NOAA’s West Coast and Alaska Tsunami warning service has issued a Tsunami advisory for California and Oregon following the earthquake in Somoa earlier this morning. The center said that waves up to 1 foot higher than regular waves should reach the West Coast around 9pm PDT. A statement on the Center’s website reads “a tsunami advisory indicates a tsunami which may produce strong currents and is dangerous to those in or very near the water is expected.
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Tsunami Advisory Issued for California, Oregon
Police in North Carolina are seeking help to locate a pregnant 12 year old girl who went missing September 24. Keara Lasha Hess, who was 9 months pregnant at the time of her disappearance, her 11 year old sister Sierra Nicole Hess, and their step father Matthew Hess disappeared without warning Thursday. No amber alert has been issued because the stepfather is the legal guardian, so although the girls are missing, they haven’t been abducted as such.
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Pregnant 12 Year Old Missing in North Carolina
Police in Lubbock, Texas are under fire after a video published to the web showed them tasering a student they had pinned to the ground who was not resisting arrest. The video, taken during a charity cycling event called Tour de Tech Terrace shows Texas Tech student Hunter Temperton pinned to the ground by two officers.
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Video shows Texas police tasering student pinned to the ground and not resisting arrest
YouTube is well known for its memes, but what happens if you mashed the top 100 together? Well, you get this video of the 100 great hits of YouTube in 4 minutes
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100 Greatest Hits of YouTube in 4 Minutes
DNA tests on the so-called skull of Hitler have shown that the skull belongs to a woman, a find that some are claiming casts doubt on whether Hitler actually killed himself in his Berlin bunker in 1945. The Guardian, among many leads with the claim that “ Adolf Hitler suicide story questioned after tests reveal skull is a woman’s ” and then wraps a story around claims by some historians that without the skull as evidence, Hitler may have not have died as the Red Army fought in the streets of Berlin.
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Hitler skull DNA story proves skull not Hitler’s, not that history is inaccurate
Yahoo’s new ad campaign is out and they’ve gone with some song and dance in an experience which is something like doing Vegas on LSD. Actually the introduction is probably a little unfair, because it’s actually far worse than that.
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Yahoo’s new ad is like doing Vegas on LSD
Yahoo7, the Australian JV between Yahoo and Australian television network Channel Seven, has acquired travel site TotalTravel for AU$20 million ($17 million.
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TotalTravel acquired by Yahoo7 for AU$20 million
Tech blog TechCrunch and search engine minnow Yahoo may have signed a secret search deal that sees TechCrunch search results offered on default Yahoo searches for tech startups. There has been no public disclosure of the deal that we have been able to find, and asking for comment would be like asking Iran to embrace Israel, so we only have the evidence to go on
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TechCrunch Yahoo search deal: TechCrunch now offered as default on Yahoo Search
The Australian version of the US 401k retirement system is both liberal and complicated at the same time. In Australia, employers must pay an additional 9% of an employees wage into a superannuation retirement account. The original system didn’t offer choice, with the employer simply nominating where those payments went, but as July 2005, employees have had the ability to select where they want the funds to go
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AllMyFunds offers retirement savings advice for Australians
Selling cars can sometimes be an art form in its own right. In Spain for example, they use monsters to sell Seats.
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In Spain, Monsters Sell Cars
