Thank you for your service, vets and members of the armed forces. We'd offer you Juggle's services for free tomorrow, but Juggle is free every day (thanks to you). Instead, please enjoy these other freebies we've rounded up.
If there’s one thing we love, it’s free stuff. Also on the list of things we love: veterans. With tomorrow being Veterans Day, we’re happy to report that, if you’re a vet, many many establishments of all kinds are offering attractive deals for past and present members of America’s armed forces.
We won’t go through the entire list (plenty of people have already assembled them-good ones are here, here and here), but, as a service to America’s veterans, after the jump we’ll present a plan to maximize your freebies tomorrow.
We were at work here at Juggle HQ, just like any other Tuesday. Here in the St. Louis area, it was an unseasonably warm day. It felt more like late spring than the end of fall. It was the kind of day that makes you smile just being outside. The kind of day when death is the farthest thing from your mind.
With a logo like this, Conan may want to talk to Troy Polamalu about getting his hair insured.
After many months of contractually-obligated absence, “TV funnyman” Conan O’Brien‘s new show debuts on TBS tonight. Titled simply, Conan, the show premieres at 11pm eastern (10pm central!). If you’re wondering, yes, this is exactly when George Lopez‘s show Lopez Tonight used to air. In an ironic twist, Lopez is being moved back an hour to make room for Conan.
If you’re wondering why we’re hitting you with banal details like these, it’s only because no one knows too much about Conan’s new show yet. We do know that Andy Richter will be back as Conan’s sidekick and that the show will be an hour. Guests tonight are Seth Rogen and Lea Michele, with Jack White dropping by for a musical performance.
Building a boat out of cork and sailing it through Portugal might be impressive, but since it's already been done it doesn't count as creative. We're pretty sure it somehow counts as meta, though.
Cork is a funny material. Not funny strange, but more ha-ha funny. (Unless you live in Portugal, in which case cork is serious business.) Not to get all Jerry Seinfeld on you, but what’s the deal? Cork is wood, but it’s super light and fairly soft. You can poke holes in it with pushpins and it basically heals itself. It floats like nothing else. It’s amazing!
The reason we’re so excited/fascinated/bewildered by cork is that we recently stumbled, as we so often do, upon a contest seeking to showcase the most creative use of cork. Run by a site called CorkBoards.net, which, you guessed it, is all about cork boards, the contest offers $100 to the entrant that uses cork most creatively, and $50 to the runner up.
Now when you say “cash,” we say “yes!” so we decided to scope out some potential project ideas in hopes of crafting a winning entry.
Sad but true: using this man's NFL picks this week. Not by choice–it's the system!
Sometimes, the week is just too long and football just seems too far away. This week was one of those weeks for us, which is why we’re continuing our effort to easily and correctly predict NFL games a day early this week. We’re jonesing for a football fix and hope you are too.
What happened last week? Well, our former golden boy Mike Golic went an embarrassing 6-7. Luckily, our current system, which has us using the picks of whichever ESPN “expert” picked the best the week prior, has us picking with Mark Schlereth following his impressive 9-4 showing last week.
We have mixed feelings about this, because although Golic is annoying, he’s harmless enough. Mark Schlereth never fails to come off as a tool-ish meathead to us, so we’re a bid sad to be using his picks. That said, Mark can totally redeem himself with another week of great picks. Hit the jump to see Marks picks and our rationalizations.
GM's going to issue stock again, but it's unlikely new shareholders will get awesome certificates this time around, as much as they might want them. This time around, they'll probably just settle for middling returns and no more bankruptcies.
Like Halloween candy yesterday, the price of stickers like this will drop like a rock tomorrow. Go vote and grab yours now while it's still worth something!
It’s the first Tuesday in November preceded by a Monday also in November, and hence, Election Day in the United States. Since it’s an even numbered year, every single member of the U.S. House of Representatives is up for re-election, along with about one third of the Senate. 37 states also have elections for governor taking place today.
If you haven’t been to the polls yet, please go vote. In many states you can register and vote at the very same place, so you really have no excuse. Google has even chipped in with a handy maps place that will tell you where you can vote. If you need more information on the candidates, you can hit up our politicians pages to learn about them before availing yourself of the many other excellent election resources that are out there.
We're not sure how our society might function if important news such as this was suddenly removed from the checkout areas of our supermarkets, but we're sure we don't want to find out.
For what seems like forever now, the National Enquirer, that Gray Lady of celebrity “news,” has wanted everyone to take it seriously and treat it like a legitimate newspaper. It seemed the Enquirer was close to getting its way when earlier this year it was nominated for one of journalism’s highest honors, the Pulitzer Prize, for its coverage of former VP nominee John Edwards‘ extramarital affair and subsequent cover-up.
Even though the National Enquirer didn’t win the Pulitzer, it was a big step in the direction of becoming a “mainstream” newspaper. Today they took another step down that road. Unfortunately, that step was filing for bankruptcy.
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