Archive for June, 2008

This is not funny. This is real. Keep a straight face and read on.

The Panties for Peace campaign was launched by a group of women peace activists from a Burmese peace activist group called – Lanna Action for Burma which is based in Thailand. Since we initiated the panties for peace campaign for Burma, women’s panties (as well as male underwear) have been mailed out by activists to Burma’s foreign missions in Australia, Singapore, and European countries.

Our act of delivering our underwear to the Burmese foreign missions across the globe is of immense importance and symbolic in protest of Myanmar junta’s violent crackdown of monks-led rallies in Yangon last month, and to oust the generals ruling the country from power.

Does this mean there will be thousands of women sitting at their computers with no panties now? I can’t think of a better cause to support.

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When companies merge, or one product segment is acquired by another, they sometimes don’t make sense. This one, however, seems to make sense.

J.M. Smucker Co (SJM.N) will acquire Folgers, the largest U.S. coffee business, from Procter & Gamble Co (PG.N) for stock valued at $2.95 billion, the companies said on Wednesday.

The deal will give P&G shareholders a 53.5 percent stake in Smucker, known for its namesake jellies and jams and which also makes Jif peanut butter and Crisco shortening, brands it acquired from P&G in 2002.

Just imagine the new line of flavored coffees that will be coming our way. Ha! I’m just not sure America is ready for Boysenberry Lattes though.

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Have you heard the one about the genius that walked into the pawn shop?

Staffers at a pawn shop in Fort Lauderdale thought the shopper with a goatee looked suspicious. Their instincts were confirmed Monday when, two minutes later, a red dye pack exploded in the man’s pants. He fled the store, ditching a stolen wad of cash that contained the theft-detection device.

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No one was injured but bystanders in the shop complained their eyes stung from the dye mixture that contained some Mace.

Okay, their eyes were burning. Imagine how Mr. Genius felt. Ha!

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It seems Yahoo is doing an awesome job turning away business opportunities.

Yahoo Inc executives dismissed a search-advertising deal with Google due to antitrust concerns, one day before Microsoft Corp made its takeover offer earlier this year, according to court documents made public on Monday.

The position came to light in a complaint filed by attorneys representing two Michigan pension funds in a shareholder lawsuit that aims to revoke Yahoo takeover defenses and press the company to renew merger talks with Microsoft.

“We are focused on long-term value creation rather than short-term gains,” said a Yahoo document prepared for Yahoo executives ahead of an “all hands” internal meeting on January 30 — the day before Microsoft made its merger offer.

Bracing for employee questions over whether Yahoo should outsource its search-ad sales to Google, executives were prepared to argue that any short-term gains would derail Yahoo’s long-term push to become a “must buy” for advertisers.

Pardon me, but that’s going to be a mighty “long-term” push. I don’t forsee Yahoo ever becoming a “must buy” for advertisers, then again, I also thought Yahoo would be part of Microsoft by now too.

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One must be very crafty to pull off something like this.

A nude maid is accused of really cleaning up at a Florida man’s home. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said a 50-year-old man hired the maid from the Internet on Friday to clean his Tampa home.

Authorities said the woman arrived at the home in a one-piece, light colored dress. She took off the dress and cleaned the house for $100-per-hour. Sheriff’s office spokeswoman Debbie Carter said the man told deputies he left the maid alone in the bedroom to clean.

When the man’s wife came home from vacation, she discovered $40,000 in jewelry missing from their bedroom.

Police are investigating.

Either she looked damned good and he didn’t notice, or she was quite talented at hiding things.

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As a DISH subscriber, I am getting really tired of this.

DISH Network and EchoStar said Friday they had filed a lawsuit against TiVo and asked a Delaware court to find that their new DVR software does not infringe a TiVo patent.

In January, the U.S. Court of Appeals said DISH, a satellite television provider, had infringed a TiVo patent in building digital video recorders, and upheld a lower court’s damage award against DISH of $74 million plus interest.

The more they fight, the more likely my bill is going to go up. If my bill goes up, I get angry. If I get angry, I switch providers. It’s that simple.

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