Hidden within your Facebook profile’s URL is a string of numbers (www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=5500957) that will tell you where you fall in the grand order of everyone who signed up for Facebook, according to Business Insider . It used that number code (which some may not have, if you opted…
Continue reading …Fears that the US economy is stalling sent the Dow Jones industrial average down 280 points, erasing more than a quarter of the stock market’s gains for the year. A pair of reports raised new doubts about the economy’s strength: A key manufacturing index fell from its April level, and…
Continue reading …With the NFL lockout dragging on, a lot of players might just be looking for work. Thankfully, Bleacher Report is here to help. Here are some gigs that top players are trying out: Comedian— You don’t need to do years of standup to get a comedy gig; you just need…
Continue reading …And you thought other big-box superstores were making an attempt to go green. A chain nicknamed the “Walmart of Weed” opened its third and largest outlet today in Phoenix, Arizona, where voters approved medical marijuana last fall. Although you can’t buy pot in the first weGrow Store outside California, it’s…
Continue reading …Republicans met with President Obama today to talk about the debt, resulting in what the Los Angeles Times describes as a “pointed exchange” between Paul Ryan and Obama. Ryan accused the president and Democrats of distorting his proposal to overhaul Medicare. “It’s been misdescribed by the president and many others,…
Continue reading …Glenn Beck may be leaving Fox but you’ll still see a lot of him at the bookstore. Beck’s Mercury Radio Arts has signed a deal with Simon & Schuster both to publish a bunch of Beck’s own books, and to create Mercury Ink, a division devoted to Beck’s pet authors,…
Continue reading …Today in tornado news: New York City of all places is under a watch until 8pm, reports NBC New York . The watch also applies to the surrounding counties of Nassau, Westchester, Rockland, Orange, and Putnam. Philadelphia and Boston are in the same boat, notes the Huffington Post . Today’s forecast follows…
Continue reading …A writer at the National Legal and Policy Center thinks something fishy is going on regarding the $7,500 federal tax credit offered on Chevy Volts. The post alleges that dealers are selling the cars to each other to claim the money, then reselling the cars as “used” to consumers,…
Continue reading …The New York Times today has a lengthy backgrounder on the case of Fabrice Tourre, the young Goldman Sachs trader sued by the SEC on allegations of fraud. What has caught the eye of most bloggers, though, isn’t any revelations in the story but the way it was sourced: Much…
Continue reading …One group of eighth-graders experienced a different kind of lunch lady on their recent field trip to Baltimore: a Hooters girl. The Pennsylvania middle school students embarked on a visit to the National Aquarium last week. Chaperones (who the AP describes as “coed”) took them to various restaurants for lunch…
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