NEW YORK (OCN) — LucasArts game Fracture™ will not be available until October 2008 for the Xbox 360™ and PLAYSTATION®3 but things are already heating up.
The game takes place in the year 2161 where a series of ecological and seismological disasters have radically altered the planet’s landscape, and a classic ideological clash between the genetically altered [...]
FRANCE (OCN) — Has Angelina Jolie given birth to her two darling little French Fries? No, not yet even tho Entertainment Tonight is reporting so.
“Angelina has not given birth. She is fine, enjoying her home and her family in France” says Jolie’s representative to People magazine.
When the twins are born, they will have 2-year-old Shiloh, [...]
AFRICA (OCN) — Before we could sit down and make our morning coffee, we heard “You Got Mail” over our computer speaker.
As we sat down to check it thru the hundreds of spam (and valid massages and tips from readers), this is what we found.
from: fredrik_emerah
to:
date: Thu, May 29, 2008 at 9:09 AM
subject: MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING
mailed-by:gazeta.pl
FROM THE [...]
MASSACHUSETTS (OCN) — International coffee and donut retailer, Dunkin’ Donuts, will be putting one of their ads on ice. The ad for their Iced Coffee featured Food Network personality Rachael Ray wearing a scarf that said to resemble a kiffiyeh.
As not to loose focus from the ad, Dunkin’ Donuts is having it pulled. For now, Iced [...]
GHANA (OCN) — There is a school that is making the grade and that school with Primary and JSS Curriculum is the Alpha Beta Education Centre.
The mission of the Alpha Beta Education Centre is to help expose children to a rich and varied teaching/learning environment which seeks to broaden their outlook, encourage the best examples [...]
AUSTRALIA (OCN) — It is that time again when everyone is seeking clues for Murder Under The Microscope.
What is it?
So, what is Murder Under The Microscope? It’s a competition open to all schools and is best suited to students in years 5 to 8. MUM, as it is affectionately known, involves student detective groups investigating potential environmental [...]
CALIFORNIA (OCN) — If you have ads appearing on your site from Google, there is a good chance you will be receiving the email below.
Greetings from Google!
We’re happy to announce that the Google content network now
accepts display ads served from qualified third-party vendors.
During this initial release, only ads in English are eligible,
although we look forward [...]
NEW YORK (OCN) — What can Brown do for Blue? Brown can race for Blue. Brown is none other than Big Brown, an American Thoroughbred racehorse and winner of the 2008 Kentucky Derby and 2008 Preakness Stakes.
Brown will be racing for Blue, also known as 30-year-old Kenneth Baribault.
Baribault is a Long Island police officer who [...]
CALIFORNIA (OCN) — It was May 24, 1979 that Dawn of the Dead hit the big screen.
With the tagline “When there’s no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth” viewer were made to laugh and cry with the scary scenes. Tomorrow will be thirty years since is release.
Sites like netflix.com and selvestr.com who makes a [...]
INDIANA (OCN) — What do you do when gas price is at all time high? You go to your backyard and dig a hole for oil.
Some people would say “Isn’t digging for oil a bit crude?” Well Greg Losh doesn’t think so and I must admit that is a slick move on his part.
While others [...]
NEW JERSEY (OCN) — A blogger has release a Female Masturbation Video on the internet and claims that the “video is an instructional video for women Only.” So far, it is reported that the video has been viewed over 2,375 times so one can suspect that men are viewing the video as well.
Below is what [...]
FLORIDA (OCN) — We just got an email from a concerned reader about Career Network Inc (not to be confused with Career Network, Inc. (CNI), based in Crown Point, Indiana, with its principals, Walter Turulis and Kathleen Key) who is looking for a job using the internet.
Below is what they got. Upon scanning the internet [...]
NEW YORK (OCN) — If you are driving around in the State of New York and see the price of gas is advertised at 15 cents per gallon, you don’t need to get your eyes checked but you do need to haul yourself into the station before it runs out of gas.
In a time when gas prices are slowly [...]
NEW YORK (OCN) — In our May 6th article, we asked “Can Thacher Proffitt Without Plunkett?” and today we can confirm that they will.
TP&W (Thacher Proffitt & Wood) has announced that E. Lee Smith has been promoted to partner. Smith partnership will be in effect come July 1st.
So what is Plunkett up to? Plunkett is [...]
CALIFORNIA (OCN) — Although he did his best, David Cook got baked twice my Simon and David Archuleta on American Idol.
In the end, Archuleta lost to Cook by 12 million votes which would have made him the youngest ”American Idol” winner at 17 years, 4 months, and 23 days. Just barely beating Jordin Sparks.
List of past American Idol Winners
1. Kelly [...]
NEW YORK (OCN) — New York locals and visitors are in for a treat. The Bronx Zoo Forum at BronxZooForum.com was launched today. Locals and visitors will be able to gather and share info and tips about the zoo.
If you are planning to visit the Bronx Zoo soon, here are some tips to keep in mind.
1. On [...]
NEW YORK (OCN) — Officials in the State of New York are looking for a trailer filled with cases of feticide.
