Month: April 2012

PreCrime department kicks the doors down before tomorrow's protests: NYPD Raids Activists' Homes Before Tomorrow's Occupy Wall Street Protests A day before Occupy Wall Street hopes to shut down New York and cities across the country in massive May Day protests- the NYPD visited at least three activist homes in New York and interrogated residents […]

'Two hands with space in the middle!' 'The End is Purple': Grandmas Watch Kim Kardashian's Sex Tape Just three little old ladies doing what three little old ladies do: Watching Kim Kardashian: Superstar- and commenting on the size of Ray J's snake. [Reddit]

Whew! Fringe renewed for an abbreviated final 13-episode fifth season. Hopefully this means they get to tie it all up the way they want. http://io9.com/5905573/fringe-gets-a-fifth-and-final-season Fringe gets a fifth and final season We'll get to see the final chapter of the saga of Walter- Walternate and the Observers after all. Fringe has been renewed for […]

New nerd project: Adapting a 'add to favorites' WordPress plugin into a learning module where a lesson = a post and you can mark a lesson as 'completed.' https://github.com/andymatic/LearnPress LearnPress LearnPress – Adapting Huseyin Berberoglu's WP Favorite Posts plugin for WordPress for marking posts/lessons completed.

New breakthrough in passive-aggressive parenting: Spare The Facebook Humiliation- Spoil the Child? When Denise Abbott's 13-year-old daughter spoke to her disrespectfully- she didn't get mad — she got even on Facebook. The Akron woman posted a shopped profile photo of Ava silenced by a white-on-red X- along with the following message:

'New census data has been released- you whores. Don't like being called a whore? Well you better get used to it- now that you're living in a nation in which less than half of all households contain a married couple for like the first time ever- while the number of households with unmarried couples rose […]

Groupon CEO tells staff the company must grow up- belches beer while wearing colorful socks. CEO: Groupon Must Grow Up Groupon CEO Andrew Mason told the company's employees on Wednesday that the daily-deals site needs to grow up–right after he apologized for drinking too much beer.

Congrats to Matt and company: Automattic Grows Up: The Company Behind WordPress.com Shares Revenue Numbers and Hires Execs Automattic is profitable and expects to bring in $45 million in revenue this year- according to CEO Toni Schneider and founder Matt Mullenweg.

At least your PR/marketing job isn't banging your head against the way trying to write about 'salad innovation': News archive – Morrisons "Morrisons is introducing an innovative new selection of salads which include a range of highly nutritious superfoods."