The Disney Garbage That Never Made It To Your Neighborhood
It turns out, though, that utopia kind of sucks: the trash tubes ended up only getting as far as tiny Roosevelt Island.
Category Archives: Interesting
A Glimpse At Facebook In Its Third Month- Early Monetization Plans
How quickly did Facebook take off? Digiday has a copy of Facebook’s first media kit, put together by Eduardo Saverin in April 2004. The company, still known as “thefacebook.com”, and limited to students of a handful of schools, had first launched at Harvard three months earlier, on February 4, 2004. Two additional schools were added…
We’re Too Cheap To Pay For Spam Followers. Won’t You Follow Us For Free?
We must be doing something wrong. Whenever we see a new follower show up on our twitter account(@givinguptheship) with a suggestive photograph and an explicit web address, we block it and report as spam. Apparently, celebrities will pay $18 for 1000 of these! Jason Feifer of Fast Company reports in a fascinating article in which…
You Can’t Shout ‘This Is It’ In A Crowded Movie Theater Showing ‘The Dark Knight Rises’
44-year-old David Martin Escamillo was drunk, and he was angry. He had just gotten into an altercation with another moviegoer. He stood up in the aisle and shouted “This Is It”, triggering a stampede of the audience out the door of the midnight showing of “The Dark Knight Rises”. Wary after last week’s movie theater…
Woman Gives Birth To Twins- Each On His Own Highway
It has been said that life is highway. For two twins born to Siobhan Anderson, the beginning of life is a highway. Mrs. Anderson and her husband were en route to the hospital, when the twins could wait no longer. The first was born on a stretcher on the side of the Southern State Parkway,…