Quoting Tracy Roberts: "the best pedicure I ever had." Interesting. I think this place in northern Virginia is the only store that practices this carp eating dead skin pedicure. If anyone has bad feet or just want to...
highlighted by JeffHuang | 4 days ago | updated 3 days ago 716 views | 12 comments
Wikipedia is considering a basic change to its editing philosophy to cut down on vandalism. In the process, the online encyclopedia anyone can edit would add a layer of hierarchy and eliminate some of the spontaneity that has made the site, at times, an informal source of...
Ex Pentagon analyst Gregg Bergersen gave secret military information to a New Orleans furniture salesman who turned out to be a Chinese spy. Such revelation caused him to serve five years in prison. This sentence is shorter than the US government asked for. It wanted...
The travel industry is changing, from limited sized carry ons, to Fuel Surcharges. The Travel Trade Show in Orlando will answer these questions and more. For those in the travel industry or media outlets...
highlighted by nascanner | 1 wk ago | updated 1 wk ago 165 views | 1 comment
Good news for UGC. I wonder if this is true for articles published by users? I would suspect it does. "A nice bit of sanity from the U.S. judicial system: A ruling that Web site operators can't be held responsible...
The map of the world may have to be redrawn. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and various scientists around the world, sea levels could rise 1.5 meters by the end of this century. If...
highlighted by amyjudd | 13 wks ago | updated 13 wks ago 891 views | 11 comments
The poor cowboys out there on the Iron Range! ;}Although this is a serious weather story, I must admit that everytime I hear the words "Iron Range" I think of Da Yoopers and their song about the guy who...
"by Bill Walsh, The Times-Picayune
Thursday February 14, 2008, 10:28 AM
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- The New Orleans man accused by the government of being at the center of a Chinese spy ring was held in custody Thursday while a federal judge agreed to let his codefendant post $100,000...
"ABC Live: Internet’s undersea cable has been repaired and online traffic has returned to normal on undersea Internet cables in the Mediterranean Sea and Persian Gulf."
highlighted by jatinder | 23 wks ago | updated 23 wks ago 271 views | 1 comment
Some years ago a train crashed in a tunnel in Pennsylvania. A fire burned in the tunnel, which was used by virtually every major North American network service provider, and seriously damaged all the fibre optic...
highlighted by azer | 25 wks ago | updated 25 wks ago 551 views | 3 comments
Internet Phone Service Disrupted on Two Continents
I am hearing that since this is an undersea cable, repairs could take two weeks. That is an outage!
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CAIRO, Egypt — Internet outages disrupted business and personal usage across a wide swath of the Middle...
"An Egyptian court has jailed three police officers for beating a prisoner and forcing him to parade down a busy street wearing women's underclothes.
Senior officer Maj Yosri Ahmed Issa was sentenced to five years in prison after being convicted of torture.
The court heard...
highlighted by AlanEvans | 28 wks ago | updated 28 wks ago 370 views | 1 comment
"Five Egyptians were killed on Monday when a 12-storey residential building collapsed in Egypt's Mediterranean city of Alexandria, a security source said. Rescue workers pulled the five bodies from the rubble, but
authorities expect the death toll to rise as more...
Ick! Modern society. And Ick! I feel bad just reading this -- a Washington Post article (of questionable news value and taste) about how preteens are turning more and more to "sexy" Halloween costumes. Actually, come...