What do you do when a customer keels over and dies in the middle of your fast food restaurant? If you’re the manager of a certain Croatian McDonald’s, the answer is apparently to cover her with a sheet and continue selling your heart-stopping Big Macs and french fries. The company denies the restaurant remained open,…
Kyle Wiens is the CEO of iFixit and founder of Dozuki. Wiens caught our attention this week due to a piece he wrote which appeared on a Harvard Business Review blog. Wiens gives all potential hires a mandatory grammar test, and rejects candidates who don’t pass. If you think an apostrophe was one of the…
Hell hath no fury like.. well.. a Casey James Fury anxious. Fury became anxious and wanted to leave work and as a result he will likely never have to worry about work again. The 24 year old Fury was working as a sandblaster and painter on the nuclear submarine USS Miami while it was in…
A quote in today’s Wall Street Journalabout mass murdering theater shooter James Egan Holmes reminded us of the classic Arlo Guthrie song, Alice’s Restaurant. In an attempt to get out of army service, Guthrie’s character presents himself to the psychiatrist as a crazy killer- which is apparently just what the army is looking for: And…
Over the last few years there has been ample reason to be bearish on Sears Holdings(SHLD). After all, the company has floundered under the control of hedge fund manager Eddie Lampert, under-investing in stores, and sales and profits have plummeted. The company has taken to breaking up into various pieces and closing stores- a sad…
There is no doubt that Joe Dimaggio was a great hitter. His 56 game hitting streak is often pointed to as the most unbreakable record in sports. Though Dimaggio got a hit in every one of those 56 games(and 2214 hits in all), he hit all of them from the right side. A big mistake, then, by the ever-embattled United States Postal Service. …
We wrote recently about the possibility of 7-11 rolling out a mashed potato nozzle across the country (The Gloppee?). Clearly, the next step is to follow it up with the oatmeal and scrambled eggs nozzles. Now, Boing-Boing writes about a breakfast machine already in the wild that doesn’t look half bad – an automatic pancake machine. It…
Fox31 reports that police are seeking a second person of interest in the horrific Colorado theater shooting. Fox31 did not identify the man other than to say that he was a fellow neuroscience graduate student at the University of Colorado, but other sources have identified him as Yeom Pyo Lee. Fox31 reports further regarding Lee:…
The 1950s are back. No, not poodle skirts and doo wop, but a distinctive cough and the disease that causes it. CDC officials are concerned about a sharp rise in the number of cases of whooping cough. There have been 18,000 cases diagnosed this year, more than double last year’s pace, and on track to…
Gretchen Reynolds of Well reports on a recent study on exercise habits around the world, and tells us that 43.3% of Americans do not meet the recommended low threshold for exercise. With the Olympic fast approaching, and America likely to be at or near the top in medals won, America’s exercise gap may be as…