a good time.
Have you seen BooBah? It’s a show that appears at 7:00 AM here on PBS, and if you thought the Teletubbies was a bad acid trip, wait until you’ve seen this show. I thought nothing could get more cosmic and out there than the TeleTubbies, but I was wrong.
Needless to say, my youngest daughter loves it. I don’t know what to think about it. I’ve yet to be able to sit down and watch a whole episode, let alone a few of them, to be able to make a decision about it, but I do know what I’ve seen freaks me out.
But I guess I’m not their target audience, so it’s doing its job. A quick search for the title on Google came up with an article slamming it, as well as a FAQ as to what the hell it is, as well as an interview with its creator.
Evan nearly gets duped by a well-done PayPal scam. This one is nasty, and luckily he didn’t get screwed.
I never knew kites were this dangerous:
Seven people were killed and more than 100 injured in Pakistan during the annual kite flying festival marking the arrival of spring, officials said today.
An 18-month-old girl’s throat was cut by a stray kite string while she was travelling with her parents on a motorbike, witnesses said, adding that she died on the spot.
Three people were electrocuted when metal wires they were using to fly or catch stray kites fell on live electric lines, and two people fell from roofs, hospital officials said.
Everybody’s a bit of a pack rat, and I’ve heard horror stories from folks whose moms keep everything under the sun — “You never know when you’re going to need it!” As they get older, they collect more stuff, and, looking at this lady’s collection of crap, she has to be about 900 years old. Link via b3ta.
How’d you like to be working that shift? The ranger also found women’s underwear at his feet as well as a crack pipe, porn, a bunch of narcotics, cocaine and possibly LSD. Full Story (see second item). Thanks Obscure.
Apparently by committing an act of war, you can be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize:
President George Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and the European Union were among known nominees for the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize as the nomination deadline expired Sunday.
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Norwegian lawmaker Jan Simonsen of the right-wing Party of Progress has nominated Bush and Blair several years in a row, including this year.
Simonsen wrote that by removing Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, they lessened the chance of a war using weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East and laid the foundation for the development of democracy.
They don’t have a prayer of winning, but the fact they were nominated says a lot about the nomination process. Full Story.