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LifestreamThe Swedish branch of McDonald’s is having financial problems. Now that is reason enough to celebrate. Sales are down and net income has virtually been erased. Seven burger joints have closed.
This is the first time since McDonald’s was established in Sweden in 1973 that they have been forced to actually close restaurants.
McDonald’s of course fail […]
Archive for October, 2005
Scientology
Mock scientology website threatened - www.scienTOMogy.info hit a bit of snag last week when the Church of Scientology threatened court action against the New Zealand-based Web site. Once again proving that legal action is second nature to the so called religion.
Hurricane advantage - The COS is swarming US hurricane struck areas adding insult to injury. […]
“End Of An Era.” This certainly came out of the blue. Not that I’ve been following them that closely but still. You’d think it would be revealed in a less abrupt manner. Hard to know what to make of this. Tarja apparently got a letter handed to her, a letter that was later released to […]
Amazing trash journalism from the corporate apologists over at Forbes. Filled with uneducated guesses, blatant stupidity and a flair for conspiracy theories.
Forbes via Boing Boing - Web logs are the prized platform of an online lynch mob spouting liberty but spewing lies, libel and invective. Their potent allies in this pursuit include Google and Yahoo.
They […]
It would be great if game releases were spread more evenly across the year. As it stands it’s hard to keep up. Concessions have to be made, games have to take priority over real life. And you still don’t have time to look at every release. It’s crazy.
Recently we’ve had Quake 4, F.E.A.R., Pro Evolution […]
We’re all guilty of this from time to time I suppose but lately it seems that the social aspects of the wired world have been twisted and turned into some sort of conformity machine. The intentions are good I am sure, but in the end it shapes the once chaotic web into a likeness of […]
It’s out and it is getting rave reviews.
IGN — 9.4/10 — The original Civilization is among the most enjoyable, influential games of all time. Its sequels have sought to build upon the basic model by adding greater levels of complexity and streamlining the interface. And though the sequels were definitely great games, they were still […]
Not breaking news perhaps but Rob Malda, aka CmdrTaco, of Slashdot fame, got his screen name (”CmdrTaco”) revoked in World of Warcraft because it violated Blizzard’s hoity-toity policy.
Slashdot - My Azgalor Paladin is running through Stormwind when I get a message from a GM proclaiming that my account is in violation of Blizzard policy […]
“The most successful society the world has ever known.” Not my words but rather those of Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee. I wont argue with the conclusion though. Le Monde came to basically the same conclusion recently when comparing the Scandinavian model to that of the rest of Europe and the USA.
Guardian - The prime minister […]
Thankfully, this nefarious practise has so far been limited to a few countries, like the US. But like all bad things, laws tend to migrate. Remember where we first got stricter patent and copyright laws from?
Medical Informatics Insider - A new study in this week’s Science reveals that a full 20 percent of the human […]
