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In case you haven’t noticed it at your local grocery store, Mountain Dew is on day 30 of their 90 day Pitch Black II limited release.
I haven’t tried the newest version of their seasonal limited release soda, but I recall last year’s Pitch Black being tasty, an opinion that’s apparently still pretty controversial among some parties.
Read about the 40th anniversary of the creation of 7-Eleven’s popular brainfreeze-inducing iced drink at Slate.com.
Wikipedia has an entry up for Hurricane Katrina, the category 5 hurricane that’s predicted to have a good chance of hitting the city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
As the Wikipedia entry on New Orleans suggests, the world-famous town is especially vulnerable to storms as the entire city is located below sea level in a land area that acts like a large bowl, trapping water inside the city.
The city is protected by large rings of levees that keep the surrounding water at bay, while pumps remove any water brought in by storms. However, predictions of storm surges 26 feet higher than normal tides have resulted in a mandatory evacuation order to be issued.
ZDNET has an article up about AOL being fined $1.25 million dollars and ordered to change their cancellation policy by the state of New York due to the sheer numbers of complaints being filed by customers finding it difficult to cancel their service with the internet service provider.
It’s not difficult to find a horror story from friends and family who’ve used the service and then attempted to cancel, especially as high-speed broadband connections become more common. Many users have complaints about attempting to cancel, only to be lost in the byzantine process they’re thrown into by uncaring AOL customer service agents. Others claim that agents have outright refused to follow through on the cancellation requests, resulting in their accounts continuing to be charged despite repeated calls to the company.
The Henrico County school system probably never expected violence to be the result of a $50 used laptop sale, but that’s exactly what they got when they organized a sale of the used equipment to county residents.
According to MSNBC, 5,500 people showed up today, hoping to score one of the 1,000 $50 laptops. Excitement over the sale lead to one woman apparently wet herself rather than lose her place in line, while another person use the folding chair he had brought with him to beat at the crowd pushing into the crowded center.