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As the state remains under a stay-at-home order during the COVID-19 pandemic, first responders are among those who are on the front lines. The Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory has donated more than 50,000 cookies to San Francisco, Alameda and San Mateo county first responders this week. The company posted photos of the cookies on their Instagram and said, “COVID19 is tough, but we are tougher and like my fortunes, we will persevere.” To thank the healthcare workers, the company also sent cookies to UCSF Oakland Benioff Children’s Hospital for the staff and doctors. More cookies will be sent out...

Like it or not, where you decide to live often says a lot about you.You're not totally defined by your zip code, but a website spotted by Reddit seeks to show people what zip codes say about the average demographic, culture, and lifestyle in one's area.Here's how it works:The "Zip Lookup" tool is powered by Esri, a geographic-information firm based in California.Just head to the website, type in your zip code, and you'll be greeted with a breakdown of your zip code's demographic characteristics based on Esri's "Tapestry" technology, which consists of 67 unique market segment classifications.The percentage breakdown shows...

Ok, now this is getting ridiculous. First of all the United States Census Bureau has budgeted 340 million dollars to advertise the 2010 census. Guess who’s going to cover this 340 million dollar ads bill. You guessed it, we are. Then the bureau blows 2.5 million dollars of US taxpayers’ to air a census commercial during the Super Bowl. Now they are planning on wasting another $3000.00 of their $340 million ads budget on fortune cookies. Yes that’s right, fortune cookies.

SEATTLE - A Seattle fortune company cookie has unveiled a line of cookies bearing messages on behalf of the U.S. Census Bureau. Tsue Chong Co. said the five census messages, revealed during a Thursday ceremony, will appear on the flipside of 2 million otherwise commonplace fortunes inserted into the cookies, The Seattle Times reported Thursday. The fortunes, including messages that "Real Fortune is being heard" and readers should "Put down your chopsticks and get involved in Census 2010," will appear in cookies distributed to restaurants and stores in Washington, Oregon, Montana and Idaho, the company said. Bessie Fan, co-owner of...

Personalized fortune cookies sound like a fun idea for a party or business event, right? That's what I thought until I happened upon goodfortunes.com. They provide suggested "Cookie Quotes", and I figured I would use someone else's creative ideas. Since these cookies would go to a group of businesswomen, I naturally browsed the quotations listed under "Prosperity." Here is a sampling of what I found: The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity. ~Alan Gregg What has...

Several years ago, when I still thought Fantasy/Sci-Fi conventions were good places to sell books, we came up with a promotion to give away fortune cookies stuffed with "alternate" fortunes. This met with mixed results. About 50% of the recipients laughed; about 40% said "huh?"; and the remaining 10% got mad (including one miscreant who crumpled up the fortune and threw it at us). Anyway, here they are. See what you think:Eeewww. You got the fortune cookie that fell on the floor. You will join a political party headed by Patrick Stewart. Something awful will happen to you on November...