When Rankin Paynter learned that the Kmart in his Kentucky town was closing, he decided to buy everything that remained on the store’s shelves — and give it all away. Four cash registers and six-and-a-half hours after his shopping spree began, the benevolent businessman walked away with $200,000 worth of inventory and gave it all [...]

Pretty interesting book …. Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure Some excerpts … “I spent the summer of 2005 studying poker. I interviewed some of the best players in the world, attended the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, analyzed “pokerbots” — poker-playing computers — and chronicled the efforts of highly rational players, [...]

Carolyn Hopkins of northern Maine — the woman behind the voice at airports telling us to “watch your bags” or “the next uptown train will arrive in… one minute.” And NOT for Kids … NSFW … And TSA Protest Underwear … comes with free tazing (also NSFW). Tweet This Post

ABC News has footage of the compound-house aftermath … warning – graphic and detailed. The DOD has put an illustration of the compound. Location mapped on Google Maps (with reviews – reviews NSFW – well, not safe for kids). And an IT guy who moved to Addottabad to work in quiet – who live tweeted [...]

Take Five A Day: The Magazine! You asked for it and now, you can on-demand it! Issue #1 of our magazine is available for order! 20 full-color pages devoted just to the DESERT ART series … Other than a few pages of text, the magazine is entirely comprised of full color checklists for however you [...]

eBay started out a welcoming friend. eBay then became a demanding friend. eBay “unfriended” nearly everyone. eBay then became “too good for us.” eBay sent out e-vites for a holiday get-together and no one showed. eBay then tried being “nice.” eBay is now trying desperation. “eBay today announced it will take a more active role [...]

The main news since our last update is that with the recent toy SKU reduction of the Big Three retailers (WM, Target & TRU) – it looks like Mighty Muggs will be a TRU exclusive only item coming this autumn-holiday season. It’s not that Mighty Muggs have not sold well but retailers just don’t get [...]

For those who missed the preview from a few weeks ago, Boom Studios is releasing a short series of CARS comics and some other Pixar ones. If your comic book store is large, they might be ordering these but if they’re a smaller store, they may not be getting these plus since it’s a smaller [...]

A nice encapsulation of the real life history of the Hudson car company and the Hudson Hornet we know from CARS. “Hudson introduced the new Step-Down design on the 1948 lineup. It featured a floor pan that sank down between the outer frame rails. (The norm was a flat floor set high atop the chassis.) [...]

Taking a further look into the entrails of our web analytics we find another interesting nugget of info.  The Top 10 cities where we currently are gaining visitors reveals mostly U.S. cities but there are indeed two non-U.S. cities that make the Top 10. Have your guesses in place before reading on.  Are you ready? [...]