America the Beautiful

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Scott Weiland found dead in Bloomington, Minn

Scott Weiland

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Former lead singer of rock bands, Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, died in his sleep Thursday night while touring through Minnesota. He was 48.

A message on Weiland’s official Facebook page said he had died in Bloomington, Minn. while on tour a tour stop with his latest band, Scott Weiland and The Wildabouts. No further details about his death have been made public.

TMZ has reported that sources say drugs were found on the tour bus where he did, but that Scott’s wife is insisting he was clean.

The Associated Press reported the band was scheduled to play a concert in nearby Medina Thursday. The venue’s website showed the concert had been canceled.

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When Hashtags Go Bad

Susan Boyle Album Party

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We Do Not Have WiFi…

We Do Not Have WiFi…

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Deer Collision with Police Cruiser

Over the weekend, Officer Pittaluga encountered a large deer while driving on Decoursey Pike through Visalia. The large (but apparently agile and acrobatically trained) deer performed a Triple Axel over the hood of his cruiser. Our officer was unharmed, but the cruiser did sustain some damage. As for the deer, he appeared to brush off the incident before quickly running away into the woods. 

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Watch woman lose $100 at the movie theater

Suffering from insomnia?

Suffering from insomnia?

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Here is what I think about your parking lot gate

Woman on a mobility scooter pays no mind to a toll gate.

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3 Ways Target.com Failed Cyber Monday Shoppers

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For Cyber Monday, Target.com offered 15%t off of any items online to all shoppers. Too bad Target’s site couldn’t quite handle the traffic.

Twitter lit up with complaints about the retailer and even got itself a brand new hashtag #TargetFail. Read them for yourself.

Bottom line is that Target wasn’t prepared and hasn’t done a good job of creating a good online shopping experience. Here are 3 ways they failed.

Fail #1 – Many had to wait all day just to add items to their online shopping cart. Instead they got a message like the one pictured above. This drove countless people to Amazon.com (including myself).

Fail #2 – Additionally, some users found that items they wanted on the site were not eligible for shipping! Umm, why show items for sale on an e-commerce site if you don’t ship those items?

Fail #3 – 15% may not have been a deal anyway.

The first picture is a screen capture of Target’s Web site yesterday during their 15% off store-wide special for Cyber Monday. (Price of the item I was looking at is $439.99)

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The second one is a screen capture from their Web site today (AFTER, the day after their store-wide “special”. (Price of the item I was looking at is back to the normal price of $399.99). SCAM!

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Yes, I know that the 15% off would have resulted in price slightly lower than the standard price anyway, but it’s misleading to arbitrarily raise the price on specific items during the sale day.

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An Outback pulling an Outback, stopped to eat at Outback, parked outback

It’s Australian. Up is down. Down is up. Out front is outback.

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