Hi! I’m Jonathan Stark. You can download this picture of my Starbucks card to your phone and buy coffee at Starbucks with it. Seriously. My card gets charged, you don’t.
Unlike Pandora and some of the other tech companies that have filed — or have been considering filing — for an IPO, Zynga is profitable. In 2010, the company reported more than $90 million in net income, with a near-30 percent margin. And those figures will be eclipsed by 2011’s numbers: In just the first quarter of this year, Zynga reported close to $12 million in profit. And if that’s not enough to convince potential shareholders to invest, the social gaming giant has almost a billion dollars in cash on hand.
The newest Las Vegas Strip attraction isn’t another mega-resort or Cirque du Soleil show. Rather, it is a heavy equipment playground that lets visitors operate life-size Tonka toys.
In the meantime, it’s possible that Butler could get her American accent back through intensive speech therapy. But unlike other people with FAS who have become depressed by their change in accent, Butler quite likes her new one. She says it has made her more outgoing and is a good conversation starter.
Mark, a software developer, had ordered the 100 micrograms of acid through a listing on the online marketplace Silk Road… He entered his address and paid the seller 50 Bitcoins—untraceable digital currency—worth around $150.
There is intense interest in our proposal for a retrospective in 2013 of Colonel Gaddafi’s four decades of superior dress sense.
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Either this guy has extraordinary multi-tasking abilities (oppress the people, choose a shirt, oppress the people, match some socks) or the Onion is having a unusually anonymous laugh.