Yahoo Finance reports that Amazon is planning to pay self-published authors by the number of pages of their books that Amazon customers read. 3 Observations About This Story 1. We suspect you’ll earn more writing 250 one-page books than one… Read More ›
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Pizza Hut Introduces New Item That Doesn’t Involve Stuffing Crust With Something Ridiculous
The Verge reports that Pizza Hut has introduced a pizza box in Hong Kong that turns into a movie projector… once you put your smart phone in the pizza box. The boxes offer four different movies… While we don’t know… Read More ›
Horse With Misspelled Name Wins Triple Crown
American Pharoah won the Belmont Stakes today, which means its the first horse to win the Triple Crown since Affirmed in 1978. But whoops, the owners misspelled the word “Pharaoh” when they registered the horse. Here are 3 other names… Read More ›
3 More Lengthy Password Reminder Questions We Would Guess
Yesterday we wrote about a study indicating that lying on your pSsword reminders may make your account easier to hack. Here are 3 more answers we guess some of you are using. 1. Mother’s Maiden name = maiden. (That would… Read More ›
Time To Change Yout First Born’s Name From “Bart Simpson”
CBC reports that a recent study indicates giving fake answers to password reminder questions may actually make your online accounts easier to hack. That’s in part because people are picking easy to guess fake answers. 3 Easy To Guess Very… Read More ›
“Thanks For Stealing My Identity, Now I’ll Borrow Yours!”
Yahoo Finance reports that an Albuquerque woman who lost her driver’s license, resulting in her identity being stolen by a San Francisco woman, found and tailed the woman. She took a bunch of photographs of the identity thief, and has… Read More ›
3 More Slogans We Propose For Olive Garden Breadstick Sandwiches
Yesterday, we wrote about how the Olive Garden is introducing a twist on its popular breadsticks. No they are not twisting the breadsticks and sprinkling them in cinnamon. That might be a better idea than what they are planning: breadstick… Read More ›
Women Wins Over $250,000 In Sweepstakes, Then Wins Book Deals
Yahoo Finance reports that a Canadian woman, who recommends not spending more than an hour or two a day entering sweepstakes, has won over $250,000 in prizes in sweepstakes. She has been winning prizes for at least 34 years, and… Read More ›
Is Yelp For Sale? We Have Reviews For Potential Buyers.
Yahoo Finance reports that Yelp is reportedly seeking strategic alternatives, which means the company may be for sale. Hmmm… we wonder how this will play out since Yelp has a 2.5 star rating on Yelp. To help potential buyers, we’ve… Read More ›
The Shocking Truth About The Lack Of Harmful Bacteria In Your Beard
Yesterday we wrote about a TV news show that swabbed a few beards and concluded beards containpoop bacteria. Slate reports that this non-scientific click-bait adventure means nothing. Because real studies say so and everyone probably has this bacteria on their… Read More ›