Turkey and cheese sandwich not good enough, girl forced to buy nuggets at cafeteria
Whoa. American schools have really weird rules. These, no doubt, came from some admirable desire to provide all kids with equally nutritious lunch, which resulted in this strange role of lunch box inspector. If someone told me that all lunches were to be inspected, I wouldn’t believe. Until now. Yep, in North Carolina there are…
Continue reading…Private Messages on Facebook? Why, Politico will count you, of course
Facebook is like a minefield. And an active one as well. As soon as you relax a bit and don’t try to trawl the net about their new “initiatives” and something is already beeping and blinking under your foot, ready to explore. This time it’s the “sentiment analysis” that is being sold to Politico for…
Continue reading…Soon airlines will finally be forced to post the real price
Finally. It doesn’t happen often, but there is a new regulation that I wholeheartedly support. Starting from January 24th 2012 airfares in ads will have to include taxes and fees. Yes! It means when the ticket costs $1500 it won’t be advertised as $500 super fare, which just happen to have extra thousand bucks in…
Continue reading…City of Austin tries to out-San Francisco the San Francisco, ban plastic and paper bags
I swear, lately the environmentalism turned from venerable goal into some sort of a madness. Fresh example — city of Austin tries to ban plastic and paper bags. Well now, the proposed ordinance on ban of bags is out and it’s just crazy. First of all, both plastic and paper single-use bags will be banned…
Continue reading…Belgian Newspapers sued Google, won, get delisted as they wanted. Cry about it.
Ah yes, the wonderful world of idiotic copyright demands and fantastic example of a wish being granted exactly as it was expressed, bringing the world of hurt on a greedy wisher. A long, long time ago (in 2006, which is as close to “forever” as you can get in the internet time) Copiepresse, representing Belgian…
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