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- Natural SelectionToday
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Survival of the fittest may be a reality in these difficult economic times, but natural selection can be tampered with.
- Interesting Christmas Gifts: The Marshmallow PopperToday
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Ever wanted to shot people with Marshmallow? No, I haven’t either but the Marshmallow Popper offers just that.
The Marshmallow popper gun “shoots sweet, fluffy treats up to 30 feet!” with a pump-action handle delivering long-range shots or machine-gun style depending on how the quickly it’s pumped.
Did we mention that it’s billed as “safe fun both indoors and out.”
If the idea of shooting marshmallow’s isn’t your thing, the toy gun can also fire green non-edible foam pellets, which come included with the gun.
- Rocky Mountain News on the market, may be shut down in JanuaryToday
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E.W. Scripps Company has put Colorado’s The Rocky Mountain News on the market.
Colorado’s oldest newspaper founded in 1859, The Rocky Mountain news lost around $11 million for the first 9 months of this year, and is expect to lose $15 million for the full year, off the back of a circulation of 255,000 weekday copies.
Scripps has owned the News since 1926, and since 2001 has been in a joint operating agreement with The Denver Post, reports The Huffington Post.
Scripps president and CEO Rich Boehne said the paper would be shut down mid-January if no buyer was found.
- Bothell High School Cheerleaders Parents Sue over Nude PhotographsToday
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The parents of two cheerleaders at Bothell High School in Washington State are suing the local school district for mishandling nude photographs of their daughters.
Where the case gets weird is where the photos came from: the cheerleaders took racy cellphone photos of themselves and then “accidentally” sent them to other students, including members of the football team. The school found out and suspended the kids.
The school district is getting sued because the parents claim they were not properly notified of the incident that led to the cheerleaders suspension from the cheer squad. The suit also claims that school administrators violated the girls’ due process rights, that the school needlessly shared the photos with other school staff members, and that the school failed to promptly report the matter to police as possible child pornography.
Parental responsibility, you’ve got to love it.
- The Facebook Virus is backToday
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Koobface, aka The Facebook virus is back with new reports on widespread infections.
The Facebook virus was first reported in August, and emails Facebook users from friend accounts telling them that they look great in a movie and they should view the movie, or in one incarnation suggest that there’s embarrassing video footage online about the user. When users click through, they hit a YouTube style video site and are prompted to download a file to play the videos. Not surprisingly, at this point the words “it’s a trap” are appropriate because the download is a trojan.
Advice from computer experts: don’t go downloading video software from strange sites based on an email in Facebook. My advice: don’t use your Facebook email account, just to be safe
