We’ve been dealing with the pocket-emptying effects of rising gas prices, new electric rates, and an increase in cab fare, but how would you feel about breaking the bank all for…a pizza? Now you can find out thanks to Manhattan restauranteur Nino Selimaj, who has apparently brought from the heavens a real “pie in the [...]
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I had gotten yet another email today with outraged relatives threatening to boycott the new Presidential Gold Dollars because supposedly they didn’t say “In God We Trust” on them. Well it seems they may of both been close to the truth… and a little to ready to click forward. In a minting error [...]
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The longtime treasurer of Alcona County in northeast lower Michigan has been removed from his job and charged with nine felonies for allegedly stealing county money to invest in the notorious online Nigerian Advance Fee Fraud Scheme, Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox announced today.
Thomas Katona, 56, was arraigned in Harrisville today after an investigation that [...]
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When a man like Bill Gates decides to cash out a few shares, banks must start running. The man makes more in one day then most people in their lifetimes, and a lot of CEOs will a year. And even with the millions of shares he’s cashed in, he still has over 900 [...]
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U2: From joshua trees to palm trees
You can’t blame U2’s concert promoter for wondering just how big the band’s Vertigo world tour could have been if it had simply kept on playing.
After all, not one ticket went unsold for the 131 shows on the trek, which began March 28, 2005, in San Diego and wrapped [...]
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News Release - Amazon Worldwide 2006 Holiday Facts
(Includes www.amazon.com, www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.co.jp, www.amazon.ca)
Amazon.com shipped more than 99 percent of orders in time to meet holiday deadlines worldwide.
On the peak day this season, Amazon’s worldwide fulfillment network shipped over 3.4 million units.
Amazon.com shipped to over 200 countries.
One of Amazon.com’s most remote shipments was Mission Impossible [...]
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Move over Santa. The red-clad philanthropist has lost the top slot on Forbes magazines’ list of the 15 richest fictional characters to defense contractor Oliver “Daddy” Warbucks.
Warbucks, a lieutenant general in the comic strip Little Orphan Annie, unseats Santa from the top position for the first time with an estimated net worth of $36.2 billion [...]
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The U.S. Mint is hoping that Martin Van Buren and Millard Fillmore can do what Susan B. Anthony and Sacagawea couldn’t - get Americans to use dollar coins.
The Mint on Monday revealed the design of the new U.S. $1 coin, which will be issued in a series that will eventually include the faces of each [...]
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UPDATE: So far, Boing Boing readers have promised to close BofA accounts totaling over $75,000 because of the way Bank of America treated a fraud victim like a criminal. Details below. In August Matthew Shinnick sold a pair of bikes on Craig’s list for $600. After shipping the bikes, he received a check for $2000, [...]
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Play FarCry, Earn $300K
Professional video gaming is slowly but surely nosing its way to the United States, as broadcasters begin to take notice, and prize money and sponsorships rise.
The big money is still in South Korea where, according to the technology and industry department of the Samsung Economic Research Institute, there are 240 professional gamers, [...]
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