This made me smile...India is creating a Ministry of Happiness. This new Ministry will oversea 70 programs. These include, not suprisingly, Yoga, spirituality and the arts. India is not the first country to do so with the UAE and Venezuela having already started happiness bureaus. Even Nicholas Sarkozy, during his tenure as the French President, …
As we all know by now, the UK voted to leave the EU. I found this funny and sad Instagram post and a very well written post to the Financial Times. This represents the bulk of social media over the past day.
Yesterday Muhammad Ali was laid to rest and a parade of speakers, famous and not so famous, eulogized this man. From Senator Orin Hatch to Billy Crystal to President Bill Clinton they all had words that were meaningful, funny and sad. It was an amazing service. Most people don't remember that he was not well liked by a great majority of the count …
Poop is now officially the big topic in Spain...In Torrelodones, Spain they installed a giant inflatable poop in order to discourage dog owners from abandoning their pets' excrement in the streets. The town of Torrelodones shared photos of the inflatable poop and encouraged residents to share photos of the massive message to dog owners with the h …
The Bible has been translated into 531 languages and now you have the option of reading it in Emojis. I kid you not. Take a look at this... As of now the person that translated it remains unidentified but sources tell me that the author wanted Millennials to identify with the teachings in the Bible. The author was quoted as saying "A major …
Our government has a National Do Not Call Registry which is supposed to limit the amout of telephone solicitations you received. But there seems to be something amiss. Since registering my cell number, I've gotten more calls lately, robo or otherwise trying to sell me something. Does anybody else have this same experience? It's interesting when …
A Burger King in Finland has made the idea of enjoying a Whopper in a sauna a reality by opening the world's first Burger King spa. The Helsinki restaurant features the Burger King-themed spa which can seat up to 15 people. The spa features Red and Blue accents to match the restaurant's logo, a 48-inch television screen and towels featuring Bur …
In the film Star Trek Generations, Data, the andriod, installs the emotion chip he retrieved from Lore, his brother, and experiences the full scope of emotions. However, those emotions were difficult to control and Data struggled to master them. In several scenes, Data experiences laughter, sadness and outright fear and terror. In one partiular s …
Another strange but true story that made me just shake my head. An Australian brewery is mixing up a unique beverage for an upcoming festival: a beer brewed using yeast from belly button lint. The 7 Cent Brewery in Victoria announced on its website that tin a upcoming beer festival they will debut Belly Button Beer, which is brewed using belly bu …
Can anybody say fantasy? This Marvel looking exoskeleton is actually real. The prototype 'mecha-exosuit' called the NK-01 is a nod to the Robert Downey Jr Iron Man movies as it's been put together by a team who obviously love comic books and cartoons. The coolest part is that it can be piloted by a person wearing the suit. They say not to get a …
I think we might want to start locking up our laundry detergent and making sure we have a password for our WiFi. Sometime last week a naked 28 year old man was arrested after he broke into a north Georgia home through a pet door. He entered the home nude to shower, wash his laundry and to use the owner’s WiFi. The police incident report says th …
From the worldwide resources of Gotham comes this strange but true story. An Austrailian man was arrested yesterday for choosing to put seat belts on his beer and not his children. Now there's a man with a clear priority. The photo on the left shows the actual two cases of beer carefully protected by restraints. Photos of the children were unav …
If you haven't heard, a small bird landed on Bernie Sander’s podium during a speech in Portland, Oregon, on March 25. He was shocked and surprised and it was an interesting moment. It almost seemed like a scene from a Disney movie. Of course some creative folks made the connection and, as fast as you can say Disneyland, not only were hashtags bor …
You might want to crack open that dusty box of vidoes and see if you have any that you forgot to bring back to the store. A North Carolina man was arrested this week on charges he failed to return a VHS tape to a video store 14 years ago. 14 years! It wasn't even a really good movie..."Freddy Got Fingered." The culprit was driving his daughter to …
It will be a year tomorrow that I euphemistically got "hit by a bus." (If you're interested in reading about it click here.) A lot has changed for me during this time and it's too easy to look back and relive the trauma. However, when I reflect, I think of a moment in the hospital that was very special. It was in the afternoon around 1p and the …
It's Saturday...and anything goes.
