June, 2011

By Dave Rapoza | Via | Previously: Leonardo, Shredder, The Foot

A Reuters investigation has discovered that over 2,000 business are registered at a single-family home in Wyoming.

The house at 2710 Thomes Avenue serves as a little Cayman Island on the Great Plains. It is the headquarters for Wyoming Corporate Services, a business-incorporation specialist that establishes firms which can be used as “shell” companies, paper entities able to hide assets.

Wyoming Corporate Services will help clients create a company, and more: set up a bank account for it; add a lawyer as a corporate director to invoke attorney-client privilege; even appoint stand-in directors and officers as high as CEO. Among its offerings is a variety of shell known as a “shelf” company, which comes with years of regulatory filings behind it, lending a greater feeling of solidity.

Read the full article here.

A new service currently in private beta called MoviePass will allow users to watch an unlimited amount of movies in theaters for $50 a month (plus an additional $3 for each IMAX or 3D movie).  From their blog:

MoviePass, which is backed by AOL Ventures, True Ventures (see disclosure) and Lambert Media, will soon begin offering a $50 all-you-can-eat monthly subscription video plan that will let users watch any movie they want at any participating movie theater. It will also offer other plans as time goes on, including a $30 offering that lets users watch up to four movies a month.

MoviePass will officially launch its beta program with a group of theaters in San Francisco. The plan is to capture potential viewers ahead of the July 4 holiday, which traditionally is one of Hollywood’s biggest box office weekends. It has plans to roll out its beta program throughout the summer, with a national launch in the fall. Once launched broadly, it expects to be available in about 40 percent of theaters nationwide.

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A Cirque du Soleil performer shows John Wall and Dirk Nowitzki how it’s done at Monday’s game between the Padres and Royals at Petco Park.

Alternate video: ESPN

Labeled by color.

“You lack the minerals and vitamins, irons and the niacin…”

Clutch | Thanks Brett.

SMBC

10 Movies That Famous People Don’t Want You to See – [Cracked]

11 Animal Wonders of Evolution – [Wired]

Jury Finds Blagojevich Guilty of Corruption – [NY Times]

Mr. Blagojevich, a Democrat who former aides say once envisioned himself as a future presidential contender, was found guilty of most of the 20 federal counts against him: 17 counts of wire fraud, attempted extortion, soliciting bribes, conspiracy to commit extortion and conspiracy to solicit and accept bribes.

How Violent Sex Helped Ease My PTSD – [GOOD]

“There” would be Haiti, where I’d just spent two weeks covering the one-year anniversary of the earthquake that shook the country into ugly chaos. There, a local regular at my hotel restaurant who is not accustomed to taking no for an answer had gotten desperate. After proposing for the 87th time that I have intercourse with him, he was grasping for anything that might change my mind, trying eventually, wildly, “We can do this at gunpoint if that sells it for you.” And actually, it did, yeah.

The History of Advertising on Facebook (Infographic) – [Mashable]

Glastonbury 2011 (Photos) – [In Focus]

The 2016 Summer Olympics are going to be badass.

I’m pretty sure that’s Brand from The Goonies with that M249 at the :55 mark.

Thanks Jonathan.

A collection of Parks and Rec crooner Andy Dwyer singing several self composed originals along with various covers.

“What’s 5,000 times better than ‘A Candle in the Wind‘?”

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