Several wireless companies have announced rate plans for unlimited calling plans, including weekends, days, nights, afternoons, nooners, holidays, and any other time you can name. Most of the wireless providers are offering the plans at just $100/mo, but Virgin Mobile USA has come in lower, offering the “Totally Everything” plan for just $80/mo.

What does Virgin hope to accomplish with this lowering? To get more customers, of course. What could be better? Because the plan is prepaid, there are no contracts to sign. No being locked into a deal. No being stuck with a carrier. A bold move. But will it work? Continue Reading »

Knowing who is the top wireless provider in the nation might change on different occassions, but for the first quarter of 2008 the numbers have been manipulated and finally submitted and are available for your viewing pleasure.

Here’s something that might surprise you, unless you think about it and the state of the economy and the overall laziness of the population. There were no changes in rankings from the last time a quarterly report was created. Continue Reading »

Seems that in Norway, a woman has found a way to increase the value of fake hair. The value of the wig actually didn’t change, but maybe her head became more valuable, when the woman glued 2.2 pounts of cocaine to her head.

There have been wilder things glued to much more interesting parts of the body, but gluing something to your head should earn you some bonus points. Just think what William Shatner is smuggling under his hair piece. Continue Reading »

This website costs money to run, but I’m not smart enough to stop. The truth is that I’m not nearly as smart as the list of men that make more money now that they are dead than 99.5% of Americans will make while they are alive. Ridiculous and amazing at the same time.

Eugene Isenberg is the 78-year-old chief executive of Nabors Industries Ltd. If Mr. Isenberg died tomorrow, Nabors would owe his estate a “severance” payment of at least $263.6 million, company filings show. That’s more than the first-quarter earnings at the Houston oil-service company. Continue Reading »

DETROIT - The only races seen at the Detroit River on Saturday were the ones shown on jumbo video screens.

Wind forced the organizers of the Red Bull Air Race World Series to postpone qualifying rounds.

Twelve pilots had been expected to reach speeds of up to 230 mph as they zipped through inflated obstacles in the river. But winds gusting to more than 59 mph prevented the planes from flying as scheduled. Continue Reading »

Ford Motor Co. confirmed it will build its new global car, the Fiesta, in Mexico for future sale in North America as part of a $3 billion investment in the country. Chances are that the car will become popular with locals in the country of Mexico as the Fiesta will have a body shell made of straw with bright colors. Also expected to come as standard accessory with each car is a baseball bat and a blindfold. Continue Reading »

The United States is “stuck” with its prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba because it cannot figure out what to do with suspects who cannot be charged or set loose, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday.

Gates told lawmakers that he still believes the prison should be closed, but has not found a way to do it.

“Senator, I think the brutally frank answer is we’re stuck. And we’re stuck in several ways,” he told Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. Continue Reading »

A U.S. Navy plane apparently accidentally crossed into Venezuela’s airspace Saturday night, triggering protests from that country, according to a U.S. defense official familiar with the report.

The S-3 Viking aircraft, based in Curacao, was on a training mission in international airspace near Los Roques Island, Venezuela, and experienced “intermittent navigational problems,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue. Continue Reading »

Microsoft Corp. has blamed computer makers for some of the problems users have encountered after updating to Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), according to a company support document.

The document also showed that the “endless reboot” problem some users have reported after installing XP SP3 was neither unanticipated or new; Microsoft updated the document on the same day it released the service pack, and the company indicated that the same thing happened nearly four years ago when it rolled out Windows XP SP2. Continue Reading »

As of December 2006 there wer 2,258,983 prisoners in Federal or State prisons or in local jails. Approximately 2% of those prisoners were in for check fraud. None of those prisoners could hold a checkbook to Chrles Ray Fuller though. Fuller attempted to cash a check at a Forth Worth Bank for $360 billion.

Apparently the cashier was suspicious of the check amount and called the check’s original owner. Fuller’s girlfriend’s mother stated she knew nothing of the check and that Fuller was not authorized to take or cash the check. It seems that she didn’t bother telling the bank employee whether her account balance could cover the amount. Continue Reading »