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Superhero for a day. Spider-Man calls on Erik aka Electron Boy!
Tuesday, May 4th, 2010 | General | 2 Comments
Erik, who is living with liver cancer, has always wanted to be a superhero. On Thursday, the regional chapter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation granted him that wish with an elaborate event that involved hundreds of volunteers in Bellevue and Seattle.
Erik aka Electron Boy got a call from Spider-Man for help. He then rode in a DeLorean to Seatle to save the Seattle Sounders from “Dr. Dark” and “Blackout Boy” who imprisoned them in the locker room – and was escorted by more then 20 motorcycle officers from the Bellevue Police Department and King County and Snohomish sheriff’s offices.
They shut down 405 they shut down I-90 (Bellevue and Seattle)
He got to hang out with the team until the villains took over the Jumbotron to let Electron Boy they were going to shut down the cities electricity. Electron Boy was off again, will full escort and saved the day.
The city of Seattle gaves Erik the key to the city and proclaims April 29th to be Electron Boy day.
Honestly? Nothing I have here does this story justice. For a -full- detailed play by play of Erik’s AMAZING day of being a super hero, you have to click here to read the Seattle Times report.
To see heart touching photos of Electron Boy saving the day, facing off with his enemies and learning to wall climb with Spider-Man, visit the Electron Boy Facebook group.
Would you believe me if I said ONE dress helped raise $77,000 in 365 days?
Monday, May 3rd, 2010 | General | No Comments
Sheena Matheiken, a New Yorker by way of India pledged to wear the same little black dress – Every. Single. Day. For 365 days to raise money for The Akanksha Foundation, a nonprofit that brings education to children living in Indian slums.
The black dress Sheena spent a year of her life in was designed (By Eliza Starbuck) to be worn both frontward and backward and as an open tunic. She used the dress along with vintage clothing store finds to create 365 unique looks. She raised nearly $77,000, enough to send over 200 kids to school in India.
You can visit theuniformproject.com to browse through all 365 looks she came up with. Some of them looked amazing, and some looked rather funky. (And hard to move around in for the day.) But over all I give you three words: Creative, inspiring and awesome.
What do you think of what Sheena did? Leave a comment 
Uniform Project Picture Book from The Uniform Project on Vimeo.
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Why Facebook won’t charge you.
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010 | Geek, General | No Comments
Like anyone on Facebook, I’m sure you have seen panic pages and spam about Facebook is going to start charging. I don’t think to many people stop and think when they see this. Well, ok.. they think, but not about the right things. I’m pretty sure they think ‘I’m not paying!’. Well they would be right, you wont. And not because you joined some group or liked a page. Read on to see why Facebook will never start charging for their service.
Faceboook is a private company, and rather tight lipped about how much money they are making. According to Inside Facebook, revenues likely reached between $600 million and $700 million for 2009. They don’t need a monthly fee from you.
Where did this money come from?
I will start simple. Advertisements. Any time you see an ad, Facebook gets paid. Anytime you click on, Facebook gets paid. That’s the same with any web site that has ads on it. When you see “Steve is a fan of Mandy Madrox” (Shoosh!) Facebook does not get paid for you to view it or click it. (This is when they random in what your friends are fans of for filler.) How ever they would get paid if someone with a fan page decided to buy advertising to show that ad to all of Facebook.
Virtual goods, where you buy credits to get a ‘virtual gift’ for your friend and send it to them. I never have, have you?
Games. Companies like Zynga pay Facebook to promote and display the games we love to play. Look at this URL carefully. http://apps.facebook.com/onthefarm/index.php When you load this URL, Farmville loads up. A common assumption is that Facebook has these games on their servers. They don’t. This page has several lines of code that call up the game from Zynga’s servers. So the page you load it self, is on Facebook’s servers, and Zynga paid for it to be set up like this. They pay for the entire integration of their games into the Facebook site. This applies to any games your playing. The developing game company has paid Facebook.
