Jeremy Taylor
Facebook Costs American Companies a Staggering $280 Billion a Year
Checking your Facebook status could lead to your company’s downfall.
Okay, that may be a bit of an exaggeration, but tech blogger Michael Fitzgerald was able to calculate that workers wasting time on the social networking site costs US companies $280 billion in annual productivity losses.
Solange Knowles Accuses Cop of Trying to Deflate Her Giant Banana
Perhaps in an attempt to upstage big sis Beyonce’s pregnancy, singer Solange Knowles had gotten herself into a bizarre incident involving Miami Beach police, accusations of racism and a five-foot inflatable banana.
Stolen Police Car Joyride Captured on Dashboard Camera [VIDEO]
When police pulled over Arthur Lee Thompson, he immediately denied doing anything wrong. But he sure was about to. The 38-year-old Summerville, South Carolina man begin to fight with the officer, and in the confusion, Thompson managed to jump into the cop’s unoccupied cruiser, and take it on a terrifying 100 mph-plus joyride right down the middle of a busy two-lane road.
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ESPN Envisions a White Michael Vick [PICTURE]
ESPN The Magazine has dedicated its entire football preview issue to controversial QB Michael Vick, including a feature which poses the question, “What if Michael Vick were white?”
It’s complicated, concludes the thought piece’s author, Touré. What’s also complicated is the status of the article’s photo — a digital rendering of Vick as a white man — on ESPN’s website.
Did Barack Obama Bust Out a ‘Fresh Prince’ Handshake? [VIDEO]
A video of Barack Obama doing a ‘Fresh Prince’-style handshake with a constituent has been circulating the internet this morning.
TalkO’Clock Offers Wake-Up Calls From Strangers [VIDEO]
Social networking site TalkO’Clock is now offering up a service that allows strangers to provide wake-up calls for other strangers.
Shapely Sideline Reporter Asks Soccer Player to Autograph Her Butt [VIDEO]
Viviana Angulo, a sideline reporter in Costa Rica, ended her interview with soccer player Wilson Munoz by dropping trou, turning around, and asking Munoz to autograph her thonged-bottom.
Loyal Dog Won’t Leave Casket of Fallen Navy Seal Master in Heartbreaking Pictures
In a final act of loyalty, Hawkeye, the dog of slain Navy SEAL U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Jon T. Tumilson walked up to his fallen master’s casket during the funeral in Rockford, Iowa, and then laid mournfully down beside the body for the rest of the proceedings.
LeBron James Is Scared of the High Dive [VIDEO]
LeBron James looked like a man who’d bit off more than he could chew after he climbed to the top of the (medium) high dive at a pool in Barcelona, Spain.
Who’s Hosting the MTV Video Music Awards This Year?
The MTV Video Music Awards, which air live on Sunday, will be missing an important part of the traditional award show experience: a host.
Car Commercial Being Filmed in Virginia Captures East Coast Earthquake [VIDEO]
The 5.8 earthquake that struck yesterday gave folks all over the middle part of the East Coast something to breathlessly discuss. Yet, no one seems to have been seriously injured in the shake. In other words, BEST EARTHQUAKE EVER!
In Chantilly, Virginia, which is not too far from the quake’s epicenter, an auto shop was shooting a commercial when the ground went wobbly. Here is the footage from the
Singer-Songwriter Nick Ashford Dead at Age 70
Nickolas Ashford, who along with his wife Valerie Simpson made up the Motown songwriting team Ashford & Simpson, succumbed to throat cancer Monday at age 70.
The duo penned such classic hits as ‘Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,’ ‘Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thing’ and ‘I’m Every Woman,’ and had their music recorded by Diana Ross, Ray Charles, Whitney Houston, Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye, amo