Executing the ol’ smash and grab to perfection, five masked men raided an Apple store in Sagemore, NJ at approximately 2AM on Wednesday, taking with them 23 Macbook Pros, 14 iPhones and 9 iPod Touches in a span of 31 seconds.
Signaling to the guard that they had a gun, the place was empty before he could even cry out for help.
The perpetrators left with at least $40,000 in Apple ware, but the items can be tracked down by their serial numbers if they ever attempt to resell or bring it to one of the company’s genius bars.
Apparently, all you need are four friends, a brick to smash the plate-glass front door and a bit of teamwork to throw Steve Jobs into a tizzy.
This past summer, the big screen brought life to the action figures I used to play with as a kid. This fall, it seems as if the novels I have been reading in my youth are slated for a big-budget screening of their own.
Here are a few coming-of-age films to look forward to in the coming months:
Based on a screenplay by Nick Hornby (About a Boy, High Fidelity), the story centers on a girl who forgoes her Oxford dreams in favor of a whirlwind relationship with an older man. When all seems too good to be true, she hits a brick wall (deservedly so).
If you were enamored by “Paris, Je Taime,” this collection of vignettes crosses over the Atlantic with a similar formula in mind. The shorts don’t exactly tie in together but will have one unifying theme: the search for love.
Based on the children’s book by Maurice Sendak, director Spike Jonze finally gets to show the world what he’s been working on for the past decade. I have a feeling I’ll find a lot of people in Max costumes this Halloween. It will be like the old days when all your friends would come to school dressed up as the Power Rangers.
Starring Michael Cera (Juno, Year One), this big-screen adaptation of C.D. Payne’s novel is about a 16-year-old’s mission to lose his virginity with a girl he meets on vacation at a trailer park. Based on Cera’s previous performances, I’m predicting that things are going to get pretty awkward.
Taylor Lautner, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson pick up where they left off in this sequel to the popular vampire trilogy. This time, the love triangle switches over to Stewart and Lautner, causing a stir in the centuries-old battle between vampires and werewolves.
Monster and CareerBuilder aren’t your only options when scouring the Web for any prospective internships out there. Below are some noteworthy sites aimed at getting you started on your job-hunt. If you don’t end up landing your dream internship soon, these will at least give you some insight on preparing for your next big chance.
The Web site’s crowded format shocks you a bit at first. Design isn’t their strongsuit, but links to internship opportunites are what the site is for and they do it quite well. Pairing you up with US and Canadian companies, BuddingUp has a long list of possible internship opportunities that range from Genentech to Haliburton.
Started by Action Without Borders, this website focuses on linking you with opportunities that don’t necessarily involve the corporate world. Instead, you will find internships and full-time jobs with nonprofits that deal with environmental and global issues. In a downsized economy, volunteerism has become quite an important option to consider.
It’s not entirely straightforward at first when you’re looking for prospective internships on the site’s main page. You have to type in the word “internship” in the search box before you actually receive results, which leads you to believe that it’s geared more towards jobseekers with work experience and a college degree under their belts. However, the message board feature is quite helpful in offering insight into a given industry. It also gives some interesting facts and statistics on over a hundred companies in terms of employee numbers and salary amounts. In order to get the full service, though, you have to pay $70 for three months.
This site leads the pack as it gives you company reviews and feedback from previous interns who interviewed for jobs at various companies. There are also internship listings that are easily accessible if you would like to learn more information on a specific listing. And if you already have a Facebook account, simply use your login information through FacebookConnect and you can zip right through those annoying signup forms.
Looking for greener pastures outside America’s borders? This website will pair you together with internship opportunities from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. It doesn’t match you up with a specific internship but gives you results on listings from each country.
If you thought that tuition and housing were the main things to worry about when paying for college, it’s the school supplies that really leave a nasty bite. Spending on college textbooks alone can burn a hole through your wallet from anywhere between $500 to $1000. Textbook publishers have taken note of this and have started rental services that would allow students to get discounts up to 70% off.
Cengage offers a rental plan that will automatically make the textbook’s first chapter available online. They have a number of shipping options that will let you keep the items for 30, 60 or 130 days. After that, you can choose to either buy it or return it. Other textbook rental services worth a look are Chegg and BookRenter.
Deciding whether or not you need a textbook to survive a class is up to you. One way to get a hold of a texbook for free besides borrowing one from a friend is to go to the school library for it. The only downside to this is having to wait awhile if it’s checked out. And if that book is a reserve copy, you only have a limited time to use it.
The Higher Education Opportunity Act, which was passed by the Department of Education in 2008, allocated $10 million in grant aid to support textbook rental programs. Since then, over 20 college bookstores have applied for assistance.
While Amazon pushes everyone and their mom to get their hands on the latest Kindle available, Apple insiders have concocted rumors that the company has joined the eReader party with its supposed tablet that will be released four months from now and will look pretty much like a giant iPod Touch.
eReaders were invented to supposedly make reading more convenient and accessible for its users. It’s a portable device in which you can download entire books, newspapers and magazines through a wi-fi signal or 3G network for a price. It is a vision that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos can’t stop maniacally laughing about for some odd reason. Check out the video of his appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (below).
