22May 2009 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

Centralia Pennsylvania, a strange place

Oddly Enough
Centralia is a borough in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States. Its population has dwindled from over 1,000 residents in 1981 to 12 in 2005 and 9 in 2007, as a result of a mine fire burning beneath the borough since 1962. Centralia is now the least-populous municipality in Pennsylvania, with four fewer residents than the borough of S.N.P.J. Courtesy of Centralia Pennsylvania on WikiPedia. read more about this by clicking here.
Read More
04Apr 2009 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

German woman divorces husband for cleaning too much

News, Oddly Enough
BERLIN (Reuters) – A German woman has divorced her husband because she was fed up with him cleaning all the time. German media reported the wife got through 15 years of marriage putting up with the man's penchant for doing household chores, tidying up and rearranging the furniture. But she ran out of patience when he knocked down and rebuilt a wall at their home when it got dirty, Christian Kropp, court judge in the central town of Sondershausen, said Thursday. "I'd never had anyone seek a divorce for this," he said. (Reporting by Franziska Scheven; editing by Myra MacDonald) Courtesy: Yahoo News Read the Original Story.
Read More
03Apr 2009 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

Domino’s sent 11,000 free pizzas

News, Oddly Enough
CINCINNATI – The Domino's pizza chain has given away nearly 11,000 free pizzas because of a never-used promotion that a Web customer stumbled upon. Tim McIntyre, spokesman for Ann Arbor, Mich.-based Domino's, said Wednesday that the company had prepared an Internet coupon for an ad campaign that was considered in December but never activated. McIntyre said somebody discovered that the code word "bailout" was good for a free medium pizza ordered online. The information quickly spread Monday night on the Web, until the code was deactivated Tuesday morning. The owner of 14 Domino's locations in the Cincinnati area says his stores gave away more than 600 pies. Owner John Glass told The Cincinnati Enquirer that Domino's promised to reimburse him for the pizzas. Information from: The Cincinnati Enquirer, http://www.enquirer.com Courtesy:…
Read More
20Feb 2009 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

Woman emailed party invites in her sleep

News, Oddly Enough
As featured on YAHOO.COM today, according to a case described in the medical journal Sleep Medicine, a 44-year-old sleepwalker logged onto her computer and emailed out party invitations to friends. Fortean Times magazine looks at this case and several other bizarre episodes of somnambulism. The mails themselves were perhaps not up to the woman’s waking standard; each was in a random mix of upper and lower case characters, badly formatted and containing odd expressions. One read: “Come tomorrow and sort this hell hole out. Dinner and drinks, 4.pm. Bring wine and caviar only.” Another said simply: “What the…” The writers of the report have dubbed this new variation of sleepwalking ‘zzz-mailing’. They say: “We believe writing an email after turning the computer on, connecting to the Internet and remembering the…
Read More
25Dec 2008 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

GoDaddy Uses Standard Tactics To Warehouse Domains

News, Oddly Enough, Thoughts
I found this really great article that I am about to share here. Robin Wauters TechCrunch.com Wednesday, December 3, 2008; 8:52 PM Having working in the domain name industry myself for a couple of years, I've always been intrigued by the fact that there's such a big business formed around something as trivial as a bunch of letters and numbers used to 'translate' IP addresses. And when there's a big business in something, you just know there will be a grey area as well where ethics are left at the door sometimes. Andrew Allemann over at Domain Name Wire has been doing an excellent job researching the hoops The Go Daddy Group jumps through to keep its shady tactics outside of the public view, resulting in this great blog post.…
Read More