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Multiple news sources are reporting that another oil rig explosion has taken place in the Gulf of Mexico. This time it’s a platform owned by Mariner Energy called the Vermilion Rig 38. Located 80 miles off the coast of Louisiana, the platform explosion involved 13 oil workers and one has been injured.
A platform owned by Mariner Energy Inc. in the Gulf of Mexico, 80 miles off the Louisiana coast, was struck by an explosion, U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Casey Ranel said in a telephone interview.
U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Bill Colclough has also told CNN that workers are in water immersion suits and are waiting to be rescued. He also said that apparently there is “no product” located at this rig so hopefully pollution will not occur as it did in the BP oil spill.
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A data analyst was found dead at the American Apparel headquarters, which is located in downtown Los Angelas, California. Danarichie Lyndon Sindo, a 44 year old Filipino native, complained of feeling sick and vomiting. He went up to the roof to get some air, which actually can’t be healthy with all of LA’s smog.
At around 5:00PM yesterday, August 31st 2010, Sindo was found in one of the headquarter’s fifth floor bathrooms.
American Apparel is going through some tough financial times, and this story certainly does not help their public relations. There’s no indication at this time that American Apparel is at fault for Sindo’s death.
(via gawker)
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Mike Wise from the Washington Post says he was trying to prove a point about “no one checking facts” anymore in journalism. So, he went ahead and fabricated a story that Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger would be suspended from the NFL for five games due to his alleged assault on a Georgia College Student. Well, the suspension is not true, and now Mike Wise is receiving a lot of backlash. He certainly did prove his point as a bunch of other news entities picked up the story without checking their facts first!
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It mostly comes from the design community, but man, tons of people really hate the Comic Sans font. Earlier this year, Dan Gilbert, the owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers, used Comic Sans in a scathing message to Lebron James. He was ridiculed by the internet for days following this message.
The font was designed by Vincent Connare and released by Microsoft in 1994. I wonder if they’ll ever discontinue its use due to the groundswell of negativity it’s received.
Do you ever use Comic Sans?
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Blockbuster Video has lost $1 Billion dollars over two years and will be filing bankruptcy next month. Wow. Their plan moving forward? Close down 500 stores and change their model to a Netflix/Redbox type of business. Apparently movie studios want Blockbuster Video to remain open to compete with Netflix and Redbox. Good luck with that.
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This is just crazy. In Norfolk, Virginia, an agency exists called the Norfolk Community Services Board. Said agency is partially funded by Virginia’s Department of Behavioral Health and Development Services. This board is one of 40 or so across the state that exist to help adults and children with mental illness, emotional disturbances, and the like. Apparently, these boards are required by state law but each city really has no accountability beyond giving the boards funding. Norfolk’s board was given $4 million dollars for their budget this past year.
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A McDonald’s hamburger is one durable piece of food. Martyn Poliakoff, a University of Nottingham chemistry professor decided to see what would happen when the hamburger was dipped in hydrochloric acid for 3.5 hours. Hydrochloric acid can be found in everyone’s stomach and is used by the human body to digest food for use as energy. The result of this experiment does not yield a whole lot of deterioration. This is only one video in Nottingham’s Periodic Table of Videos series on YouTube.
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Funniest site of the day goes to…Can’t Come To Work! Can’t Come to Work is a blog of sick day excuses (and maybe some real stories) coming in via email to employers. The worst ones are from workers who haven’t even begun their jobs yet. Worst.
Here’s a couple good ones about a dog eating staples and getting hit by a cab:
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