Oil Predicted $25 Barrel

Merrill-Lynch has projected that oil will hit $25 a barrel in the near future.

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rocket ride for $95K

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — A Danish adventurer is first in line to ride aboard a privately funded, two-seat rocket ship designed by a California rocket maker to fly about 37 miles above Earth.

Xcor Aerospace said today that Per Wimmer, an investment banker based in London, will be the first passenger aboard Lynx, a space tourism vehicle designed to take off and land like an airplane. He’s also an investor in the Mojave, Calif.-based company.

Wimmer hopes his flight will come in 2011, after a series of test flights. Officials said tickets are selling for $95,000 each and reservations have been made for 20 flights.

Xcor’s main competitor is building SpaceShipTwo, an eight-seat craft that will take passengers some 62 miles above Earth for $200,000 each.

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teacher advertises on tests

A teacher in San Diego is selling ad space on tests. This has been a long time coming. We should also be selling ad space inside of lockers to raise money for schools. Lunch trays. Sports fields and uniforms. Chalkboards.

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Kanye=Rainman

Kanye raps (reads: “talks”) about clothes, cars, music, and other things related to Kanye.

You can’t stop listening, and you won’t. It’s like 40 minutes long and the man is a complete ego-maniac. Every bit of success that anyone has is built on ego-mania, by the way, so if you’re hating then you’ve written your own check. Bitch.

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kids to feed

About sick of hearing where LeBron might be going in two years. You know what would be great? If everyone took into account the people who have invested so much in, I don’t know, watching the next two years of basketball. It’s entirely possible that Cleveland could demolish every team en route to the finals this year. LeBron gets crazy post-season, let’s not forget.

This, however, was the first time that James had entered the building with the locals having legitimate reason to believe their future savior was setting foot in his future home. The game came four nights after the Knicks made two major trades that set the course for the future direction of their franchise, clearing $27 million of salary-cap room for 2010-11 when they traded away Zach Randolph and Jamal Crawford.

fly in 2093

The folks at Finnair seem to be under the impression that this the wave of the future for air travel. I’m confused, but in 2093 won’t we have teleportation devices, or the ability to move through the ground like Rayden? Also, how small minded is it to think that planes in 85 years will look like planes? Obviously saucers are the revolution. Scrap it gents.

Pirates steal oil

Pirates still exist:

In what may be their most brazen attack yet, Somali pirates hijacked a Saudi supertanker stocked with oil Saturday, the US Navy said today.

The incident raises questions about the ability of international efforts to thoroughly monitor the dangerous waters off Somalia’s coast, where such attacks have increased by 75 percent this year. Saturday’s seizure is believed to be the biggest ship pirates have nabbed, and the hijacking occurred farther off the coast of Africa than pirates have roamed thus far. Now, “even the world’s largest vessels are vulnerable”. SOURCE

Batman Sued

The town of Batman, in Turkey, is suing Christopher Nolan and Warner Brothers over the use of Batman.

Huseyin Kalkan, the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party mayor of Batman, has accused “The Dark Knight” producers of using the city’s name without permission.

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The cost of an island

I was watching Cribs featuring Richard Branson, founder of Virgin, and became obsessed with his island.

I did a little research and found out that he purchased the island for $100K. $100K. He just showed up, they wanted $5mm, he offered $100K, was shooed away, then they came crawling back later and agreed.

Just let it sink in for a moment that Richard Branson bought a piece of the planet in the middle of an ocean for $100K.

Circuit City Sucks

Circuit City is cutting like thousands of jobs and 155 locations, all in an effort to make the increasingly spendthrift American consumer happy while shopping. This is exactly what we’re NOT going for.

Circuit City sucks. You guys want to cut costs? Convert your space-gobbling super centers into online stores and convert the physical sales jobs into online sales jobs. Amazon et al are killing you anyway. Jerks.

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