Jeremy Taylor
Billionaire Gives $20,000 Tip For Directions
It can be pretty stressful when a stranger asks you for directions. Suddenly this person you don’t know is putting their future in your hands by requesting you immediately and accurately reference the map in your brain.
But before you tell the next lost person who approaches you that you’re “actually not from around here,” consider this: The stranger with a poor sense of direction could be a gener
Vietnamese Airline Fined For In-Flight Bikini Show
The flight from Ho Chi Minh City to Nha Trang only takes about an hour. That’s not nearly long enough for a movie, but the folks at VietJetAir were able to come up with a far superior way to keep their passengers entertained.
Michael Jackson’s Tiger ‘Thriller’ Has Passed Away
One of Michael Jackson‘s many idiosyncrasies was his love for exotic animals. And since the late music legend was sort of the rich madman type, he kept a menagerie of giraffes, flamingos, orangutans, elephants and tigers on his notorious Neverland Ranch.
Sadly, one of the tigers — who Jackson had named ‘Thriller’ after his seminal 1982 album — has passed away.
See the Other Things Facebook Changed on Your Profile
Earlier this week, Facebook changed all the default email addresses on its users’ profiles to a brand new address, @facebook.com. Sneaky yes, but was it really that big of a deal? Probably not since very few people are ever going to navigate through a Facebook profile to get an email address when it’s so much easier and more reliable to use Facebook’s internal messaging system.
However, the folks
Do You Follow the Local News? — Survey of the Day
When you think about “the news” do you think of war, national unemployment figures and President Obama? Because in local news, there’s so much more, ranging from crime to weather to the latest on the school board.
Do You Approve of the Federal Government? — Survey of the Day
While approval of all tiers of government has fallen over the past decade, it seems Americans are most dissatisfied with the federal government.
When Do You Plan On Retiring? — Survey of the Day
Americans are eligible to begin receiving Social Security benefits at age 62. But more and more workers are planing to retire well after that.
Should the Post Office Eliminate Saturday Delivery? — Survey of the Day
Congress is currently considering a postal service overhaul which would eventually eliminate Saturday delivery in a bid to make the postal service more cost efficient.
How would that go over with the public?
What’s Your Favorite Tech Brand? — Survey of the Day
When it comes to tech brands, which company is king?
Barack Obama Is Not Very Good at Three-Point Shots
Barack Obama is a basketball guy. He played the sport in high school, where his teammates called him “Barry O’Bomber” because of his tendency to take a lot of shots. But from the looks of this video from a recent White House ‘Shoot for Strength’ event, Obama hasn’t been practicing his shooting lately.
Heroic 13-Year-Old Drives School Bus After Driver Passes Out
13-year-old Jeremy Wuitschick got to drive, something most kids his age only dream about doing. However, the circumstances in which the seventh-grader took the wheel were far from ideal.
‘Titanic’ in Super 3D Will Give You the Ultimate Shipwreck Experience
Have you seen ‘Titanic 3D’ yet? If you haven’t, you might just want to wait until the film is re-released again, this time in Super 3D. We were able to obtain some footage of what ‘Titanic’ looks like when treated with this new technology, and let’s just say you’ll never see the movie in the same way again.