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In 1993, Tamien Bain, aka “BAiNG The Locksmith”, held up a McDonald’s at gunpoint.
Tamien was 14, and spent 12 years in prison for his crime.
Now 29, Tamien is one of five finalists for the McDonald’s Big Mac Chant competition, out of a field of over 1,000 submissions, and if he wins, he will fly out to Los Angeles where he will record his jingle for a national TV spot.
You just can’t make stuff like this up.
[MySpace - McDonald's Big Mac Chant]
[Via: Sun Sentinel Via: Neatorama]
In 1970, Emma Ely bought a brand new Chevy Camaro SS 350. 38 years later, she’s racked up a total of 1,104,000 miles on the well worn V8.
Assuming a purchase price of $3,500, that means Emma has paid about 3/10 of a cent per mile for the car! To put that in perspective, if you pay $30,000 for a car and then drive it for 100,000 miles, you’ll have paid 30 cents per mile, or 100 times as much as Emma!
What’s even more amazing is that the engine, transmission, and rear end are all original, and have never required a major overhaul.
According to Emma, she gets the oil changed every 3,000 miles (that’s 368 oil changes during the life of the car) and attributes the car’s longevity to her careful attention to any maintenance issues.
Talk about getting your money’s worth!
[Via: Jalopnik]
Apparently Iran is not interested in threatening the world with its missile prowess after all.
Instead, it’s decided to impress everyone with its mastery of Photoshop’s clone stamp tool.
If you happened to have missed it, an image of four Iranian missiles shooting skyward circled through the media recently, with small, local outlets jumping on board and publishing the image on their front page. Guilty as charged included The Los Angeles Times, The Financial Times, The Chicago Tribune, and several other newspapers, as well as BBC News, MSNBC, Yahoo! News, NYTimes.com, and many other major news Web sites. What they all failed to notice was that if you look closely, a few of those missiles look a bit too much alike.
Either someone in Sepah News decided that three missiles just wasn’t enough for the shock and awe that they were going for, or an overzealous intern got a bit too happy with their new found skills, but either way, it just goes to show you that even the most basic photo editing skills are enough to fool news editors in need of a few extra sales.
Anybody want to buy my picture of Bush holding a baby in his arms and a grenade in his teeth?
[Via: New York Times Blog]
Sadly, the best comedian to ever stand on stage has left us; so in George Carlin’s honor, I’d just like to say…Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, Cocksucker, Motherfucker, and Tits.
RIP George.
I Heart T-Shirts is giving away two Scribtee/Shirtcity gift certificates to random fans of the page, and all you have to do to enter is vote for your favorite Scribtee design (or any design for that matter) so make sure you become a fan of the page and vote for your chance to win.
Today is Firefox 3 Download Day 2008, and Mozilla is trying to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloads in a single 24-hour period by asking everyone to download the new Firefox 3 today.
Help out by clicking the link below.
I’m going on a work related trip to Chicago today, so DYH is going to be light on the updates, but in place of my normal posts, I’ve added tons of cool/great/awesome/semi-lame links from my “write about this one day” pile to the DidntYouHear.com Facebook Page.
If you haven’t already, be sure to become a fan of the page, since I’m going to try to use it more often as a place to put all of the interesting links that I find that I just don’t have time to write a full post about.
See you there!
[Image Via: Build Your Own Chicago]
The Blogosphere got in a tizzy recently after Google decided to change its favicon (the little icon in your address bar that’s unique to each site).
To address those that demanded answers from the big G, Google has written a post about the new favicon, and explained that “the reason is that we wanted to develop a set of icons that would scale better to some new platforms like the iPhone and other mobile devices”.
Personally, I’m not a fan of the little G, and would have preferred that they stick with the big G, but apparently they’ve got some goals in mind, since they “tried in total more than 300 permutations”.
Apparently they wanted something distinctive and noticeable, as well as something that embraced the colorfulness of the logo, yet wouldn’t date itself, and considering the amount of feedback they received from people who noticed the change, I think they succeeded.
Rest assured though, if you can’t stand the new favicon, let them know, because they “really value feedback form users and want to hear your ideas”.
Have you ever wanted to go into space? (Is there anyone that hasn’t?)
If you have a passion for space, and would like to share your enthusiasm with others, then the National Space Society and Virgin Galactic would like to make you a Space Ambassador, and one lucky space ambassador will even get a chance to fly into space aboard a Virgin Galactic space flight.
If this sounds like a kick ass idea to you, then head on over to the National Space Society website and register for the NSS Space Ambassador Program before it’s too late, because space isn’t going to wait around forever you know.
[NSS Space Ambassador Program]
[Via: Wired]
Reminder: The new Facebook project that I’m working on called I Heart T-Shirts is doing a giveaway tomorrow of a $25 Threadless Gift Certificate. To enter, just head on over to Facebook and click “Become A Fan”.
