Mass animal deaths reported around the world in the last week have been causing world-wide alarm and speculation.
In the United States, the animal deaths gained media attention when up to 5,000 blackbirds in Arkansas mysteriously fell out of the sky, 360 miles south of Beebe, Ark.
A few days later an estimated 500 red-winged blackbirds and starlings were found dead in Louisiana- a short distance away from where the other 5,000 plummeted to their deaths. More animal deaths were reported in Tennessee.
Signs of the “Aflockalypse,” as some are calling it, are popping up all over the globe.
Residents at Sorrento Woods in Venice, Florida have a new neighbor: an orange alligator!
Sylvia Mythen first saw the alligator on Wednesday on her way to work. “I thought, this is great. I’m going to snap a picture and send it to my grandkids so they think I’m the coolest grandma in Florida,” she told WWSB in this video (via CNN).
While most of the fake resolutions listed on this Starbucks napkin are pretty funny, I think number three and eight are my favorites:
According to industry sources, iTunes is paying the Beatles’ royalties from digital download sales in the United States directly to the band’s company, Apple Corps, and is paying the songwriting mechanical royalties directly to Sony/ATV Music Publishing, which controls most of the Beatles’ song catalog.
That suggests the royalty split could be more lucrative for the Beatles than it would be under the typical provisions of a standard artist contract, which treat digital downloads as a retail sale.
The fish weighed in at 342 kg and was caught off the most northerly Japanese island of Hokkaido. The price far surpassed the previous record of Y20.3 million (£158,807) set in January 2001 for a 202-kg tuna.
The fish was reportedly purchased by a wholesaler and will be sold on to up-market sushi restaurants in Japan and Hong Kong at a price of Y95,000 (£743) per kilogramme.
