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The technology world paused to honor Ray Tomlinson after he passed away in March 2016. In 1971, Ray Tomlinson worked for a Boston technology firm when he decided to devise a way for people to send messages to each other through a computer network. He thought the protocols available were too limited and…

Ashh Nicole posted a video to YouTube showing insects falling into the glaze as it poured onto to the pastries in a doughnut shop in North Carolina. http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2015/10/28/Doughnut-shop-customer-films-bugs-falling-into-glaze/9151446053180/?spt=sec&or=on That video, coupled with the recent…

VW is a flagship German company representing the highest standard of reliability. Volkswagen has been synonymous with quality and high standards for at least the last 25 years. However, U.S. regulators recently discovered that the auto giant had been installing special software in its supposedly clean-diesel…

Donna DiNicola wanted to guarantee that her offer for a 900 square foot home for her son was accepted, so she threw in something unexpected, pizza. DiNicola knew that the real estate market in the area was heating up so she needed something to stand out. Since she owned an Italian Restaurant, she offered…

When flight control rerouted a Delta Airlines flight to Tennessee to avoid bad weather in Atlanta, the passengers were pleasantly surprised when they got pizza to help fill the time. The flight was forced to land in Knoxville, Tennessee for a two hour delay, and passengers said the pizza surprise was…

The Sonic restaurant in Raymore, Missouri hopes to give their customers a little something extra by including verses from the Bible with their food. The store used to print the verses on customer’s receipts, but a recent software upgrade eliminated that possibility. In order to continue the tradition,…

With opportunities for the public to comment on the quality of public services through social media and feedback apps, restaurants become accountable to the general public. They also can be victims of undeserved bad reviews. While it is usually impossible to prove a bad review is not deserved, the restaurant…

When she was growing up during the Great Depression, Barbara Beskind dreamed of being an inventor. It took 80 years, but Beskind has finally landed a job at a top design firm in Silicon Valley. Beskind says in the Depression, ingenuity was a life requirement, but her hopes were dashed when a guidance…

A restaurant in Japan has a unique solution for diners who come in alone. To help their customers avoid the perils of eating alone, the Moomin House Café in Japan seats single diners with a stuffed animal companion called a Moomin, a family of white-hippo like characters created by a Finnish artist.…

Research published by the U.S. Travel Association suggests that most Americans don’t use all of the available vacation time and may have a “work martyr complex” that chains them to the office. The data show the typical workers who gets paid time off uses 16 days of vacation per year, even though they…

Though five years have passed since the last major financial crisis, many Americans say they are still very concerned about their job security. U.S. workers say they are most concerned about having their benefits reduced, or their hours cut. A Gallup survey found 43 percent of American workers say having…

In an email sent to coworkers on the day he retired, a German man admitted that he had nothing to do at work for the past 14 years. The man boasted that he had earned the equivalent of $980,000 for doing nothing. The worker said he was forced to retire at the age of 65 because his job had been eliminated.…

David Bonney is the founder of a German shoe company called Atheist. He is having problems with shipments to American addresses. He thinks the delays his shipments routinely experience are due to God-fearing American postal workers. The word Atheist is stamped on the boxes. Bonney can think of no other…

The government of Italy is asking citizens to help the nation’s economy by working Sundays—their traditional day of rest. Prime Minister Mario Monti announced support for a new law that would require many businesses to remain open on Sunday, and add needed revenue to government coffers. The legislation…

"We don't claim to be a Christian business," say Dan Cathy President and COO of Chick-fil-a. Many years ago, he heard Christian businessman Fred Roach say, "There is no such thing as a Christian business. But as an organization we can operate on biblical principles. So that is what we claim to be. [We…

For most people the Christmas shopping season means spending a little more to share gifts with friends. For those in who work in the retail sector, the busy holiday season is a time to boost their loss-prevention efforts. Studies reveal that one in every 11 people who walk into a store are likely to…

In an effort to build relationships with their community, an Ohio church decided to open a store offering clothing, purses, shoes, sheets and toys absolutely free. The store is operated by the Women’s Ministry of the church. The idea came from an annual clothing giveaway the church used to do every July.…

Café del Soul noticed that a nest of German Cockroaches attacked their place of business with a vengeance and infested the restaurant. Rather than running the business as usual they wrote a public letter to their customers posted it everywhere and called the Health Department on themselves. This caused…

The man who made a huge contribution to the modern world recently passed away, but very few people are aware of what he did. Eugene Polley went to work for the Zenith Corporation in 1935. During his 47 year career with the company’s engineering department, Polley worked on several projects. Most never…

The last typewriter factory closed its doors in Mumbai, India on April 25, 2011. The company managed to sell some 10,000 typewriters a year for the last few years of its existence. The drop off in orders for new machines was dramatic enough that it was no longer a viable business. The factory closed…

Someone once observed that nice guys finish last. New research suggests there is a measure of truth in the statement. Nice men may not finish last, but they may earn less money. The study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, found that “niceness” defined as agreeableness did…

Workers in the United States get a handful of national holidays off of work, in general they have the fewest number of days to relax when compared with workers in others parts of the world. Even when American workers get time off, they tend to be on call or are required to check their e-mail accounts…

The owner of a Sacramento, California car wash says he is still not sure how an alleged debt of 4 pennies led to an uncomfortable conformation with federal agents. Aaron Zeff said the manager at the car wash he owns was confronted by two agents from the Internal Revenue Service, claiming the business…

An Alabama pharmacist surprised his employees and encouraged an entire community when he paid his employees unexpected bonuses with two dollar bills. Danny Cottrell gave his full time employees $700 and the part timers $300, initiating his own stimulus plan. The only thing Cottrell asked was that the…

FLEXIBILITY The name Levi Strauss is synonymous with blue jeans in American culture. But the man by that name wasn't thinking about jeans when he went to California in hopes of making his fortune during the gold strike of the 1840s and 50s. He did make a fortune, but not the way he had planned. He set…