The shipment was being sent from New Yorkto Georgia via CCX Freight but when the driver Leroy Macklin stopped by Applebee’s to purchase $50 gift cards so he and his family could enter the Bronx [...]
UKRAINE (OCN) — Using the EPPICard logo from the official EPPICard website, the phishing email is sent to victims.
So, who can you contact regarding the EPPICard Scam? Well, if you are a card holder, you should contact Customer Service toll free at 1-800-656-1347 (or the number on the back of your card if its in your [...]
ENGLAND (OCN) –A couple of criminals going by the names “Mr. Fred Martin” and “Mrs. Dianne Thompson” mocked up this fake lottery winning notification from The Camelot Group for an email lottery.
The National Lottery.
3b Olympic Way, Sefton Business Park,
Aintree, Liverpool , L30 1RD
The United Kingdom National Lottery.
Your mail account have been picked as a winner [...]
NEW YORK (OCN) — Is a scam brewing from The State of New York? Well, if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck then it must be.
So far I have noticed that a lot of people are searching for a specific PO Box (PO Box 462 to be exact) in the city [...]
CANADA (OCN) — Willington Pierce Brothers claims you are a “guaranteed cash award recipient” and the grand award recipient will receive US$10,000. Will you ever see it? You will most like help them make that amount of money and more by falling victim to their scam.
Willington Pierce Brothers
International Cash Payment Centre
3219 Yonge Street
Box No. 415
Toronto, Ontario
Canada [...]
NEW YORK (OCN) — If you are a customer of Bank Of America, you need to watch out for the following email scam that is being sent from message@bankofarmerica.com.
If you look closely at the link in the email, it takes you to a page on www.molnarb.hu (which was created by Heidi Wiesenfelder, Ph.D) instead of [...]
ENGLAND (OCN) — In its broadest sense, science (from the Latin scientia, meaning “knowledge”) refers to any systematic knowledge or practice.
Science is also the name for Kieron Harvey a conestant on Big Brother Series 6. Before entering the house he won an award from the BBC for a documentary he produced.
In the closest eviction night [...]
ENGLAND (OCN) — After warning potential victims about new scams, and making Matthew’s personal gmail address public for them to contact us with updates, we have received lot of tips from readers but now we are getting scam letters as well. Are we upset? No as we are able to repost them here for your help. So far, [...]
NEW YORK (OCN) — A year ago, The State of New York lost a maintenance worker and immigrant from Honduras named Fermin Arzu. Arzu, who was 41 years old at the time, lost his life after a car accident between 11:00 pm and midnight on Hewitt Place in the Longwood.
Arzu did not die immediately from [...]
NEW YORK (OCN) – Thursday night, a 37 year old Michael Cooper did the unthinkable. Using a hunting knife, Cooper cuts of his penis to show his girlfriend and nurse, Charlene Smalls that he loves her.
Cooper, a network admin labeled “a player” by female coworkers at the hospital in the Bronx, was trying to get close to Smalls [...]
FLORIDA (OCN) — A quick thinking man is fortunate to be alive. While working late at night on Thursday, May 1st for DRS, (a New Jersey based defense technology supplier) the man became trapped in in the company’s industrial machine.
With not ONE but TWO hands trapped, he had to shake his mobile phone loose from his person so [...]
OHIO (OCN) — Proctor & Gamble announced today that it has fired 500 robots from their plants. Proctor & Gamble prides themselves on producing quality products and in their press release says the robots were “getting rusty” and ”not keeping up to standards.”
A few robots has been with Proctor & Gamble since the company’s inception in [...]
NEW YORK (OCN) — Imagine our surprise earlier this week when were told that ReginaUsvjat.com was registered again and then saw that Regina Usvjat’s photo on TP&W’s website had gone color. It seems TP&W (Thacher Proffitt & Wood) is changing their photos from Black and White to color (in our humble opinion) to give the site a “warmer” feeling [...]
AUSTRALIA (OCN) — ReginaUsvjat.com was registered again today. It was registered in the past and left to expire. Unfortunately, a cached copy for www.reginausvjat.com was not on archive.org so there isn’t away to see if the site was ‘live’ and the content it had.
According to our IT Guy, their robot.txt may have prevented it. So far, the newly regisiterd site is [...]
NEW YORK (OCN) — Here is some rigid news you do not hear of too often. 35 year old Bronx resident, Michael Kicks is in court facing some stiff penalties. Kicks had just had contractors put in a new lawn for him which was the perfect dumping ground for Rex, a German Sheppard who belongs to his 41 [...]
FRANCE (OCN) — Sexually explicit photos of French Olympic swimmer Laure Manaudou have surfaced after her very public break-up with Italian swimmer Luca Marin.
Manaudou currently holds the world records for the 400 m freestyle (Short Course) and 200 m freestyle (Long Course).
She won the gold medal in the women’s 400 m freestyle at the 2004 [...]
PENNSYLVANIA (OCN) — The elections were coming up and Senator Hillary Clinton, (D-NY) and Senator Barack Obama, (D-Ill) were going to be in the State of Pennsylvania campaigning for votes and to cover it, I had to weigh my options since I had some vacation time coming up as well.
So I went at to the New York Forum [...]
