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Jun 29, 2007 in Digg, Odd News
Using just a little bit of math, the 11 cities I tracked represented 8,790 person-hours of line-waiting. With 140 Apple stores nationwide (not even counting AT&T stores, by the way), this represents 7.8% of all stores. A tiny bit of extrapolation later and we have 111872 person-hours spent waiting in line
Feb 25, 2007 in Observations, Odd News
I have to salute the producers of “How It’s Made.” Where most TV shows would cheerfully elect for gratuitous nudity, they have taken the opposite approach.
I was just watching the episode where they were making mannequins. Now you can imagine the horrors that could have occurred in showing this process. Thankfully, someone had the common decency and the moral wherewithal to protect the poor, innocent children from this.
They blurred out the mannequin boobs.
Mercifully I, along with an entire generation of impressionable minds, was spared the horrors of seeing a completely naked blob of Styrofoam that vaguely resembled a pair of boobs. At last, someone is thinking of the children.
Jan 11, 2007 in Digg, Odd News
A man has been fined after he was arrested at Hong Kong airport attempting to smuggle a crocodile, 6 snakes, 11 flying squirrels and 46 turtles and tortoises through the airport in his luggage, authorities said. The man was apprehended late on Monday, when the crocodile was discovered in his bag.
I don’t even know where to begin with this one…