An offbeat cellular phone number, 6666666, was auctioned for a reported 10 million Qatari riyals, making it the most expensive phone number ever sold in Qatar. Bids narrowed down to two competitors out of a total of eight vying to possess the unusual seven digit phone number containing only the number 6.
Abbreviations, acronyms, and memes fall in and out of fashion on the Internet all of the time. Today’s “I can has cheeseburger?” is often tomorrow’s “All your base are belong to us.” Some stand the test of time, including phrases like “not safe for work” (NSFW), which is used in forums, chatrooms, and blogs across the world to warn folks that something they’re about to see could give the boss fits. Late last month, offbeat news site Fark.com filed for a trademark on the phrase with the US Patent and Trademark Office.
In future, maybe some one will try to file a trademark for the word “HUH” or “LOL”? Maybe.
No joke! Health advocates are furious about a McDonald’s ad appearing on the report cards of Seminole County, Florida elementary schools.
The ad promises free Happy Meals to kids with good grades, despite promises by McDonald’s that they would ” ban advertising to children under 12 or limit them to food and snacks that meet certain nutritional guidelines.”
In Kenya a new species of giant spitting cobra was found, measuring nearly nine feet and possessing enough venom to kill at least 15 people, has been discovered in Kenya.
The cobras were the world’s largest and had been identified as unique. The species has been named Naja Ashei after James Ashe, who founded Bio-Ken snake farm on Kenya’s tropical coast where the gigantic serpents are found
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