A Great Credit Score Cant Help You These Days

Categories: Culture, Featured

When I wake-up in the morning, I usually catch Good Morning America. I've noticed they've been really trying to catch stories about how Americans are still continuing to struggle in this recession.  Just like this story about 29 year old Kevin who had a great credit score but still had his credit limit lowered my credit card companies.
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Reviving Afghanistan with Skateboarding

Categories: Culture, Featured, Sports

In the Kite Runner, flying a kite was a sport that made children of Afghanistan happy before it was war torn country.  Today, one Australian man with charitable donations from various embassies are bringing back life to the children of Afghan through a different sport, skateboarding.
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Play Street Fighter on Youtube

Categories: Tech, Viral Videos

This man could be a genius. No need for Down, Up, Left, Right, A B across.  Instead, all you do is choose A, B, X, Y for you move while making your guy Guile fight either E. Honda, Dhalsim, or Balrog.
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McDnoalds Buckstar Coffee Pizza Huh in China

Categories: Cool Facts, Culture

No these aren't misspelled words these are the new counterfeit brands in a new shopping center in China.
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Error in Presidential Oath Shows Human Side

Categories: Cool Facts, Events

It was a great morning watching President Obama take his oath and be sworn in as the 44th President of the United States.  Even if Chief Justice Roberts didn't admit to reciting the oath incorrectly, something about that slight hesitation showed that Obama is human just like very American.
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Free Cosmetics a Result of a Class Action Settlement

Categories: Cool Facts, Events

Ladies, have you ever wondered why you couldn't get your Chanel, Givenchy, Dior, Lancome, or Estee Lauder cosmetics at a discounted price in department stores? These manufacturers made an agreement with stores not discount them. Thanks to a settlement, tomorrow you can get free cosmetics!
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Crash Twitpic & Sell the Photo to AP

Categories: Events, Featured, Social Media

It was a crazy day on Twitter yesterday.  @BrettDPayne SEO Director for the Chicago Tribune confirmed last night on Twitter that: @jkrums passed on selling his twitpic photo of US Airways Flight 1549 crash to @LATimes and sold it to @APNewsAlert instead.
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Indie 103.1 Got Shut Down by the Man

Categories: Cool Facts, Featured, Music

It was a sad morning on Twitter when @TeddRoman tweeted: Farewell to Indie 103.1 THE GREATEST radio station I have EVER had the pleasure of working.  DJ Tedd Roman gave minute by minute tweets about Indie103.1 shutting down and "removing from the broadcast airwaves."
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What Kind of Home Can 350,000 Buy In California And In Washington

Categories: Cool Facts, Culture

This past weekend I was watched 2 episodes of TLC's My First Home.  In the first episode was a couple lived in North Hollywood with a budget of 350,000. The second episode was a couple who lived in Washougal, Washington with a budget of 250,000.  Who got a better deal???
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Ten Excuses for Burning Your Boss or Co-Workers For A Whopper

Categories: Culture, Featured, Social Media

Last week people started adding Burger King's Whopper Sacrifice app to their profiles on Facebook.  If you unfriend ten of your friends you'll be rewarded with a free Whopper.  You could: unfriend your ex, that person you hated in high school that you added because everyone else did, maybe a co-worker, or your boss!
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Paper Planes Remix on Golden Globe Winner Slumdog Millionaire Soundtrack

Categories: Featured, Music

Last night Slumdog Millionaire took home the best categories you could win at the Golden Globes.  Best Motion Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay and one of my favorites: Best Original Score.
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Bicycle Clown Brings Smiles to War Torn Countries

Categories: Culture, Sports

One man has traveled to date: 56,169 Kilometers for 1,508 days to over 49 countries via a bicycle! No he's no Lance Armstrong and no he's not some cool hipster fixie on a journey. He's a man who lives a lifestyle traveling on a bike and performing as a clown in front of some of the most humble communities in the world.
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The Environment Hearts Coffee Cuffs

Categories: Style

If you buy a cup of coffee every morning during the work week that has a jacket, you're causing this much damage to the environment in a year: 5 jackets x 52 weeks = 260 consumed jackets most likely not recycled after use.  Hopefully these coffee cuffs will make you feel like you're utilizing it more.
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Dominos.com Is So New Media

Categories: Cool Facts, Featured, Social Media, Websites

I used to be a regular at Pizza Hut, but ever since they changed their pan crust it hasn't been the same.  I decided to switch over to Dominos and ordered a pizza online over the weekend.  Instead of closing the window after ordering, a gage popped up that told me step by step what status my pizza was at.
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2009 Kicks off With Ignorant Tweets

Categories: Cool Facts, Culture, Events, Featured, Social Media, Theories & Philosophies

Today I caught Rick Sanchez's segment on CNN.  He had reported on a Muslim American family being booted off a plane because they were discussing where the safest part of the plane to sit is: by the wing of the plane or the back of the plane. When Rick Sanchez wanted to know viewers' opinions, there were definitely some ignorant tweets.
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