As it turns out, it may be easier to get kicked off an airplane than you think. In addition to wearing improper attire, swearing loudly and fighting with fellow passengers, singing a famous song – badly – can have you escorted off by officers during an emergency landing.
This is what happened when a woman refused to stop singing Whitney Houston’s rendition of “I Will Always Love You” on an American Airlines flight from Los Angeles to New York on Thursday.
So as I was picking up my oldest from school. I found this little girl standing in the middle of the parking lot crying and lost. I guess at some point the mom picked up the little girl’s sister, packed her up in the car and drove off…. Yes.. She drove off and left this little girl there. Lucky enough we were in the school parking lot, so we went back to the main office and got her mom’s phone number.
When the mother finally showed up, she had this “whatever” attitude and didn’t say “thank you”or anything. Not ever to the main office people. So she grabbed the little girl and walked outside. I then gathered up my kids and started walking out to the car. There I see the mother yelling that the little girl for getting lost.
Last I checked lady… You drove off and left her there! Didn’t have a choice in the matter. Not I’m not one to tell people how to raise their kids. But I know an idiot when I see one. But I had to say something.. “Rather than yelling at your child for something she couldn’t control. Maybe you should be telling her that you love her and that your sorry. Make it up to her for YOUR mistake. Step up your game as a parent. If you can’t do that. Maybe you should take a look in the mirror and not take it out on your children for your failings.”
I’m just saying, just a thought haha. God I hate people sometimes.
Dutch programmer Joannes Jozef Everardus van Der Meer is suing Facebook over its ‘Like’ button. Companies get sued all the time! Why do we care? Well, aside from having an A+ name, van Der Meer is actually… dead. He passed away in 2004, just as Facebook was beginning to take over the world. Why is he suing now?
Van Der Meer was the founder of Surfbook, a social diary-type service where people could share stuff with friends and like things with a ‘like’ button. If that sounds a heckuva lot like some other site with book in its name, well, you know why lawsuits are being tossed around. The lawsuit claims that Facebook “bears a remarkable resemblance, both in terms of its functionality and technical implementation, to the personal web page diary that Van Der Meer had invented years earlier.”
Van Der Meer was awarded patents in 1998 for Surfbook, patents that presumably include the Like button. But Van Der Meer is dead so why does he care about lawsuits? Well, Rembrandt Social Media, a patent-holding company, is the one that’ll be doing the suing but Van Der Meer’s widow and his colleagues will testify in the trial about the importance of his invention. Some times, people want credit for their work. And other times, patent holding companies want money for those people’s work. Even when they’re dead.
Archeologists of the History Institute of the DPRK Academy of Social Sciences in North Korea claim they have found the “lair of the unicorn rode by King Tongmyong.” Yes, folks. A unicorn. The unicorn that their good old King used to ride back in the day.*
According to the official Korean News, King Tongmyong was the founder of the Koguryo Kingdom (277BC to 668AD). The archeologists say the unicorn’s lair “is located 200 meters from the Yongmyong Temple in Moran Hill in Pyongyang City. A rectangular rock carved with [the] words Unicorn Lair stands in front of the lair. The carved words are believed to date back to the period of Koryo Kingdom (918-1392).”
According to Jo Hui Sung, director of the History Institute:
Korea’s history books deal with the unicorn, considered to be ridden by King Tongmyong, and its lair. The Sogyong (Pyongyang) chapter of the old book ‘Koryo History’ (geographical book), said: Ulmil Pavilion is on the top of Mt. Kumsu, with Yongmyong Temple, one of Pyongyang’s eight scenic spots, beneath it. The temple served as a relief palace for King Tongmyong, in which there is the lair of his unicorn.
The old book ‘Sinjungdonggukyojisungnam’ (Revised Handbook of Korean Geography) complied in the 16th century wrote that there is a lair west of Pubyok Pavilion in Mt. Kumsu.
There you have it. Apparently, North Korean’s scientists are as truthful and trustworthy as the country’s dictators and political establishment. Unicorn? Lairs! All sounds perfectly reasonable to me.
It seems that North Korea thinks this is great news because it “proves that Pyongyang was [the] capital city of Ancient Korea as well as [the] Koguryo Kingdom.” The next thing they will claim is the discovery of a secret door to the Kingdom of Hyrule. Then they will claim their right to own Japan. [Korean News]
* That in the photo is not their old king, but their latest supreme leader and sexiest man in the world.
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Confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik testified in Norway on Thursday that he played “World of Warcraft” for 16 hours a day in 2006 in preparation for last summer’s attacks, in which Breivik killed eight people by setting off a bomb in central Oslo and then shot 69 others to death on the island of Utoya.
Here are some details about the game:
WHAT IT IS: “World of Warcraft” is a popular series of online role-playing games. Millions of people form a virtual universe and become such characters as orcs, trolls, humans and dwarves. Among other things, characters battle dragons and monsters in the game and interact with one another. They improve by collecting virtual goods such as weapons along the way.
PUBLISHER: It is made by Blizzard Entertainment, a unit of Activision Blizzard Inc. The “World of Warcraft” franchise is one of the top money-makers for the company, though it isn’t as lucrative as the “Call of Duty” series.
USAGE: “World of Warcraft” had 10.2 million subscribers at the end of 2011. It’s recognized by Guinness World Records as the most popular subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game, though that was based on a higher subscription total of more than 12 million in October 2010.
UPDATES: Although the game has been out since 2004, Blizzard has sold three updates to help keep it fresh. The latest, “Cataclysm,” sold 3.3 million copies within 24 hours. Blizzard makes money from one-time sales of the updates as well as recurring subscription fees. A fourth update, “Mists of Pandaria,” is in the works.
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