In an new experiment Amazon.com has given more than 200 college students Kindle e-reading devices loaded with digital versions of their textbooks. Why not load the Kindle with what the students will really use? - Cliffs notes.
Roman Polanski is in a Swiss jail and is finishing work on his latest film from his cell. How about finishing his latest sentence.
The FBI has begun using facial-recognition technology to compare millions of motorists driver’s license photos with pictures of convicts. They are trying to find the one criminal in America who actually looks like his driver’s license photo.
President Obama wants to give people on Social Security a $250 payment to make up for no cost of living increase in Social Security next year. Grandpa can use the $250 to bribe the death panels not to pull the plug on grandma.
Actor Roger Moore who played James Bond turned 82 this week. At 82, to keep it active, he’s required every year to renew his license to kill.
An artist in Straubing, Germany has placed 1,250 garden gnomes with their arms outstretched in the Hitler salute in the towns marketplace. That’s how these things start. Before you know it they’ll show up in Poland, France….Hungary.
A 54-year-old woman in Michigan was arrested for calling police and reporting the theft of her marijuana plants. They were potted plants.
Al Pacino says that when he was 20 he lived in Sicily and an older woman provided him with food and housing in return for his servicing her ……Hoo-Ha!
A painting created by a 19th century German artist and sold two years ago for about $19,000 is now thought to be done by Leonardo da Vinci. Art experts say it’s valued at more than $150 million. It’s a painting by numbers. 150 million numbers.
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said “There’s going to be swift action” after celebrity Web site TMZ.com posted photographs showing his wife Maria Shriver on a phone while driving. The TMZ photographer will surly enjoy his new job as a wedding photographer in Tijuana.
