Sometimes cheaters do get caught. New York financier Bernie Madoff faces a possible life sentence after pleading guilty to 11 felony counts in one of history’s largest investment frauds. Unfortunately, this is just one of many recent stories about captains of industry and finance behaving badly with other people’s money. In fact there have been [...]
Fishermen claim to have spotted an amphibious creature resembling a human in the Caspian sea. Gafar Gasanof, the captain of the Baku, an Azeri trawler, told Iranian newspaper Zindagi: “The creature was swimming a parallel course near the boat for a long time. “At the beginning we thought it was a big fish, but then [...]
Lawyers for Roman Polanski, a fugitive for 30 years in a notorious sex case involving a 13-year-old girl, filed a request Tuesday to dismiss the charge against him because of prosecutorial and judicial misconduct. The motion alleges that a documentary about filmmaker released earlier this year revealed “a pattern of misconduct and improper communications” between [...]
Rebates are a marketing tool used by manufacturers to increase sales, by lowering the cost of a product in the eyes of a customer, without actually dropping the price on the shelf. The company makes available a rebate for those buying the product, let’s say, $20. You buy the product, send the company the filled-out [...]
McGruff the Crime Dog is going digital. The 26-year-old mascot is the centerpiece of the National Crime Prevention Council’s new campaign to “Take a Bite Out of Cyber Crime.” The Web site ByteCrime.org, formally launched Wednesday, offers a free, 36-page online brochure with tips. “The message remains the same: Do your part to prevent crime [...]
A superdollar is an almost perfect counterfeit American dollar bill. Although some would think the $2 bill is a counterfeit. Millions of dollars of the fake cash have been passed into circulation since its existence was first noticed over a decade ago. The money, officially known as Note Family – C14342, is thought to originate [...]
Do Not Knock list proposed by Massacusetts lawmakers here to push for a bill that would allow residents to sign up for a do-not-knock list keeping solicitors off their property. The legislation also would require background checks on sales crews. Representative Cleon Turner of Yarmouth says the bill is intended to make people feel safer [...]
The Internet has changed so much in the last few years. I can remember not to long ago when a person could safely chart his course through the Internet safely and easily, but now the Internet has changed for the worse for the uninformed user. Today, the Internet is full of spy ware, Internet hijackers, [...]
Your Cell Phones records can be purchased from a website for only $50 such as BestPeopleSearch.com A U.S. congressman said Friday that federal agencies were looking into whether telephone companies were sufficiently protecting consumers’ records amid concerns that Internet sites were selling cellphone call information. Rep. Edward Markey, a Democrat from Massachusetts, said the chairman [...]
There are Plymouth Rock commemorative plates. Plymouth Rock salt and pepper shakers. A Plymouth Rock woolen rug. Even a 49-year-old volume of ”The Bobbsey Twins at Plymouth Rock.” The eBay website abounds with kitschy knickknacks celebrating the hunk of granite at the edge of Plymouth Harbor, where the Mayflower Pilgrims supposedly landed in 1620. But [...]
Hey anyone know where I can get some Clerks 2 Ringtones or Jay and SIlent Bob ringtones? Writer/director Kevin Smith is currently in production on the sequel to the indie cult smash hit film Clerks. As you may know, he’s been documenting the whole experience with video diaries (two a week actually). Well this week’s [...]
Ashlee Simpson to Perform on Oprah Friday August 26 6:50 AM ET Ashlee Simpson, who was busted for a “Saturday Night Live” lip-synch gone awry, will perform on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” this fall, says her manager-father, Joe Simpson. Earlier in the week, Simpson had confirmed reports that Ashlee was in negotiations for a return [...]
A new Pew Internet Project report shows that about 93 million American internet users (68% of them) have had computer trouble in the past year that is consistent with problems caused spyware and viruses, though 60% of those who had problems were not sure where the problem originated. Some 25% of internet users have seen [...]
President Bush campaign acknowledged Thursday that it had doctored a photograph used in a television commercial to remove the president and the podium where he was standing. The campaign said the ad will be re-edited and reshipped to TV stations.
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