Google Checkout Opens for Business
Today Google, Inc. announced the launch of Google Checkout, a checkout process that makes online shopping faster, more convenient and more secure for Google users.
Google Checkout offers an easy and trusted checkout option that enables shoppers to purchase from participating stores with a single Google login. It also works with Google’s search advertising program, AdWords, to help merchants acquire new customers and process all or a portion of their Checkout sales for free.
“By integrating the checkout process with search and advertising, we’re helping our users complete the cycle of searching, finding and buying,” said Salar Kamangar, Vice President of Product Management at Google. “In the offline world, shoppers don’t tolerate long lines and tedious data entry just to buy something. They shouldn’t have to in the online world either. Google Checkout simplifies and improves the online purchase experience for both consumers and merchants.”
Source: Google.com Press Release
Star Wars Party Jam
Spotted Dick
Apparently Heinz has a product called Spotted Dick. From the picture below it seems to be some sort of sponge pudding and you can heat it up in a microwave.
Doing a little Google research this evening, I found a little bit of information about spotted dick:
Spotted Dick is a steamed suet pudding containing dried fruit, usually currants. The dessert is especially popular in the United Kingdom, usually served either with custard or with butter and brown sugar. Spotted refers to the currants (which resemble spots), and Dick is a corruption of the word dough.
Looking at my site stats, I have a lot of readers from the United Kingdom, so I’m interested in finding out what the real story is on spotted dick pudding.
Here in America, when I hear the words spotted dick, I don’t think of pudding but then again, in the UK, there are many words which have different meaning here in the United States… example “Rubber”. Hehe. Can you please pass me a rubber? I almost lost it when I heard that in England a few years ago. In England, a rubber is an eraser.
Only in America
Is it just me or does anyone else find it amazing that our government can track a cow born in Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall where she sleeps in the state of Washington? They can even track her calves to their stalls but they’re unable to locate 11 million illegal aliens wandering around our country?! Maybe we should give them all a cow?
Ok, here’s an idea… for each person that enters the United States, they’ll receive one cow. We have now given you a way to travel when your car breaks down, milk for when you have your children and food for when all your relatives come. Only in America.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not knocking our statue of liberty, it’s just so amazing how we can track diseases, cows, Terrell Owens Rap sheet but we can find Osama Bin Laden or missing children? Nope.
Yesterday I posted about our constitution and how we don’t use it anymore and should give it to Iraq. I received a few hate emails saying that I was “so un-american” and “if I don’t like it, I should move away”. For the record, I’m very American and love my country.
Read on if you dare as I’m about to rant a little more about my thoughts on the United States Constitution.
We have the freedom to speak as long as we do it quietly, we don’t offend anyone and the public doesn’t hear us. We have the right to bear arms, just don’t shoot anyone trying to hurt you, they may sue you… and win! We are free, yet the government can come in at anytime and take everything you own including your children. Only in America.
Laptops Give Hope to the Homeless
FILLMORE, California - Happy Ivy doesn’t have a bathroom or a kitchen in the bus he calls home. He does, however, have a video-editing station.
Living in a squalid, Woodstock-style bus parked in a Fillmore, California, orange grove, the 53-year-old homeless man charges a power generator from a utility shed and uses Wi-Fi from a nearby access point. From this humble camp, he’s managed to run a ’round-the-clock internet television studio, organize grassroots political efforts, record a full-length album and write his autobiography, all while subsisting on oranges and avocados.
He claims he created one of the first handheld computer scanners and played a major part in the data transmission industry in the early 1990s. “I’ve always been trying to stay up on internet technology,” Ivy said.
Source: Wired News
This is an amazing story. Apparently nearly all homeless people have e-mail addresses, according to Michael Stoops, director of the National Coalition for the Homeless.
Helping the homeless get e-mail addresses has been a priority for years at shelters across the country. And in an age when most every public library in the nation offers internet access, the net has proven a perfect communication tool for those without a firm real-world address. Yay technology.
The Constitution
They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq. Why don’t we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it’s worked for over 200 years and we’re not using it anymore.