The USPS is going to default on a loan payment this month, $5.5 billion in fact, and without a bailout from Congress it may shut down entirely this winter. Patrick R. Donahoe, US Postmaster General, has tried reforming the bureaucracy but has been unable to stem losses enough to avoid the current situation. The New […]
Read MoreDomino’s Japanese branch has launched an online campaign called the Moon Branch Project, aiming to put Domino’s Pizza on the moon before the competition. The website features an ad depicting the proposed branch and it does look neat in a retro kind of way. Domino’s is celebrating its 25th year of business in Japan and […]
Read MoreDer Spiegel has a great story, aptly titled “The Peak of Insanity,” about a Dutch attempt to construct a fake mountain. A Dutch journalist, Thijs Vonneveld, proposed the project as a joke, but someone took him seriously and now the project has taken on a life of its own. Zonneveld says that the Dutch have […]
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