In an article that ought to wipe that smile off Bezos’ face, novelist Nicholson Baker recently wrote for the New Yorker on his disappointing experience using the Kindle 2. Since most of the New Yorker’s reading audience are the same people who might end up getting a Kindle if they haven’t already, this is quite a blow to Amazon.
On top of this, there has also been that incident involving the erasure of a version of George Orwell’s 1984 from all existing Kindles due to a copyright debacle with the publisher. It’s a scary feeling to know that books can be erased while we’re asleep. This conjures memories of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and the simplifying of information by getting rid of all the books known to man.
I’m sure I’m not alone in believing that silicon and plastic could never completely substitute for paper and hardcover bindings. There’s a certain aura that comes with reading an actual book with which you can flip actual pages, not through a machine that won’t let you turn a page when it runs out of battery. If it ain’t broke, why fix it?
This morning, 40 years ago, Apollo 11 was cleared for liftoff and would begin a mission that would forever be remembered by people around the world for generations to come: when man went on the moon.
Fast forward almost half a century later and America finds itself uninspired in a thwarted space race. Our country has lost its drive for something greater and otherworldly and instead focuses on war and repairing an economy in turmoil. The nostalgia of the moon landing and the other landmark space missions of the 1960s are now stories passed down through the experiences of our parents and grandparents and what we can scrap out of footage from documentaries and films.
When kids are asked what they want to be when they grow up, they no longer say they want to be astronauts. Instead, they’d rather be the next Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg. It’s a somber feeling knowing that children have lost their will to dream of reaching for the stars.
Ever wonder how Spider-Man would fare against robots from outer space? Check him out below in a fight to the death with Leopardon.
The Japanese have been the best at creating serials based on our favorite comic book characters — Ultra Man, Pokemon and including this early attempt at Spidey from the 70s.
You know what it is even though you have no clue what it’s called. You’ve probably tried it and liked it even though you have no inkling of what it’s made of. It comes in a see-through plastic bottle with a green spout, etched all over with foreign characters and a rooster logo.
Does Sriracha ring a bell? How about some Rooster Sauce?
Huy Fong’s flagship product, Tuong Ot Sriracha (pronounced SEE-ra-cha), is a purée of fresh red jalapeños, garlic powder, salt, sugar and vinegar that has garnered quite a following with the American public. In fact, you can now find it anywhere from your local mom & pop store to specialty dishes at big city restaurants. Apparently, it goes well with almost anything from wheat thins to chow mein to gourmet dinners.
Its creator, David Tran, got a little inspiration from Heinz Ketchup at the time of the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles to make a sauce that would appeal to the Vietnamese community. Over the past two decades, Tran’s chili sauce has broadened that following, as evidenced by the ingredient list on the back of the bottle, which is written in Vietnamese, Chinese, English, French and Spanish. Its Facebook group has almost 150,000 fans.
I’m a weakling when it comes to eating anything hot and spicy. When my head starts to itch as a reaction to the explosion on my taste buds, I know I’ve reached my limit. Others, on the other hand, keep squeezing out that Rooster sauce like there’s no tomorrow.
If you used Twitter this past Sunday, chances are, you noticed #gorillapenis at the top of the Trending Topic sidebar.
It turns out that this is none other than the work of 4chan, the imageboard website responsible for numerous pranks on the internet that include Youtube Porn Day and the sabotaging of a Time Magazine poll of “The World’s Most Influential People,” which resulted in voting 4chan a.k.a. “moot” atop the list by a monumentally wide margin of victory.
4chan is primarily known for posting and dicussing manga and anime. It is also responsible for having coined such internet memes like “lolcats,” “rickrolling” and “chocolate rain.” Its random board, called /b/, is the notorious but most popular section on the webpage. At the moment, it seems that the site is currently down and unavailable for browsing.
As for the attack on Twitter, which 4chan dubbed “Operation Sh***er,” 4chan and eBaum’s World enlisted like-minded pranksters to sign up for fake Twitter accounts and spam the website this past weekend. The end result seems to point in the direction of a controversial but unanimous victory.
Awesome. Jaw-droppingly spectacular. A 12-year-old boy’s dream come true.
Maybe the phrases “12-year-old boy” and “Michael Jackson” don’t exactly conjure happy memories when uttered in the same sentence, but this 360 degree panoramic look by Pinsane into the late entertainer’s underground arcade collection is simply…insane. Jackson’s collection of arcade games and other geek paraphernalia were sold off in a Beverly Hills auction earlier this year. (Check out the guidebook here.)
This underground lair is more evidence to prove that Jackon was suffering from Peter Pan syndrome. Most of the videogames found here are from the mid 90s, about the same time that Jackson was settling his child molestation allegations for $22 million.
