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Big Week For Phil Collins: Olympic Rumors And Surprise Top Ten Album

Steve Tanko — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 20:50:22 +0000

Phil Collins’ management company must be thanking their lucky stars; After being mostly out of the public eye for the last decade (or two), he’s scoring in two surprising ways this week. First, there’s the Olympics rumor. If you believe the stories coming out of London, Phil Collins has been secretly selected to be the [...]

This Day in History for August 4 – Anne Frank Captured and More

Shauna Wright — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:20:20 +0000

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:

1892 – The parents of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home (More info)

1944 – A tip from a Dutch informer leads Nazis to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others (More info)

McDonald's Billboard Hosts Giant Game of Pong [VIDEO]

Kool Staff — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 20:49:01 +0000

A giant McDonald's video billboard in Stockholm, Sweden is hosting a game of pong that just about anybody with a smart phone can join in, without having to download any new software.

Instead, potential players use their smart phone to log on to a website associated with the promotion. After the phone's geo-location device confirms you are close enough to the billboard, the phone's touch screen can be used to control the game.