Why do they pay? Ever buy Farmville cash or gold? According to this web site, Zynga made $250 million in gross revenues in 2009.
Any company that has service integrated into Facebook. Paid.
Now before you start to think all this money goes into Facebook’s creator’s pockets. Keep in mind, Facebook has offices in Palo Alto, California, Dublin, Ireland (international headquarters for Europe, Africa, Middle East) Seoul, and South Korea (international headquarters for Asia). They have 1200+ employees. According to , datacenterknowledge.com Facebook has 30,000 servers (As of 2009) supporting its operations. All of this, do I really need to say this? Costs them money.
Dodge, you disappoint me, but probably not Barbie.
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 | General, Painted Purple | No Comments
Not that I’m a big follower of the current car market. I’m a fan of the Mustang. I enjoy going to vintage car shows. To me, the majority of cars that are available right now all look the same.
So what do you do to compete with other brands this year? (And make a come back from slumping sales and financial cutbacks that ultimately ended in bankruptcy?) You one up them and introduce “Furious Fuchsia” BRILLIANT. Every man in America will see this car, turn to their wives and say “That’s just down right wrong” — WAIT.. I don’t think that’s what Dodge want’s to hear.
About 85% of Challenger buyers are male, according to Chrysler.
Photographs don’t really do justice to Furious Fuchsia, Chrysler spokesman Dan Ried insisted, while acknowledging that fuchsia might seem an odd color choice for a male-oriented car.
“I saw it in person and it actually looks pretty cool,” he said. “It’s tough to capture how it looks in the daylight.”
Odd color for a male oriented car? You think? “It actually looks pretty cool” — psss hey guess who’s paid to say that? Spokesman Dan Ried! Don’t worry Dodge, Barbie will buy your car! 
All jabs aside.
Furious Fuchsia is an all-new shade. Chrysler describes it as an updated version of Panther Pink and Moulin Rouge, colors available in 1970 and which enjoy a fan following today, including Web sites dedicated to the colors.
Web sites dedicated to the colors? Really? *Googles* Well, what do you know…
Hey I think iv seen one these Panther Pink Dodge cars!
Anyway.. Dodge? A message to you:
10 Desktop Wallpapers from Wallcoo to make you drool.
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 | Geek, General | 1 Comment
It seems like it’s a pain to find wall papers that impress. I think, I found a handful. Wallcoo.net offers over 50000 high quality free wallpapers. Click “continue reading” to view more!
Burger King Dollar Holidays – GG
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 | General | No Comments
Good going Burger King. You have provided some of the best greeting cards for this season! In a brilliant marketing move (in my opinion anyway) consumers can go online and purchase these cards good for buying a dollar double cheese burger. Cards range from “Casual” to “Virtual Stranger.” This one here, priceless. They seem to be selling out fast: http://www.bkdollarholidays.com/
Nothing says ‘I like you’ like..Cheeseburger to the face!
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 | General, Weird | No Comments
A Vero Beach, Florida man is behind bars after hitting his girlfriend several times with a cheeseburger.
The victim told sheriff’s deputies that she was eating with boyfriend Vincent Gonzales in her car when the two began arguing.
When she threw his drink out of the car window, he retaliated by hitting her in the face with a cheeseburger.
He then pulled her from the car and struck her with the sandwich several more times.
Gonzales with charged with battery and domestic violence.
His bond has been set at $1,000. [Source]
Can I get a WTF? Now il admit im kind of a loser and have no interest in dating. I haven’t dated in a long time. That said, im pretty sure that it hasn’t been SO long since I dated that the rules changed so drastically.
Step one: Ask girlfriend out for a burger and fries.
Step two: Sit in the car while you eat, giggle, laugh..
Step three: Turn into a total jerk..
Step four: CHEESEBURGER TO THE FACE!!!
Did you know..
Monday, December 8th, 2008 | General, Weird | No Comments
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