Woman Sells First Spot in iPad 2 Line For $900. College student Amanda Foote has turned the die-hard techie tradition of waiting hours, sometimes days, to be the first to purchase a new Apple product into a lucrative odd job. After nearly 41 hours of waiting in line for the iPad 2 release at Apple's flagship store in New York, she sold her number one spot for $900. Foote sat through an entire day of rain, had a stranger help himself to a box of doughnuts she was eating, and slept a total of 3 hours and 10 minutes in the time between when she got in line at 5 p.m. Wednesday and when she left it at 9:00 a.m. Friday. She plans to buy tickets to a Lady Gaga concert with the cash that she earned for her trouble. The buyer, app developer Hazem Sayed, says he is planning on leaving for a business trip Friday evening and wants to have an iPad 2 (which starts at $499) with him. He's not alone in paying for the cachet of being among the first to purchase apple products.
"We like the competition, the atmosphere, meeting people," Cruz says. No, the “supermoon” didn’t cause the Japanese earthquake. [UPDATE: I have posted an article with more info on the earthquake and where you can donate money toward the relief efforts.] Japan suffered a massive earthquake last night, measuring nearly magnitude 9. This is one of the largest quakes in its history, causing widespread and severe damage. Before I say anything else, I’m greatly saddened by the loss of life in Japan, and I’ll be donating to disaster relief organizations to help them get in there and do what they can to give aid to those in need. While there isn’t much I can do to directly help the situation in Japan, I do hope I can help mitigate the panic and worry that can happen due to people blaming this earthquake on the so-called "supermoon" — a date when the Moon is especially close to the Earth at the same time it’s full.
Despite what a lot of people are saying, there is no way this earthquake was caused by the Moon. So, how can I be so sure? The gravity of the situation Here’s the deal. Time and tide The pseudoscience Conclusion. Sail by the wind! Where do you find intelligent people. New Mexico’s Bet on Space Tourism Hits a Snag. Richard Dawkins on militant atheism. First ever aerial footage of uncontacted Amazon tribe released. New film footage released today shows uncontacted Indians on the Brazil-Peru border in never-seen-before detail.
It is the first-ever aerial footage of an uncontacted community. Ms Anderson said today, ‘What comes across very powerfully from this amazing footage is how healthy and confident these people appear. I hope they can be left alone – but that will only happen if the loggers are stopped.’ —A still from the new footage of an uncontacted Amazon tribe in Brazil. © BBC/FUNAI/Survival The footage was filmed by the BBC in collaboration with the Brazilian government, for the new BBC 1 ‘Human Planet’ series (broadcast 3 Feb).
Global coverage of the story has already pushed the Peruvian authorities into action – they have announced they will work with Brazil’s Indian Affairs department (FUNAI) to protect the area more effectively. The Indians’ survival is in jeopardy as an influx of illegal loggers invades the Peru side of the border. Notes for editors In the US: No. What next? Work Less. This is the second installment in our new series Fully Carsonified, where we reveal how we work. Today we’ll explain how and why we work a 4-day week. Have you ever noticed that right before you go on holiday you get double the amount done that you would on a normal week? Why? Because you have a time constraint. You have to get all of your work done before you leave for holiday otherwise those cocktails by the pool just won’t taste as sweet will they?
You’re sacrificing your time now so that you can enjoy it later. When we tell people that at Carsonified we only work 4 days a week (Mon-Thurs, 9am – 6pm) then the general assumption is that we don’t get as much done as other companies. Infact, you can. Humans are in general efficient beings. Most offices work Mon – Fri, somewhere between the hours of 9am and 6pm. Of course it doesn’t have to be Fridays that are non-work days. Common questions and answers “I have SOOO much to do I can hardly fit it into five days nevermind four!” Lawrence M. Krauss about the Beginning and End of the Universe / 381 seconds interview. Star Wars Episode IV Retold in Iconoscope. NEW: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back also completed! Click Here to View it Have you ever wondered how Star Wars might be viewed in hieroglyphics? Or what if the movie was remade by IKEA? Well, wonder no more - I've sorted it out for you. This Illustration shows how the story we all know and love can be distilled down into icons - no words are used (apart from the "SOS" icon).
I know I've missed a few scenes from this - but I had to cut it down somewhere or it would have gone on for another 20 steps. And I was getting tired. I'm fragile: I work in the Creative Industry. Enjoy. Epilogue: After posting this illustration to a few blogs it went hyper-viral. The one per cent solution - People & Power. Filmmaker Sorious Samura takes us to the frontline of the global war against the crippling disease polio, where hopes for a final eradication of the scourge are being undermined by an explosive and deadly new outbreak in Congo-Brazzaville. Polio is on the verge of eradication. Since 1988, years of unprecedented success by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative has seen the number of cases around the world decrease by 99 per, but the goal to guarantee the cessation of all 're-established poliovirus transmissions by the end of 2010' has failed.
The final one per cent is proving hard to beat. Strains of the virus linger in parts of the developing world, and localised epidemics can still strike unexpectedly. Ten years ago, Congo-Brazzaville thought it had seen the last of polio but since last October, 220 people have died, and a further 368 people are suffering from paralysis. What will it take to stamp out polio entirely? The 6 Crappiest Interview Questions. All artwork and content on this site is Copyright © 2015 Matthew Inman. Please don't steal. TheOatmeal.com was lovingly built using CakePHP All artwork and content on this site is Copyright © 2015 Matthew Inman. Please don't steal. TheOatmeal.com was lovingly built using CakePHP. Why is a manhole cover round? A Microsoft interview question. - Brian Groth's Life at Microsoft.
Theo Jansen's Strandbeests - Wallace & Gromit's World of Invention Episode 1 Preview - BBC One. Video: One Dutch Man's Huge Wind-Powered Beach Creatures - Action. MTA.ME.