Paul McCartney's Error

In 1974 Paul McCartney came up with a song called "Live and Let Die." This song stated, "What does it matter to you? If you've got a job you gotta do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell." This mentality has had a lot of influence, and it was not the better kind of...

Google Site Search gets more demanding

With Google Site Search, you can create a search engine for your organization's websites in just a few minutes. " Customers today demand speed. Waiting around is so, well, yesterday -- as so many of the...

Man arrested in D.C. with weapons

"WASHINGTON (CNN) — Capitol Police arrested a man Friday after an officer spotted a rifle in his car when he stopped the officer to ask for directions two blocks from the Capitol building. Christopher Shelton Timmons, 27, has been charged with carrying a deadly weapon,...

Google maps 'demolish British history'

Internet maps such as those made by Google ae demolishing British history by effectively not including historic monuments, battlefields etc on them according to super map maker Mary Spence. Traditional cartography...

NATO to Assist Georgia in Seven Directions

"NATO will assist Georgia in seven directions – Robert Simons, the special representative of NATO to Georgia , stated the following after his meeting with Giorgi Bakradze , the chairman of the Parliament of Georgia. As Robert Simons stated the chairman of the Parliament of...

Google introduces Walking Directions on Google Maps

Great! Perhaps bike directions will be next. I know there has been a lot of chatter in the biking communities about the desirability of such a thing. Go, google!"Google has test added a new feature to Google Maps...

Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund

"Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund Paul Graham July 2008 When we read Y Combinator applications there are always ideas we're hoping to see. In the past we've never said publicly what they are. If we say we're...

Mt. Shasta celebrates the Fourth on the streets and in the skies

"By Steve Gerace Mount Shasta Area Newspapers Sun Jul 06, 2008, 12:44 PM PDT Story Tools: Email This |  Print This Mount Shasta, Calif. - Smokey skies cleared the morning of July 4, 2008, as if...

Google launches 411 service in Canada

Starting today, Canadians can dial GOOG-411 and be instantly delighted by the wonderment of Google. Maps, phone numbers, directions and more are now accessible via Google's voice recognition software--thus no...

At least 18 hurt in Wisconsin school bus wreck

At least 18 people have been hurt this afternoon in Salem, Wisconsin when a school bus dropping children off from school was rear-ended by a semitrailer truck.Two people have been air-lifted to hospital, and the...

Carjacker Asks TV Crew for Directions

"At least this film crew can safely say that for once, the news came calling.In Cleveland, Ohio, WOIO-TV newswoman Shannon O’Brien and photographer Eric Walls were doing a sidewalk report Monday on bank problems when a possible bank problem (holdup, perhaps) showed up in...

Fiery jet Fuel Tanker Crash Closes I-91 Outside Boston

Details are still emerging, but it appears a fuel tanker travelling North on I-91 in Chicopee, just West of Boston was involved in a serious accident. Several cars were involved and the fire was still burning an...

Hwy. 407 Closed After Major Crash, Two People Seriously Hurt

A crash on the 407 Northwest of Toronto has seriously injured two people and closed down the North and South lanes.Police say three people were in a car that apparently hit the median, flipped over and rolled....

Bomb scare shuts Victoria Bridge, Quebec

Anyone with more information or pictures, please post."The Victoria Bridge is closed in both directions because of a bomb scare. The Sûreté du Québec bomb squad is investigating what appears to be a suitcase on...

Christmas light locator a godsend for NP contestants

This festive little site enables you to enter your postal code and find holiday light displays in your area.  A useful tool for people wishing to enter our 12 days of Newsmas Holiday Contest."Welcome to the...

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