Monthly Archives: September 2010

Ferry Workers Spend Years Drinking Contaminated Water

Workers at the Washington State ferry headquarters building unknowingly spent the past five years drinking water from pipes connected to the heating, air conditioning, and ventilation systems. Maintenance workers recently discovered the plumbing mistake and alerted authorities to the problem.

Workers will meet with a toxicologists next week to talk about how they may have been affected by the bad water. About 240 people work in the facility.

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Walmart to “Aggressively” Invade Convenience Store Industry

Having conquered the “big box” world of retail goods, Walmart is now setting its sights on the convenience store industry. The company has an “aggressive” plan to roll out a new chain of stores aimed at competing with established chains like 7-11 and AM/PM.

This is bad news for privately owned corner stores.

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Kid Contracts Herpes from “Balloon” Found in Hotel Room

Oh, good lord. This is one of the worst things I’ve ever posted. Some poor four year old boy from Atlanta, Georgia who found a used condom on a hotel room floor thought it was a balloon and put it in his mouth. He’s contracted oral herpes but is negative for HIV.

The boy was staying with his grandmother in a room at the Wyndham Garden Hotel in downtown Atlanta when the incident occurred.

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Halo: Reach By the Numbers

Aside from having 65% more concurrent users than Halo 3 ever had, Halo: Reach posted some rather impressive numbers in its first week.

  • 70 million+ games have been played
  • 235 million+ player-games have been played
  • 2 million+ files have been uploaded to File Shares
  • 5,901 years have been spent in online games
  • 20 million daily challenges have been completed
  • 709,840 weekly challenges have been completed
  • 165 billion credits have been earned

That’s… disgusting. Is the entire world playing the damn game?

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Endgame

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Facebook Crashed Today

Some of you may have noticed that the Facebook “Like” buttons here on What The Christ? were down for a good part of the day.

That’s because Facebook itself was down for a good part of the day. In fact, this was the second day in a row that the world’s largest social network has experienced downtime. I wonder what all of those FarmVille addicts did to pass the time?

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Amateur Hour 011

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Must Have Been a Noob

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SNES9X and NullDC Ported to PS3

Emulator developers wasted no time porting their work to the PS3 now that the notoriously mod-resistant console has been rooted.

Alpha builds of both SNES9X (Super Nintendo) and NullDC (SEGA Dreamcast) have been successfully loaded to the console. Neither build supports all of the features available on other platforms yet but it’s only a matter of time until the brilliant minds behind both projects have everything working properly.

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Enthiran (Robot)

This is the trailer for Enthiran (Robot), the most expensive Indian action film ever produced. If you ask me, the trailer alone is worth millions.

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