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The Christmas season by the numbers…

Morning Star — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:54:11 +0000

Here is a great graphic of the Christmas season by the numbers…

The truth about bottled water

Morning Star — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:45:48 +0000

Do you know the truth about how that water bottle you carry around effects the world around you? Here’s a good graphic…

Roxy growing up?

Morning Star — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:17:10 +0000

Roxy, the teen garment powerhouse has recently expanded it’s reach to Roxy Athletics. Hopefully this will pull Quiksilver, Roxy’s parent company’s stock off the bottom, but that will be determined. I’m still down though, plus this video has a couple of the cutest and stylish surfer and snowboarder out there, Kassia Meador and Torah Bright, so it’s worth watching just for that!

Do you know the story of Google?

Morning Star — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:46:43 +0000

Here is a cool animation of the story of Google. It’s amazing how the web applications have grown through the last decade!

Once Victoria Secrets, now Apple

Morning Star — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:39:59 +0000

The upper westside of NY is getting a new glass monolith opening Saturday Nov 14, 2009. What was once a Victoria Secret store is now the home of the ginormous new Apple Store. This place is huge! It holds the most demo units in any store in the world. So you have a sense of the size, the walls are 45ft tall and you could fit 11 5th Avenue Cubes inside it. The genius bar can handle 100 people at once and spans 45 feet across. NERD ALERT! The store is located at 67th and Broadway so if you out there on Saturday, they will be handing out 2250 commemorative t-shirts if you’re that kind of crazy!

Apple profit charts soar!

Morning Star — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:47:24 +0000

Here’s a nice little graph to really show the scrutiny that Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs has to the pockets of the little computer that could. It’s funny that as one of the original founders, he was fired in the mid 80s. Then he went on his way to start Next Software. Which in 1996, Apple decided to buy Next Software and bring back Jobs as Intern CEO. This is when his madness began to change the failing company to a cash cow. With products like the iMac, iPod/iTunes and the super popular iPhone, it’s no wonder Apple’s profits have soared!

Burger King is getting sued over $1 cheeseburgers

Morning Star — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:05:29 +0000

Burger King franchise owners have been pretty pissed at the Burger King corporation due to the $1 cheeseburger deal off the $1 menu. Franchise owners are stating that the $1 cheeseburger actually cost the franchise $1.10 and that they are losing money. Franchise owners represent 90% of the 12,000 locations and have decided to sued the company. The problem I see here is that if the franchise keeps the prices above it’s competitors then they lose business due to the poor economy, but if they succumb to the $1 menu, they may not make it to sell any burgers…it’s almost the same catch 22 of eating at fast food joints in the first place. You eat it to save money and it’s fast, but it’s not good an eventually if you eat too much, you’ll have to get surgery to unclog your arteries or you’ll die. I say that they just keep the price of the cheeseburgers off the $1 menu. Let’s save everyone the heartache!

Perfect bowling ball isn’t cheap

Morning Star — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:43:20 +0000

Have you ever wanted to go to your local bowling alley and impress your friends by knocking down a perfect 300 game? Well now you can. Built by a Texas company called 900 Global a perfect score at the alley is just $1500 away. The ball is geared for young children and the physically impaired. Screw that, I’m gonna get that ball and rule those jerk offs at the alley!

The global reach of Ronald McDonald

Morning Star — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:17:23 +0000

Have you ever wondered how far the McDonald’s brand has reached? It seems like everywhere I’ve traveled, even to some of the remote locations, there was someone I knew who could take me to a McDonald’s. Well here’s a map of the reach of McDonald’s.

A cooler Visa card for kids

Morning Star — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:16:42 +0000

Kids are always wanting to get their hands on their parents’ credit cards but that’s been a bit of an issue. So there are a myriad of companies that offer a prepaid version for kids, but Myplash is a company that has signed some of the hottest entertainers, athletes and musicians to brand these cards to make them even cooler than just flashing your Visa at lunch time. With faces like Danity Kane, JVC, Mike Vallely, and Kassia Meador, these cards make it a lot more fun for kids to show off the kind of person they associate with. My favorite is Kassia Meador’s card, I own this one myself cause what’s cooler than throwing down a Visa with a beautiful surfer girl on it?!? You can get one too at http://www.myplash.com