The Chinese cellphone maker Huawei was the source of much ridicule when they used an iPhone to tweet to the world Happy New Year, this only a few weeks after the company famously banned all employees from using Apple products. The reason for the blunder? The PR company could not use Twitter from behind China’s firewall and thus had to use the iPhone which did work.
Another Chinese company has fully embraced the government’s initiative of, “adding technology into campus” and is marketing school uniforms embedded with GPS chips along with an app that will alert teachers when students leave campus.
In what some saw as a bad omen for 2019, a Rose Bowl parade train float caught fire and literally became a train wreck.
Monks in Japan are protesting one monk’s traffic ticket for “driving in a kimono that could affect safety” by posting videos showing off amazing feats of agility all while dressed in ceremonial robes.
A man shot out the drive-thru window at an Oklahoma City Taco Bell because he didn’t get enough hot sauce.
A town in Finland claims it is the happiest on earth. When asked, one resident claimed their secret was, “not being miserable.”
Scientists discovered that household plants spiked with “synthetic rabbit DNA” form a powerful new compound that can filter potentially cancer-causing organic compounds from the air.
A mugger in West Palm Beach picked the wrong mark when he went after 68-year old Steve Shepherd who is a five-time, world-champion kickboxer.
Photo credit: at least this guy got something out of the year’s first presidential press briefing.
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