Floating tool bag

Somebody please say that this isn't Santa's tool bag floating around up there! It's supposed to have toys in it!

From The Inquisitor:

Floating tool bag spotted in night sky

How did we miss this earlier! The floating tool bag, the set of tools lost by Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper during a spacewalk to repair a part of the international space station last week has been spotted in the night sky over Ontario, Canada.

Kevin Fetter video taped the bag through a high-powered telescope, and naturally the footage has made its way online.

NASA told reporters that they’d like to retrieve the bag, but are mostly concerned at the moment that it might end up slamming into one of the solar panels on the international space station.

Unfortunately there has been no sign of the missing spider yet.

Footage as follows. It’s not terribly exciting, but we are looking at a tool bag in the sky, which is somewhat amazing in itself.

Here is the YouTube video referenced in the article above, with blurb. If it looks like it is only 4 seconds long, that is because it is only 4 seconds long.

This is a live shot of the lost tool bag dropped by astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper during a recent Space Shuttle mission.

This was taken from an amateur astronomer's backyard telescope, and was also visible to the naked eye. The tool bag is the bright white spot that moves right to left in a slightly diagonal trajectory across the shot.

Here is a raw video of the tool bag getting lost (from Associated Press on November 18):

Cyber Monday

Cyber Monday is a term coined by Shop.org for the Monday after Black Friday, which is another special shopping day right after Thanksgiving. It is starting to be accepted by the public as the official start of online holiday shopping season.

There is a site (and online shopping mall, actually) called Cyber Monday, cyberMonday.com, which features about 550 major online retailers. Many special deals are advertised, but there has been some criticism in the past that most of these deals are normally offered elsewhere. Cyber Monday is widely seen as an artificial buzz-word created by commerce to stimulate more sales.

One special part of Shop.org's Cyber Monday is that the proceeds go to the Ray M. Greenly Scholarship Fund. Ray Greenly was an executive (a Vice President) at Shop.org. He died of lung cancer in September 2005. The scholarship fund was set up in his honor in 2006 to support students studying e-commerce.

The Cyber Monday site is online all year long.

Tina Sherman loves McDonald's

Heh.

You gotta be careful what you store on your mobile devices. Most of all, do not forget one at McDonald's. The employees might become fans and decide to share the good vibes with the whole world. From Daily News:

Arkansas man sues McDonald's over nude photos of his wife

If you have naked photos of your wife on your cellphone, be sure to keep it safe.

That's sound advice a man in Fayetteville, Arkansas failed to heed.

Phillip Sherman mistakenly left his cell phone behind at a local McDonald's, and now he and his wife, Tina Sherman, are suing the fast food joint for $3 million after nude photos of her that were on the phone found their way to the Internet.

According to the lawsuit, Phillip forgot the phone in July and was assured the employees would keep it safe. However, the naked pictures of Tina ended up online, and the Shermans are blaming the workers at the McDonald's restaurant.

The couple is seeking damages for suffering, embarrassment and the cost of having to move to a new home.

Dr. Pepper N' Guns N' Roses N' Chinese Democracy

Anyone up for a free Dr. Pepper? You have one day to get a coupon for one. Just go to DrPepper.com and get it.

Here's why. The Dr. Pepper people made a bet with the rock band Guns N' Roses. If GNR finished “Chinese Democracy” (an album in the works for the past 17 years) before the end of 2008, Dr. Pepper would give away a bottle of pop to anyone in America who wanted one. Well the CD will be on iTunes and in Best Buy stores on November 23.

So if you want a Dr. Pepper freebie, you can get one. You get a 20-ounce Dr. Pepper product and the coupon is good until February 28, 2009. You have all day Sunday to visit the Dr. Pepper site to claim a coupon, but the offer to claim it expires at midnight.

Cool.

btw - Do the Dr. Pepper executives and employees even listen to Guns N' Roses?

universitydodge.com - Buy one, get one free

If you go to University Dodge in Florida (at universitydodge.com on the web), you can buy a Dodge Ram and get one free.

Not that's what I call a publicity stunt. I hope it does not bankrupt the poor guy.