The creator of the Pop-Up Ad doesn't like them any longer and other eye-catching headlines
Ethan Zuckerman was working for Tripod.com back in the late 1990s when he came up with the idea of pop-up ads. At the time they were using banner ads and customers complained when their ads showed in the banner of pages with sexual content. Now Zuckerman works at MIT and is apologetic for his creation.
A barber from the Quad Cities area (don't ask me to explain why a group of five cities is known by that moniker) is going to enjoy free food from Kentucky Fried Chicken for life, after he cut an amazing likeness of Colonel Sanders in the back of the head of one of his clients.
There's an OSU in Oregon and another in Oklahoma (as well as Ohio). But apparently someone at Walmart got confused about which is which and sent some Oklahoma State journals to a location near Oregon State.
In Sacramento, a woman who was to be married this month but had to cancel the wedding due to the death of her fiancé can't get the owner of the venue to refund her money. More on this in my next blog entry.
Outgoing Texas Governor Rick Perry has been indicted on charges he misused his veto power in trying to force the District Attorney of Travis County to resign after she was convicted on drunk driving charges. He calls the indictment an "...abuse of power."
Forty FBI agents were reportedly going door to door in Ferguson, Missouri to investigate the shooting death of Michael Brown on Saturday. On Sunday smoke canisters are being fired to disperse protestors in advance of the midnight curfew.
Kendall Jenner insists she didn't throw money at a waitress who followed her out of the restaurant where she'd just dined, without paying her tab. The waitress says Kendall was rude. Who do you believe? Do you care?
Cooper Union is a privately funded college in New York that hasn't charged students any amount for tuition since 1902. Now they are going to charge up to 50% of the cost of educating a student each year, depending on their ability to pay. Students and faculty at the school have filed papers to get a judge to stop the college from charging tuition.
Check this out:
That's a fan who ran onto the pitch in the match between West Ham and Tottenham and took a free kick. He actually did better than the player who wound up taking the free kick when order was restored, as Christian Eriksen sent his effort sailing high over the crossbar.
The Detroit Tigers handed out 10,000 bobblehead figures of their star Miguel Cabrera, honoring him for his back to back MVP awards. Problem is, the bobbleheads identified him as the National League MVP.
A man in New Jersey was flying a flag outside his home that some claimed was an ISIS flag. It has since come down. He says it reads "There is only one God, Allah, and the prophet Muhammad is his messenger."
The five foot rat snake that ate a ceramic egg while foraging in a henhouse is recovering from surgery to remove the fake egg.
None of the three big films released this weekend could topple those turtles from the top spot at the box office. Top five films for the weekend were:
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - $28.4 million
Guardians of the Galaxy - $24.7 million
Let's Be Cops - $17.7 million (new this week)
The Expendables 3 - $16.2 million (new this week)
The Giver - $12.8 million (new this week)
The new indie film "The Trip to Italy" won the per screen battle, bringing in over $23,000 per screen showing on only three screens.
A barber from the Quad Cities area (don't ask me to explain why a group of five cities is known by that moniker) is going to enjoy free food from Kentucky Fried Chicken for life, after he cut an amazing likeness of Colonel Sanders in the back of the head of one of his clients.
There's an OSU in Oregon and another in Oklahoma (as well as Ohio). But apparently someone at Walmart got confused about which is which and sent some Oklahoma State journals to a location near Oregon State.
In Sacramento, a woman who was to be married this month but had to cancel the wedding due to the death of her fiancé can't get the owner of the venue to refund her money. More on this in my next blog entry.
Outgoing Texas Governor Rick Perry has been indicted on charges he misused his veto power in trying to force the District Attorney of Travis County to resign after she was convicted on drunk driving charges. He calls the indictment an "...abuse of power."
Forty FBI agents were reportedly going door to door in Ferguson, Missouri to investigate the shooting death of Michael Brown on Saturday. On Sunday smoke canisters are being fired to disperse protestors in advance of the midnight curfew.
Kendall Jenner insists she didn't throw money at a waitress who followed her out of the restaurant where she'd just dined, without paying her tab. The waitress says Kendall was rude. Who do you believe? Do you care?
Cooper Union is a privately funded college in New York that hasn't charged students any amount for tuition since 1902. Now they are going to charge up to 50% of the cost of educating a student each year, depending on their ability to pay. Students and faculty at the school have filed papers to get a judge to stop the college from charging tuition.
Check this out:
That's a fan who ran onto the pitch in the match between West Ham and Tottenham and took a free kick. He actually did better than the player who wound up taking the free kick when order was restored, as Christian Eriksen sent his effort sailing high over the crossbar.
The Detroit Tigers handed out 10,000 bobblehead figures of their star Miguel Cabrera, honoring him for his back to back MVP awards. Problem is, the bobbleheads identified him as the National League MVP.
A man in New Jersey was flying a flag outside his home that some claimed was an ISIS flag. It has since come down. He says it reads "There is only one God, Allah, and the prophet Muhammad is his messenger."
The five foot rat snake that ate a ceramic egg while foraging in a henhouse is recovering from surgery to remove the fake egg.
None of the three big films released this weekend could topple those turtles from the top spot at the box office. Top five films for the weekend were:
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - $28.4 million
Guardians of the Galaxy - $24.7 million
Let's Be Cops - $17.7 million (new this week)
The Expendables 3 - $16.2 million (new this week)
The Giver - $12.8 million (new this week)
The new indie film "The Trip to Italy" won the per screen battle, bringing in over $23,000 per screen showing on only three screens.
posted by me at 8:49 PM
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