With the holidays in full swing and the economy lagging a bit behind, businesses both small and large have begun looking into alternatives to the normal holiday essentials that many employees have come to rely on: the corporate booze party where co-workers come together in friendship, and the copier room always...
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Tags: christmas, economy, unemployment
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New York City--Having been kicked out of various parks, bridges, and underpasses across New York City, the two-month-old Occupy Wall Street movement has decided to select a new location for their efforts: Macy's Herald Square.
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Tags: Black Friday, drag queen, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, new york city, occupy wall street
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While most of these rumor hoaxes have been shut down thanks to actual news reports, Snopes.com , and basic common sense, there are others that still believe the day of Facebook charges is coming. Due to this unwavering belief, Facebook c0-creator and CEO Mark Zuckerberg released a statement earlier today to those rumor-millers.
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The improbable has happened. After two years of lurking in the shadows of Facebook, MySpace showed the world that it was, somehow, still around this week by being sold by News Corp. for around $35 million. MySpace itself has begun migrating its application to Facebook, emailing a like for users to "like" them...
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Tags: facebook, forums, myspace, news corp, rupert murdoch, social networking
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Huntington, NY: In the world of the internet, he or she who has the most free toys, wins. One savvy techno-whiz, Paul Shenker, took this idea to the outer limits when trying to organize the best free-based car stereo system on the planet, no matter how much he would have to pay up-front. "I've...
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Tags: car systems, geeks, howard stern, nobex radio companion, overkill, pandora, SiriusXM, technology
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Hollywood/Chicago: The beat goes on for Charlie Sheen. Now content with taking only the drug known as ‘Charlie Sheen’, Sheen has traded his addiction to drugs and hookers in for an addiction to caffeine and further lunacy.
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Tags: charlie sheen, cliche, coffee, crackhead, jumping the shart, winning
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Las Vegas, NV: In an effort to lock up more of the elite fighters in the sport of mixed martial arts(MMA), Dana White and company haved officially purchased Showtime's Strikeforce, a non-pay-per-view fight night that, unlike Affliction, undercut UFC viewers on nights that both companies had a fight card.
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Tags: anti-trust, arlovski, dana white, fedor, MMA, showtime, strikeforce, UFC, zuffa
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Los Angeles, CA: For anyone who has ever seen the show "Two-and-a-Half Men", one of the most visually enduring aspects of Charlie Sheen's character is, besides the booze, probably drugs, promiscuous sex, love-hate releationship with his family, and everything else that made this show more a Charlie Sheen documentary than sitcom, was his bowling...
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Tags: charlie sheen, crackhead, epic, jumping the shark, memes, two and a half men
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Odessa, FL: John Higginbottom, 30, just celebrated his 10th year working for Wal-Mart and could not be happier. To mark the occasion, he purchased a dozen cupcakes from his store's bakery and shared them with several employees in the break room on Tuesday afternoon. The cupcakes were gone in a matter of minutes...
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Tags: florida, minimum wage, wal-mart
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New York, NY: In a surprising internet business deal that doesn't have to do with phone applications or Facebook, long-time email hosting system and chatroom pedophile nest America On-Line recently agreed to buy the expansive news editorial website, Huffington Post, for $315 million. The Inept Owl currently awaits its own call.
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Tags: america online, cha-ching, huffington post, internet advertising, internet sales, it's our turn
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