Archive for May, 2008
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 [...]
May 31st, 2008 | Posted in Local | Comments Off
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 [...]
May 30th, 2008 | Posted in International | Comments Off
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 [...]
May 29th, 2008 | Posted in International | Comments Off
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, [...]
May 28th, 2008 | Posted in National | Comments Off
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 [...]
May 27th, 2008 | Posted in International | Comments Off
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 [...]
May 26th, 2008 | Posted in International | Comments Off
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 [...]
May 25th, 2008 | Posted in National | Comments Off
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 [...]
May 24th, 2008 | Posted in Local | Comments Off
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 [...]
May 23rd, 2008 | Posted in National | Comments Off
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. [...]
May 23rd, 2008 | Posted in National | Comments Off
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 [...]
May 23rd, 2008 | Posted in National | Comments Off
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 [...]
May 23rd, 2008 | Posted in National | Comments Off
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 [...]
May 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Local | Comments Off
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? [...]
May 21st, 2008 | Posted in Local | Comments Off
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 [...]
May 21st, 2008 | Posted in National | Comments Off
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. [...]
May 21st, 2008 | Posted in Local | Comments Off
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 [...]
May 21st, 2008 | Posted in Local | Comments Off
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 [...]
May 21st, 2008 | Posted in International | Comments Off
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 [...]
May 20th, 2008 | Posted in International | Comments Off
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 [...]
May 20th, 2008 | Posted in Local | Comments Off
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 [...]
May 20th, 2008 | Posted in International | Comments Off
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 [...]
May 20th, 2008 | Posted in Local | Comments Off
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 [...]
May 19th, 2008 | Posted in International | Comments Off
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, [...]
May 19th, 2008 | Posted in International | Comments Off
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 [...]
May 18th, 2008 | Posted in Local | Comments Off
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 [...]
May 17th, 2008 | Posted in Local | Comments Off
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 [...]
May 16th, 2008 | Posted in National | Comments Off
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 [...]
May 15th, 2008 | Posted in National | Comments Off
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 [...]
May 14th, 2008 | Posted in Local | Comments Off
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 [...]
May 14th, 2008 | Posted in International | Comments Off
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 [...]
May 12th, 2008 | Posted in Local | Comments Off