Wonderful satire from The Onion. “This saves a lot of time we would otherwise spend tediously pretending to review applications, allowing us to focus on ensuring every student we accept is a good fit for Harvard.” | learn more
How to advertise on a porn website
Restaurant delivery service Eat24, now owned by GrubHub, was once a scrappy independent upstart. Back then, they had to figure out how to stretch their ad budget to the max. They found the answer on a porn site and turned it into an interesting and informative case study. | learn more
Why do Canadians say ‘eh’?
Thanks to Atlas Obscura for bringing us “the story behind Canada’s most distinctive verbal tic.” | learn more
Meet the wife/manager of the most popular video gamer in the world
“Jessica Blevins, 26, is the manager of the world’s most popular video-game player, the ‘Fortnite’ pro Tyler ‘Ninja’ Blevins. She also happens to be married to the guy.” | learn more
The Soviet Union once paid Pepsi with warships
I’m linking to a longer article, but quoting this tweet: “In 1989, the cash-strapped Soviet Union paid Pepsi with 17 submarines, a cruiser, a frigate & a destroyer in exchange for $3 bln worth of Pepsi. This caused Pepsi to become the 6th largest military power in the world for a moment, before they sold the fleet for scrap recycling.” | learn more
A font made from hideously gerrymandered districts
“A new typeface called Ugly Gerry… Each letter is formed from the shape of a single grotesquely gerrymandered district.” | learn more
Cleveland Browns customer service circa 1974
I just rediscovered this from years back and it made me laugh all over again. Enjoy! “A classic exchange between a season ticket holder and the Cleveland Browns front office from 1974. It’s a shame that no one would have the balls to send a reply like this today. The customer is not always right.” | learn more
California police chief accused of coverup after losing her gun
“The search for the pistol that San Luis Obispo Police Chief Deanna Cantrell lost in a bathroom stall resulted in an apparently illegal search of a home without a warrant and the arrest of a couple on charges of child neglect for having a messy house. And, new information points to Cantrell’s efforts to keep the news of her loss quiet despite her claim that she immediately reported the stolen gun.” | learn more
A guy paid $850k for a rare sneaker collection
“Sotheby’s first-ever sneaker auction isn’t scheduled to end until July 23, but it’s already a success. That’s because one man has bought 99 of the 100 exceedingly rare shoes that were up for bidding, for a grand total of $850,000.” | learn more
Tupac fan fired from government job after emailing inspirational quote to 4,300 employees
“The former director of Iowa’s Department of Human Services is keeping his head up after the diehard Tupac fan was fired abruptly last month.” Big props to the author for the artfully-placed Tupac reference. | learn more