How can Yahoo be saved? Can it be saved? I don't think so. I remember using Yahoo! in the early days of the internet and it has held up pretty well compared to some other 1990s era web giants Lycos (search engine), Netscape (browser) or The Globe (arguably the first social networking site). Stocks during the salad days of Yahoo, in 2000, went for $118.75 a share while this past week it was trading at $15.42. An outside source working with the company feels that it needs to have a distinct plan as to what kind of company they are, and let go of their lesser products. Yahoo's products include Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Messenger, Yahoo Groups, Yahoo Voice, Yahoo Voices (huh?), Yahoo Sports, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Shopping, the picture site Flickr and rivals.com with none of them working particularly well. In fact, Yahoo's original use, a search engine, has been outsourced to Microsoft. The internet may still be in its infancy but at 17 years old Yahoo looks like it may be dying rapidly. Must be in dog years or something, and if that's the case then you hung in there sport! 
Back to theglobe.com. I remember using the website briefly in the 1990s. I don't really remember what the interface looked like, since to me, all chat rooms from that time look like the one from The Net due to repeated viewings. But I do remember it was slow as hell. One night, I was probably 14 or so, I had a conversation about God knows what, that was a back and forth of about four of five messages. That took about five hours. Sure wasn't instant messaging (remember ICQ?). Nevertheless, it was a hit. Two Cornell students founded the site 1994 and they were among the first dotcom success stories, going public in 1998 (posting the largest first day gain of any IPO to that point), and making Stephan Peternot and Todd Krizelman millionaires overnight. Paternot became the poster boy for internet kids who have more money than brains (they had a lot of both) after he was spotted at an upscale Manhatten nightclub with his girlfriend, model Jennifer Medley wearing leather pants, dancing on a table, then, to CNN cameras, stated "Got the girl. Got the money. Now I'm ready to live a disgusting, frivolous life." The wonder kids were forced out of the company by 2000 and it's market capitalization shrunk from its high of $97 to less than 10 cents by 2001. While not completely dead, it is on life support. In the company's 2011 annual report they claimed $6426 in assets vs $3.2 million in liabilities. Ouch..
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A 26 year old woman was busted stealing diapers in a Pathmark store in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, but fled the scene topless. The woman allegedly went into the store, grabbed a pack of the diapers then was apprehended by the security guards and taken into a holding room. In the room, Aishana Clayton then completely freaked out.. punching, biting and scratching at the 47 year old female security guard. When Ms Clayton started to flee the security guard grabbed her by her shirt, but she managed to wiggle out and ran through the store and parking lot topless (no bras in Pennsylvania?). "Her breasts were swinging as she ran to the car," said Upper Darby police officer Michael Chitwood. She has four prior convictions for retail theft, and well as arrests for aggravated assault and attempted murder. Ms Clayton and her boobs are still on the loose.
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In Nanaimo, British Columbia, a hungry man staying at a hotel near a 7-11, was suffering from late night munchies, decided to steal a couple sandwiches from the nearby shop only to get back to his room and realize they were plastic reproductions for display purposes. Not only that, they are apparently worth $70 apiece! The man ate one of them and noted that they were only slightly harder/more expensive than normal 7-11 sandwiches. Police traced the man back to his hotel room and returned the sandwiches. Since the owner of the store said that the bites taken out of the display models looked more enticing for potential customers.
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A new Tarantino film is almost complete. His movies has always been great, but over the years he has evolved and let all his (diverse) influences seep in. After the crime dramas "Reservoir Dogs," "Pulp Fiction," and "Jackie Brown" he took some time to make the martial arts/Hong Kong influenced Kill Bill films (which had to be made into two films with a running time of over four hours). His next movie was a homage to exploitation and slasher films called "Death Proof" which was kind of a mixed bag, but Kurt Russell sure had fun with his lead role. 2009 saw Quentin do a war film called "Inglourious Basterds" which saw Brad Pitt taking some "Nat-zees." His new film, slated for release this Christmas, is called "Django Unchained." It is a Spaghetti Western set in the American South involving a slave, separated from his wife. He is bought at a slave auction by a dentist turned bounty hunter to help him hunt down and kill a ruthless gang, and in return he will help freeing the slaves wife from an evil plantation owner. The film starts Jaime Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Christoph Waltz, Don Johnson, Samuel L Jackson, Anthony LaPaglia with cameos by RZA and Jonah Hill. Trailer below...
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Filming of a nuclear blast, 55 years ago, July 19, 1957. The eight people who set it off and taped it all got cancer.. Standing under a nuclear test.. Hmmm CLICK HERE
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