Any Takers?

AOL is asking for 25,00 employees to voluntarily lose their jobs. This is due to the company's restructuring plan and one way or another, they will have to eliminate 25,00 jobs. So if you sacrifice yourself, you'll get a larger severance package than those who stay and are later laid off by force.

Not So Hot

If you go on your facebook today and see a picture of a bikini clad woman asking you if you want t see something hot DO NOT CLICK!!! She is a worm and if you click her, she'll get posted on your wall and initiate a chain of reactions on your wall and your friends walls.

Non-Smoking Mac People

Here's a good reason to quit smoking: it may shorten the warenty on your Mac. Two Mac users recently reported that their Apple warenties were voided. When one of them went to the Apple store to complain, an advisor informed him that the malfunction was due to the pesence of cigarette smoke in the house. It hardly seems fair, but if something like a computr can't handly the smoke, then it's most likely neither can you.

Righ Rez YouTube

YouTube just got a lot more awesome. As announced at the TV conference this week, users will now be able to watch videos in full 1080p resolution. Currently, the highest video quality on the sight is 720p. So yay!

Facebook and Pancakes

Facebook and pancakes have set a man free from jail! Amazing what good breakfast and modern technology can do, right? 19 year old Rodney Bradford was arrested for robbery and sentenced to jail for 12 days until a facebook status update cleared his name. It was said that the status was posted from his home within minutes of the robbery so obviously he couldn't have done it. So what does this have to do with pancakes??? The New York Times said that Rodney's status was indecipherable street-slang reading "On the phone with this fat chick, where are my IHOP?"
So . . . . . . . . . . how 'bout them Yankees?

Educated Santas

This week on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me!, the NPR news quiz my dad always listens to on Sundays, a new and rather odd story came to the table. An education course for department store Santas is now in progress. As most of the men employed for this job are older and maybe not educated in the lingo of today's youth, they can take courses before they go on the job. Although they may feel cooler about themselves as humans, i don't really see how this would help. It's not like they're the ones Christmas shopping.

Club Hackers

Hundreds of Facebook groups have been hijacked by an activist group called "Control Your Info." If your facebook group's administrator quits, the role is open to anyone. This is an enormous safety problem because the new administrator can change the groups info at will and view personal information. So, for instance, your simple knitting club could show up as a hate group with you as a member. So watch out!

Rent the Runway

Okay, time to get honest here. How many women a month buy an expensive dress from a high end store, wear it out on the town, and then return it? So what if you could do that completely guilt free? Well Rent The Runway is now making that completely possible with their netflix -esque clothes service. You can pick out a dress from a high end fashion designer, and then it will arrive on your doorstep free of charge. You can then wear it out on the town and send it back! The one drawback is, well, it's kind of like using Hotel sheets. How many other creepy people have slept on these before me???????

Rockey Mountain HIGH

Skiing is no longer the only reason to visit Colorado. Yesterday, 72% of the mountain town population voted the de-criminalization of marijuana. This new law permits adults over age 21 to carry up to an ounce of weed. But, over posession is still a crime and police will continue to crack down on violators.

TWITTER PEEK

Like Twitter? Love it so much it's all you do? Well you're in luck! there is now a hand held device devoted intirely to twitter called the Twitter Peek. It send, reads, and replies to twitter. . . . and nothing else. This useless device will cost 99 dollars plus an 8 dollar monthly subscription fee. Now, if your mobile phone can do the exact same thing as well as making calls, then why the heck would you need this? The only thing cool about the Twitter Peek is the fact that it is the first device devoted solely to twitter.

Mad Young Teens

So because of this year's riveting World Series, that millions of people are watching and enjoying, the other huge amount of the population (especially all us theater geek that down really care about baseball) is raving mad about the cancellation of their weekly TV shows. This week, So You Think You Can Dance, and Glee among others were canceled to accomidate the population of baseball fans. And therefore, i have been deprived of Gleefulness for the past two weeks. :(

AT&T vs. Verizon

You know those Verizon Wireless commercials you see all the time that accuse AT&T of not having coverage? The add depict people walking around with maps above their heads that show no coverage and say "there's a map for that". Well, AT&T is now suing Verizon for those adds because they are deceptively making people think that AT&T doesn't get coverage in areas where there is no 3G, which is most untrue. They are asking for a restraining order against Verizon and the add.

Google Music

Google announced last week that it will be creating a new music service. Music based searches of songs will now include audio previews of songs and links to music sites. Another cool think is the fact that it will now be able to recognise fragments of lyrics in case you can't remember a song's title.