Slumdog Soldier - A reality television series that offers the winner the chance to serve as an Indian army peacekeeper is attracting huge numbers of aspiring soldiers, The Australian reported Friday.
Sounds thrilling. Whats second prize? A chance to live in a real life Haitian village?
Don't forget to update your status - A Florida teenager was arrested late Sunday after burglarizing a home and forgetting to log off of his MySpace account on one of the home’s computers, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported.
Why can't anyone go about their daily business these days without updating the rest of us to their status? You're not that interesting. What could he possibly have had to say? "Just committed a first class B&E, LOL." I just hope for his sake they get wifi or at least 3g service in prison. Wouldn't want to miss out on any potential updates or tweets from the big house like, "Mush again for dinner" or "anal rape is the worst."
Google Starts War (no really, a real one) - First, Google Search. Then, Google News. Now . . . Google Wars? Google Maps is fixing an error in its map of Central America that gave Nicaraguan commanders an excuse to invade a disputed area also claimed by Costa Rica.
The bigger question, does anyone actually care what goes on in Nicaragua and Costa Rica? Apparently not since we've just collectively decided that it can be the Beta testing ground for viral web wars. And who knew Nicaragua would take the internet so seriously? Most people just sound off on message boards and comment sections annonymously when they're instigated, apparenly Nicaraguans are just more cutthroat than the rest of us.
Fired over Facebook - In what labor officials and lawyers view as a ground-breaking case involving workers and social media, the National Labor Relations Board has accused a company of illegally firing an employee after she criticized her supervisor on her Facebook page.
Shit you can get fired for that? Good thing I only gripe about my job on my personal blog. I'd be in some serious trouble.
Hate Waiting? - A nation renowned for the art of queuing may be losing its patience, a survey has shown, with the average British adult able to stand in line for only 10 minutes and 42 seconds before tempers start to fray. The most loathed lines were in supermarkets, followed by the Post Office and airport check-in and security.
10 minutes?! My temper flares if I'm forced to come to a complete stop at an intersection. And forget the post office (my views on that here), I can't even wait for the ATM. If I see a person in line at the ATM I just drive off or walk out. I'm not waiting 30 seconds for you to conduct your transaction.
OH YEA, TANNING BEDS, YEA - One of Russia's most notorious prisons will soon install sunbeds to improve the health of its inmates, its head said on Tuesday. Styled as a brick fortress, the 19th century Butyrka prison in central Moscow has held a slew of notable figures behind its bars, from persecuted Soviet-era writers Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Isaak Babel to Adolf Hitler's nephew Heinrich.
What happened to the Russia I knew and Loved? Where is the Steel Curtain, the Iron Fist. The Russia I knew didn't even have jails, they just shipped out prisoners to the cold woods of Siberia, by the time the inmates were able to walk back to civilization their time was up. Death sentences were for those too weak to make the journey home. Now they're providing tanning beds? Crazy world we live in.
