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Best ice cream in America not just from a shop (Gadling)

May 31st 2011 6:46PM Anybody remember Velvet Freeze in St Louis? Theire absolute best flavor was Gold Coast Chocolate - the darkest, richest chocolate you'd ever hope to find. I went back 10 years after I left college determined to try it again, and deathly afraid that time had magnified my recollection of how good it was. It was every bit as wonderful as I had remembered it to be!
Alas, the last time I went back to St Louis (April 2001) it was nowhere to be found. Sigh...

Yes, Even Apple Screws Up Sometimes (AOL Small Business)

Mar 31st 2011 1:51PM I worked for an Apple Dealer at the time. The Lisa and the MAC were engineered by competing teams at Apple, not consecutively. The Lisa, among other things, had a terribly unstable operating system. Apple was so concerned about parking the heads of the hard drive before powering down (in the primitive days) that the power switch was designed to turn control, once the unit was on, over to the operating system in order to include a parking utility as part of the power-off process. Unfortunately, it would frequently lock up, and the only way to get it to turn off was to pull the plug from the wall!
After a year or so, the original Macintosh (with 128K RAM) was updated to the "Fat MAC" which had a whopping 512K RAM. I joked one day that the next thing Apple would introduce would be a downgrade kit to convert a Lisa into a Macintosh, and they'd call it the "Obese MAC". Darned if that isn't exactly what they did a week or so later!

Fixing Your Credit After a Bankruptcy to Apply for a Mortgage (AOL Real Estate)

Mar 7th 2011 5:20PM I had a bankruptcy in 1981. After my divorce, I decided to build more credit. I wanted a VCR ($600 in those days for a really crappy one). I had the money to buy it outright, but I wanted to finance half of it. I talked to 4 levels of management at the finance company, all the way up to the regional office in San Francisco, offering to put down cash for the amount financed in an escrow account to guarantee no risk for the lender, at each level emphasizing "Work with me!". They finally agreed, (WITHOUT requiring the escrow account!) and it was solely on the basis of that successful payoff that I qualified for a mortgage 3 years later.

Albertson's gives big savings to some shoppers, big nothing to everyone else (WalletPop)

May 21st 2009 2:30PM The biggest scam of all is the current pricing on gallons of milk. They give you a major price break if you buy 2 gallons at once, and fork it to you if you only buy one. I live alone; if I bought 2 gallons of milk at a time, one would go bad before I got through the other one! It's a racket, and somebody ought to take them to court on it.

Burger King Ad Inappropriate for Kids? (ParentDish)

Apr 9th 2009 1:48PM Inappropriate? Only in the sense that it's stupid, obnoxious, WAA-A-A-A-Y too long, and it doesn't say a bloody thing about selling hamburgers! I agree with the majority, per se, WTF???

Beyonce Fans Not So Great SAT Takers (Blackvoices Main)

Mar 18th 2009 4:12PM Well, my folks couldn't afford ANY prep courses in 1969, and I got 1408 the first time I took the SAT, and a perfect 800 on the Chemistry achievement test - TWICE. And I like Billy Joel, James Taylor, Pink Floyd, and Harry Nilsson.

Woman finds black widow spider in the grapes she bought at Costco (WalletPop)

Nov 21st 2008 10:56AM "Most Dangerous Spiders in the world"? Oh, come on, nothing like sensationalizing a story. You wanna talk about Dangerous Spiders, talk about the Brown Recluse (AKA fiddleback or Violin Spider) or the Funnel-web spiders of Australia. THOSE are dangerous spiders. People routinely die or suffer major tissue damage from those spider's bites.

Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard Survives Scorpion Attack (Spinner)

Nov 4th 2008 1:15PM Ditto about "Sting" vs "Bite". Sheesh - do your homework, dude! One of the most deadly scorpions in the world is a South American tree scorpion named "sculpuroides". It's a tiny thing, and its venom is about 150 times as potent as the black scorpions found in the American southwest. There is no known antivenin for a sculpuroides sting; death comes in minutes.

50 Best TV Comedies -- Ever (Inside TV Blog)

Oct 30th 2008 11:45AM What happened to 3rd Rock From the Sun??!! That should be in the top 5! And Soap is only in the 20's? It should be in the top 10. I can't watch either of those without laughing until it hurts. Larry Sanders #12? He's so stupid it makes my teeth hurt! (Only thing stupider than him is Mr. Bean...) Curb Your Enthusiasm? I've never even HEARD of that, much less seen a commercial for it.
You guys don't even have a clue.

Best Horror Movies Ever (Moviefone Blog)

Oct 28th 2008 11:38AM Something that's not on the list but definitely should be is a sleeper called "Tourist Trap" starring Chuck Connors in his short-lived attempt to become the next Vincent Price. It has a scene in it which one critic dubbed "one of the ten most horrific scenes ever filmed". Another missing film is "The Tingler" with Vincent Price.
But 28 Days? That was cr*p, and so were a couple of others on this list. The list is obviously weighted towards newer movies (examine the percentage of movies produced after 1980 to real classics made pre-1980). Some of these remakes should never even be eligible (notable exception being John Carpenter's "The Thing", which was much more faithful to the original John W Campbell story (Who Goes There?) that it was based on).