NEW YORK (OCN) — Are the new pneumatic tires on your vehicle tired? Even though they appear new, they may be tired out from sitting on a retailers floor and stock room for years.
According to an ABC News Report, some retailers are selling tires that are new but were actually made up to twelve years [...]
BURMA (OCN) — The death toll in Burma is rising drastically, and tens of thousands are also missing. But was it the act of God?
Reports are coming in from the United States saying that the Myanmar Cyclone was artificial and was caused by testing in a secret Chinese Laboratory located in Burma.
According to the 25 page [...]
OHIO (OCN) — Here is something you don’t see and hear everyday. A woman in Youngstown, Ohio is reporting that she found 25-cents in Papa John’s 23-cents Pizzas.
The pizzas, sold by Papa John’s stores in Cleveland, Youngstown, Columbus and Toledo, were offered as part of an apology for unauthorized Lebron James “Crybaby” t-shirts that were [...]
ARIZONA (OCN) — Whatiddo.com is a underhanded marketing ploy for Tellafriendrewards.com. When you try to visit whatiddo.com, the URL cloaks a page that is hosted on tellafriendrewards.com using a frame page so the user has no clue what site they really are on.
Should whatiddo.com get reported (we sent a notification to the host a few hours ago) and taken down by [...]
NEW JERSEY (OCN) — New Jersey inmates are asking for one favor from Essex County and that is no more fava beans.
The fava beans, (see links below for receipes) according to inmates, are giving them excessive gas and abdominal pains. “Some inmates are starting to get lazy.” says Nurse Regina Taylor “Instead of taking part in [...]
CALIFORNIA (OCN) — Have you gotten your Stimulus Check as yet? Well, if you haven’t, there is a good chance that you will get it TWICE. (See the end of this article for I.R.S. links)
That’s right. Due to a computer error, residents in the State of California will receive not ONE but TWO Stimulus Checks.
Those who receive [...]
NEW YORK (OCN) — Here is a new scam floating on the internet. If you have a resume posted online, chances are you will be called from one of the numbers or receive an email to go to one of the sites below.
We notified the host (one of which was Yahoo) and hope all sites [...]
NEW YORK (OCN) — For more than 25 years, Kevin J. Plunkett was an attorney at the white-show law firm of Thacher, Proffitt & Wood.
Recently, we learned that Plunkett is no longer an attorney (and partner) with TP&W (Thacher Proffitt & Wood) but is a corporation counsel for The City of Rye and an attorney for [...]
LOUISIANA (OCN) — Several inmates are planning to sue the Louisiana State Penitentiary. The suit claims that the new walls and fences that are being built are not to scale.
“This is terrible” says one inmate. “How are we supposed to get out of here easily if the walls are not to scale?”
To make things a bit [...]
NEW YORK (OCN) — Do you have hidden cameras to spy on your nanny while you are away? Come Sunday, June 1, 2008, you will have to get them removed from your home or inform your nanny of their use.
In 2007, Sophia and her husband Michael Shire installed nanny cams in their Long Island home to [...]
NEW YORK (OCN) — Has your parents stop asking you “How was school today?” and other similar questions? Well, there is a simple reason for that.
Parents now have a new arsenal called ParentCONNECTxp. ParentCONNECTxp is a software program that provides parents (and guardians) access to their student’s academic records, attendance and transcript information.
Schools can add [...]
CALIFORNIA (OCN) — Have you been trying to get on YouTube or notice an embedded video on a web site has disappeared?
Well, you can blame Google for it. On November 13, 2006, Google acquired video sharing website YouTube but while dotting their “I’s” and crossing their “T’s” in the acquisition, they overlooked the expiration date for YouTube’s domain [...]
NEW YORK (OCN) — Where have all the Emos gone to? Emo is a style of rock music which describes several independent variations of music with common stylistic roots.
As such, use of the term has been the subject of much debate. In the mid-1980s, the term emo described a subgenre of hardcore punk which originated [...]
TEXAS (OCN) — A Crowley man was trying to chase his dreams in a big way. 21 year-old Charles Ray Fuller was chasing his dreams of starting a record label.
To help in his chase, Fuller is alledged to have gone to a Chase Bank and tried cash a check for US$360 billion. When the check [...]
NEW YORK (OCN) — So you landed the perfect job by going to places such as Job.com, Monster.com and my favorite Careerbuilder.com. So are you on easy street? Frankly, no. Here are some cubicle dangers to watch out for.
The Chair
When you sit in an office chair for six to eight hours, you can cause yourself [...]
CALIFORNIA (OCN) — Miley is in Cyrus.. err serious trouble. The 15-year-old actress and singer-songwriter, who is best known as Hannah Montana, has edgy photos in a magazine.
The photos appeared in an April 2008 issue of the American magazine of culture, fashion, and politics called Vanity Fair.
So did Miley hide and take the photos? Actually no. [...]
NEW YORK (OCN) — Shop Honda is Honda’s latest marketing ad to get users to visit their official web site to see pictures, features and specs, current offers and more.
Although the advertisement directs users to go to Yahoo Search so they can find a special link, surfers who are dead set on using nothing but Google’s Search can still [...]
