Fake mizzou web address leads to rival school web

Officials in University of Missouri found out a website that uses their trademark nickname "Mizzou" in a web address last week. The website is thought of as a hilarious jokes pranks ideas which leads web visitors to the rival territory. The web address www.mizzou.us takes unaware users to the official University of Kansas Web site.

Christian Basi, University of Missouri Spokesman, said that they've already asked the individual who owns the www.mizzou.us site to change or remove the domain name, since it infringes University of Missouri trademark. A spokeswoman at Collegiate Licensing Co. confirmed that a letter has been sent, but could not disclose details since it’s against federal regulation to disclose information about mailboxes.

A search of the domain name leads to an “L. Jeffries” of 501 E. Nifong Blvd., Suite 311, in Columbia, a UPS Store location. It’s against federal regulation to disclose information about mailboxes, so owner John Kadlec could not verify whether the 311 mailbox exists. On forums, some have attempted to track down the site owner. Some have pointed to Owl Software, a Columbia business with a mailbox at the UPS store. Owner Ann Roland said there’s no connection between the site and her company, which writes software for the food industry.

KU just became aware of the fake address and is not responsible for it, spokeswoman Jill Jess said. But the university hasn’t taken steps to ask the owner to remove it. “We can’t control what the greater Jayhawk nation does on the Internet,” Jess said. “Sometimes they can get a bit overzealous.”

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Prank made officials rescind license plate design

The original winning license plate design was rescinded Friday by the Omaha Nebraska State officials and hoped to get the last laugh at the expense of a New York-based humor Web site.

The Department of Motor Vehicles and the Nebraska.gov was forced to decide and illuminate the embarrassing communicative deficiencies of the CollegeHumor.com pulled-off practical jokes and pranks ideas.

Though the humor site's attempt to sabotage the voting process by having its visitors vote for the "ugliest" design". Officials at Nebraska.gov originally told DMV officials that it only had a minimal impact on the overall tally.

A black and white design with Nebraska.gov in red letters got the most votes and was declared the winner earlier this week at an event featuring Gov. Dave Heineman and his staff.

CollegeHumor.com then declared a victory on its site, saying essentially, "We won." So the Nebraska Interactive, the company managing the state's Web site, and State officials then took a closer look at the numbers. They found that about 14,000 votes came from the New York site and 12,000 were cast for the black and white plate, which was deemed by the site to be the most boring design. "This is clear evidence the voting was compromised by the mischievous intentions of a third-party site," said DMV spokeswoman Beverly Neth.

DMV officials tossed out all votes that had come from the humor site and took full responsibility for the gaffe, and they weren't laughing despite those effort CollegeHumor.com editor who devised the prank offered no apologies. . The remaining votes tallied favored the plate featuring the state bird and the state flower, which will be the plate design adorning Nebraska vehicles in 2011.

"I think it was all in good fun. In the end it turned out OK. Maybe they had to work a little extra to discount those votes but the one that deserved to win ended up winning," said Kevin Corrigan.

The final, true tally included 32,727 votes for the Meadowlark and flower design and 28,302 votes for the black and white design. Officials now said they'll now think twice about using an online poll in the future.

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City parks department raises fine to dog poop

All dog lovers wants to spent time with their man's best friend every now and then. Most of us stroll our mutt at the city parks and other public places.
We love to show our pets the freedom of being able to go out in the public and enjoy the city grounds especially the city parks, where it seemed dog owner's chill out spot with their pet dogs.

But we all know there are risks we take when we let our lovely pets outside. Even though we shower them unconditional love, they're still animals that have no control or whatsoever to their natural being like taking a dump anywhere they feel like doing when it's coming. Especially in public places where they consider it a huge toilet place.

The Parks Department had just given dog owners $150 more reasons to pick up dog dirt. They've just officially raised its pooper-scooper fine to $250, from the current $100. To think of the fine hike during these economic crisis that's hitting us badly, it sounded more like one of the city council's hilarious jokes. Nevertheless, pet owners now should think twice of strolling their dogs on public parks from now on.

Though its noteffective until June according to Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe which was approved by the City Council during the budget hearing this Tuesday. The higher fine will bring parks up to the same $250 fine that the Sanitation Department began imposing in November for doggy-doo violations on the streets.

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