This website made me laugh today: BillionairesForBush.com.
“Widen the income gap!“
Archive for July, 2008
#24 Once Upon A Time In America (1984)
Director: Sergio Leone
Actors: Robert De Niro, James Woods, Joe Pesci, Danny Aiello
Movie trailer:
Social networking site Facebook has finally decided to take legal actions against its many knockoff sites, and the popular German knockoff StudiVZ was the first to be sued. StudiVZ was started shortly after Facebook’s launch and it was later acquired by the Holtzbrinck publishing group for a reported $112 million in 2006.
I’ve been waiting for this to happen since a long time, because the German site really looks and feels almost exactly like Facebook. It’s a perfect duplicate, which is why I really don’t understand why Facebook hasn’t sued them earlier. Well, now they did it. Looking forward to seeing how much StudiVZ will have to pay to Facebook for damages and to what extent it will have to be changed now.
Within the Southern Desert National Museum in Arizona there is one of the largest stockpiles of tyres in the United States. There are millions of discarded tyres lying around. The area belonged to a company that had been going to recycle the tyres but which went bankrupt when the state of Arizona shut it down due to breaches of fire regulations.
An attorney from the state of Arizona presented an estimate that, if a fire broke out there, it would continue to burn for about ten years. In 1999, there was a similar case somewhere in Ohio and it took 250 firemen 5 days to get it under control; and it took another nine years (as well as millions of dollars) to clean things up.
Tom talks Scientology:
#25 GoodFellas (1990)
Director: Martin Scorsese
Actors: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent
Movie trailer:
Poem:
Ist es nicht genial
zu sehen,
wie die Dinge
sich drehen?
… into words. I’ve uncovered one of the biggest cover-ups in human history and you will be the first to get in on the scoop: August 1st, 2008.
Later in the year there will be another revelation coming your way, namely the long-forgotten story of arctic explorer N., who thought he could live in the endless ice, but, sadly, he was mistaken.
Ein stechender Blick, wie bereits erwähnt. Als Kleinkind entdeckte er früh seine Begeisterung für die Farbe weiß und für die unerbittliche Kälte des Nordens.
Did you know that Seth MacFarlane, creator of Family Guy and American Dad, is the highest-paid television writer? After two or three years of negotiations he reached a $100 million deal with Fox to keep Family Guy and American Dad running on Fox until 2012. Didn’t know that? Well, now you do.
What a nice idea, and I haven’t thought of it… Damn! A small business in Brooklyn is making bubble calendars with a bubble to pop every day. Isn’t it fun to get up in the morning knowing that there is a new bubble to burst again? The calendars sell for $50 each, which I believe should result in a $45+ profit per calendar. As said, nice idea. Not mine, unfortunately. Here’s the link.
