Monthly Archives: April 2012

Facebook Buys Instagram App for $1 Billion Dollars

Instagram is a photo sharing app for smart phones and it is actually pretty entertaining if I say so myself.  The app allows you to take a picture from the application and edit the picture using photo effects, which makes …

Posted in Entertainment | Comments Off on Facebook Buys Instagram App for $1 Billion Dollars

Undercover Cops Entrapping Students

I am all for responsible drug use. What is done to an individual’s body by that individual is their business. I think the United States spends an absurd amount of money each year funding a senseless drug war. A drug …

Posted in Economy, Education, General | Comments Off on Undercover Cops Entrapping Students

Rick Santorum is out! Romney, Move in!

Rick Santorum is finally out of the Presidential Campaign trail. Earlier this week, Mr. Santorum suspended his campaign. While Mr. Santorum is a very sincere and good hearted politician, he made the mistake of a rookie. He immersed himself and

Posted in General, Politics | Comments Off on Rick Santorum is out! Romney, Move in!

Google Self Driving Car

Google’s video showing a blind man taking a ride to a Taco Bell in a self-driving car was legal, according to Google and the police department which monitored the test.

A spokeswoman for the California Highway Patrol saw it differently, …

Posted in General | Comments Off on Google Self Driving Car

Animals Displayed Without Skin

Naked animals may not cause even a blush, but a look under the covers of our four-legged friends (and finned ones) is a revelation.

Gunther von Hagens, creator of the controversial yet wildly popular “Body Worlds” exhibit of dead humans, …

Posted in General | Comments Off on Animals Displayed Without Skin

One Laptop Per Child Doesn’t Yield Results

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is a non-profit organization that prides itself on attempting to advance the education of disadvantaged children in poor/third-world countries. They do this by providing each child with a laptop. They don’t exactly give out Apple

Posted in Economy, Education, General, Politics, Science and Technology, World News | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on One Laptop Per Child Doesn’t Yield Results

Electronic Arts Voted Worst Company In America

Just a few weeks ago Electronic Arts and its employees must have been feeling pretty good, having just released the ending to one of the most critically acclaimed and financially successfully franchises in gaming history.  Then people started beating the …

Posted in Entertainment, General, Science and Technology | Comments Off on Electronic Arts Voted Worst Company In America

Bully Receives It’s PG-13 Rating

In this country we have our fair share of useless boards and committees, but none of them are garner more attention than the MPAA.  As the chief organization responsible for rating movies, the MPAA has a very vague set of …

Posted in Entertainment, General | Comments Off on Bully Receives It’s PG-13 Rating

Facebook buys Instagram for $1 billion

Today, Facebook bought popular photo-share network Instagram for $1 billion as a combination of cash and stocks.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg said in a blog post earlier that with 30 million users, Instagram has the largest audience of any startup …

Posted in General | Comments Off on Facebook buys Instagram for $1 billion

U.S. has warmest March in recorded history

This past March been the warmest since the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration started keeping records in 1895. Though because I live in Florida, I can’t really tell whether it is too hot anymore. It almost always feels like it …

Posted in General | Comments Off on U.S. has warmest March in recorded history