Archive for August, 2006

Hedgehog Humbles McDonalds


Seems that the McFlurry lids used in the UK happen to be a bad size for the local hedgehogs.  Seems they get their heads stuck in them, and becomes a trap that is fatal for them. Solution?  Mickey D’s is going to have to redesign the lids to make them smaller, so they can save [...]

BP Investigates for Gas price fixing


I guess this goes into the category of “score one of the little guys”. BP, already under investigation for potentially having manipulated the market price for propane is now under investigation for the same sort of thing in the gasoline business. The Commodities Futures Trading Commission is looking into alligations that BP atttempted to manipulate [...]

Hurricane Season


I guess I am lucky, because I don’t live in the south east, so I don’t have to deal with hurricanes.  But with the arrival of the first hurricane of the 2006 season, Hurricane Ernesto is starting things off slowly.  It isn’t even sure it wants to be a hurricane, going back and forth as [...]

Tom Cruise gone from Paramount…


Tom Cruise has been making moving for 14 years now. He is a big star with all the trimmings… but he is also weirder than even me! His outbursts on Oprah and some of the other weird things he has pulled off in the last little while have somewhat dimished his public persona… particularly things [...]

Snakes on a Plane


I love this movie! I love the premise, which is pretty much as rediculous as the title suggests, and unlike most movies, the title tells you pretty much everything you need to know about the movie. 30 million dollars later or so, and Samuel Jackson is sitting with a film that won’t make the big [...]

Talking Politics is Fun


Well, it’s is fun sometimes.  With the US midterm elections coming, and all sorts of bad things happening in the world, talking politics is pretty much standard water cooler stuff.  There is an online water cooler too, and I hang out and post sometimes over at DC Junkies, which is a chat board for all [...]