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 First Time Living people to appear on U.S. stamps

The U.S. Postal Service announced Monday that it is ending its longstanding rule that stamps cannot feature people who are still alive and it’s asking the public to offer suggestions on who should be first.

Since Jan. 1, 2007, the requirement has been that a person must have been deceased five years before appearing on a stamp. Before that, the rule was 10 years. (By tradition, though, former presidents are remembered on a stamp in the year following their deaths.).

The post office announced that it will consider stamps for acclaimed American musicians, sports stars, writers, artists and other nationally known figures.


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 Star Wars Pancakes!

Jim’s pancakes made one of my favorite things from when I was little, the “AT-AT” from Star Wars.


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 Unreleased Nirvana Live Footage From 1991 – Video

The 20th-anniversary box-set reissue of Nirvana’s Nevermind comes out next week, and part of the deluxe package is a DVD and live album of an unreleased live show: the band’s Halloween 1991 set at Seattle’s Paramount Theatre. Yesterday, we posted live footage of the band playing “Breed” at that show. And now here’s another ripsnorting live clip: Nirvana blazing through “Territorial Pissings,” with Krist Novoselic’s caterwauling intro intact. Watch it below.


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 Full Tilt Poker site was Ponzi scheme

An Internet poker company that was blocked from operating in the U.S. in the spring as part of an online gambling crackdown was “not a legitimate poker company, but a global Ponzi scheme,” federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

The popular Full Tilt Poker website illegally raided player accounts to fund operations and make lavish payments to its owners, Justice Department lawyers said in a revised civil lawsuit filed in New York.

Over four years, the company used $444 million in player money to pay board members, including well-known professional poker players Christopher Ferguson and Howard Lederer, investigators said.

The poker site had promised players that their accounts were protected and wouldn’t be touched. But authorities say that, as of March, the company had only $60 million left in its bank accounts to cover the $390 million it owed to players. It routinely mingled player money with its own finances, and took cash from some customers to pay out winnings due to others, prosecutors said.

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 Canadian cryptid coins are the most bad-ass currency in the history of legal tender

Most of us are accustomed to money covered with dead historical figures and scenic historical monuments. In the Great White North, they are minting commemorative coins adorned with Québécois lake dragons and underwater panthers. If you live anywhere but Canada, your money officially sucks.

These two coins were designed by illustrator Emily Samstra for the Royal Canadian Mint. First off, we have Memphré and serpentine cryptid.

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 Ultimate Dodgeball – Video

This was the BIGGEST gathering ever recorded for a game of dodgeball. It was held at Thanksgiving point in Utah on September 16th, 2011. According to the offical numbers, they had 3,975 people there that signed waivers to be apart of the game, that doesn’t even include the mass amount of people that joined by jumping the fence, haha. They had a total of 750 balls there as well.


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