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5 Things To Think About When Talking About The Gulf Oil Spill

I’ve been hearing so much about the DeepWater Horizon oil spill over the past two weeks I wanted to point out a few simple things that may not have caught your attention: 1) Halliburton was celebrating on the Deepwater Horizon when the initial explosion hit: According to several news reports Halliburton (yes that Halliburton) had [...]

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Tue, May 11 2010 » misc. debris » Comments Off

Windows XP still an option as support ends today

With three options for users of Windows business still plans on using Windows XP as support officially ends today. Windows XP was introduced in October 2001 and became wildly popular as it showed dramatic improvement from Windows 2000, it’s predecessor.  Microsoft released Vista in January 2007 and saw immediate blow back from users.  Now with [...]

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Tue, April 14 2009 » misc. debris » Comments Off

Family Guy & Star Trek TNG

I just to make myself perfectly clear:  I am not a fan of Star Trek.  I am, however a fan of Family Guy.  For all of you fans of Star Trek TNG above is a shot of an upcoming Family Guy episode that has all of the cast reuniting. Peter and the Family head to [...]

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Tue, March 17 2009 » misc. debris » Comments Off

Bottled water contains chemical that acts like female hormone

Maybe people who teased you for being “such a girl” for drinking bottled water were right? A group at Frankfurt University in Germany have proof that the water in plastic bottles are contain female hormones. The research project that included the German Environmental Ministry also showed that some water was as contaminated as water from [...]

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Sat, March 14 2009 » misc. debris » Comments Off

Whopper Bar?

Is this the new layout of your local Burger King or will this go they way of the “Burger King Flame” perfume? photo credit: http://www.inquisitr.com/19632/whopper-bar/

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Thu, March 12 2009 » misc. debris » Comments Off