This is unprecedented in the cell phone industry.  Starting today, U.S. Cellular customers with dead or dying batteries can walk into any retail store and receive a fully charged replacement for free.  Two minor catches… 1) you need to be a U.S. Cellular customer and 2)  your phone needs to have been purchased within the [...]

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This is kind of a neat idea.  A tour company called Competitours offers tours of Europe that emulate the competition of the hit TV series Amazing Race by incorporating offbeat tasks each day.
According to this National Geographic article, a fella by the name of Steve Belkin recently launched this unique service.  “Challenges are set up [...]

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I’ve long believed that we Americans are lazy when it comes to pronouncing words, in general, especially names. Along comes a site called HowToSayThatName.com that can help immensely with the task. Native speakers provide help with pronouncing a host of first and last names. Check out the site if you need help [...]

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Do yourself a favor and get in on the ground floor of this amazing opportunity before word spreads. Among the many benefits of the Blank Paper Utility from Benjamin Bradford…

Extend the life of your print cartridge.
It’s free.
No download required.
Blank sheets of paper whenever, wherever you need them.

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College Humor answers the age-old question… What if fonts were human? For all the desktop design, publishing, marketing and computer geeks in the crowd, yo.
Click Here to view the video because their embed thing is retarded.
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BOGO offers (buy one, get one - usuallly free) have become commonplace in today’s competitive marketplace. But I stumbled across one on my local newspaper website that struck me as odd, funny and just plain interesting.
A local establishment, Allouez Catholic Cemetary & Chapel Mausoleum, is advertising a BOGO offer on graves. I guess [...]

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Visit www.SomethingStore.com, give them $10 and they’ll send you something. Oh, and shipping is free.
“It maybe something you need, something you want or something you desire. Yours may be a cool gadget, rare book, table game, handmade necklace, reverse clock, box of gourmet chocolates, set of shiny shower curtains, popular video game, big-box retailer [...]

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Old-School brew Schlitz is attempting a comeback.  Currently owned by another throwback brand, Pabst Brewing Co., they’re releasing a classic formula called “Classic 1960s Formula” in bottles in select markets.
According to an article in today’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
“…Pabst is selling bottled Schlitz as a sudsy comfort food for men in their 50s and early 60s. [...]

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How retarded is this! Dean Babcock, a TARGET security guard in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin was fired recently for busting a 16 year old girl for shoplifting alcohol from the store. I would say alleged, but he caught her not once, but twice, and had video evidence on top of it. But because [...]

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Denver’s major sports arena is the 19,000+ seat Pepsi Center.  Came across an interesting article from the Rocky Mountain News that points out that the tenant with the largest attendance at the center is not the Denver Nuggets of the NBA (17,099 avg. attendance), nor is it the Colorado Avalanche of the NHL (16,728)… but [...]

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As a kid growing up in the Milwaukee area in the 70s there were several things that were icons of my childhood - JicJac Soda, Leon’s custard and candy raisins are three that jump to mind.  Leon’s is still hanging in there, but JicJac is gone and now, candy raisins are threatened with extinction.
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We’ve seen cars that can travel on water like boats, but now automaker Rinspeed has developed a prototype car that travels UNDERwater.  In the spirit of James Bond in “The Spy Who Loved Me,” albeit not nearly as well-armed, comes the $1.5 million Squba.  Check out the CNN article and the Rinspeed website for details [...]

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Whitney Matheson over at USA Today’s Pop Candy blog alerted me to the fact that Monday was the 50th birthday?  anniversary?  whatever… these wonderfully colorful blocks have been around for 50 freakin’ years.
Gizmodo has this elaborately detailed timeline and fun facts about Lego bricks.  Not the least of which, they are officially not called Legos.  [...]

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Just so you know…
you are not allowed to have a “Bake-off”  only General Mills can have a “Bake-off”… because apparently they own the rights to the word “bake-off”… and they aren’t shy to step into a small town and flex their muscle over a local group raising money for a good cause.
 Link to the NPR [...]

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For all the geeks, nerds and dweebs in the crowd, check out the hottest fashion accessory compliments of the fine folks at ThinkGeek. Yes, you are seeing that correctly… it’s an 8-bit necktie. Handmade and only twenty bucks. Be the envy of your next Dungeons & Dragons] adventure.
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