Happy New Years Day!

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Happy New Year's Day!

Hopefully NOBODY'S reading this and are instead enjoying the 1st new day of the year and decade..

I'm at work, so life sucks- HAHAHA!

here's some things on the interweb today

NEW LAWS ARE IN EFFECT- YAY! -- In SC, the biggest of changes or laws in SC concerns picture ID's on those hanging vehicle placards for the disabled or handicapped. The new law involves a completely new process for acquiring and displaying handicap placards. Beginning Jan. 1, placards will contain a photo identification, along with certificates verifying eligibility. Current placard holders can keep their placards until it expires, or Dec. 31, 2010 – whichever comes first. In NC, the biggest change involves smoking in public places. Other laws involve safeguards against racial profiling, expanded film credits, supervision of minors during arrests of their guardians, ethics training for municipal officials, stricter rules for denying unemployment compensation, increased requirements for animal adoption and recovery from shelters and the promotion of year-round water conservation. And those are just for the new year. Earlier this month, North Carolina banned texting while driving, a misdeamenor carrying a minimum $100 fine.

For more information about the North Carolina laws, visit ncga.state.nc.us. For more about the South Carolina law, visit scdmvonline.com.

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After thousands of nominations of words and phrases commonly used in marketing, media, technology and elsewhere, wordsmiths at Lake Superior State University on Thursday issued their 35th annual list of words that they believe should be banned. OBAMA-prefix, CHILLAXIN', BROMANCE, TOO BIG TO FAIL, TOXIC ASSETS, STIMULUS, IN THESE ECONOMIC TIMES, TEACHABLE MOMENT, FRIEND (as a verb), SEXTING, TWEET, APP, CZAR, TRANSPARENT/TRANSPARENCY, and SHOVEL-READY.

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The Walt Disney Co. completed its $4.24 billion acquisition of Marvel Entertainment Inc. on Thursday, bringing Spider-Man, Iron Man and 5,000 other characters under the same roof as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck.

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A new study confirms that smoking raises a person's risks of the major forms of esophageal and stomach cancers, while drinking has more narrow effects and affected only the risk of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, the form found in the upper part of the esophagus. People who, at the study's start, drank more than 30 grams of alcohol per day -- equivalent to two to three glasses of wine -- were nearly five times more likely to develop the cancer than abstainers were

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Jubilant gay couples have rung in the New Year in New Hampshire with wedding vows to celebrate the state's new law legalizing same-sex marriage. At midnight, New Hampshire joined Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut and Iowa in allowing gay marriage.

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Bill Powell, the first African American to build, own and operate a golf course, died Thursday. He was 93. Full Story »

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Police say a man who appeared in the Discovery Channel show "Deadliest Catch" is wanted for three bank robberies in Oregon and has been arrested in Illinois.

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Congratulations to the Navy's USS Ross. The destroyer has outlasted every other battleship, cruiser, destroyer and frigate in U.S. Navy history. The only warship in production for longer was the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier. Thanks to a decision by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Arleigh Burke destroyer production will continue for at least a few more years. The defense budget signed by President Barack Obama in December includes money for the first of at least three more ships. There's talk of many more being built.