Fire in the 1200 Block of Queen Anne Ave.

Seattle, Wa. -- Details are still fuzzy, but it appears that there has been a fire in one of the apartment complexes on the corner of Queen Anne Ave. N. and Comstock. Police and Fire departments are still on the...

Snow Trashes Boston Traffic

You'd think frigid Beantown wouldn't be seriously messed up by a mere five inches of snow, but here you go: a massive rush by commuters to leave work before the snow caught them resulted in most routes in and out...

Snowstorm Chokes Toronto: Sled is Vehicle of Choice

The first real snowstorm of the year swooped in overnight, blanketing Toronto with snow. The Sunday commute became treacherous indeed: a friend of mine was called back in to work at Children's Hospital, since...

Development of Jakarta airport railway to start in March 2008

""The project`s ground breaking will be carried out in March 2008 and it is expected to be completed in June 2009," the minister told the press after the launching of Ciliwung Blue Line at Gambir railway station here on Friday.The airport railway was an urgent need and could...

Worst Travel Nightmare

Stuck in holiday airport hell? Has your hour-long drive to Grandma's house turned into a miserable road to nowhere? Post your photos, videos and cries of despair here.Return to the 12 Days of Newsmas home...

End of the line for the voice of London's Tube

"The woman known as the 'voice of the Tube' in London has had her contract terminated for criticising the underground rail service. But the city's commuters are apparently siding with Emma Clarke, whose website,...

Prince Charles angered by traffic accident

"Prince Charles has been angered by the scene of a traffic accident during a trip to Uganda.  The crash involved a motorcycle carrying four people and a cyclist transporting a corpse.  “This is a terrible thing for my dear Camilla to be exposed to,” he said...

Pedal-powered Buick lands artist in court

Artist Michel de Broin, who has stripped the engine out of a Buick, turned it into a pedal-powered enigma, and is taking it through the streets as part of a solo exhibition at Mercer Union gallery in Toronto,...

New Internet Marketing Tactic

  Getting Paid For Submitting Articles If you have been involved in internet marketing for any amount of time you would probably have heard of article marketing. For those who haven’t, article marketing is used to generate traffic and as a SEO technique and is one...

Alexa Still Sucks

Just more evidence that Alexa is a joke.  Why do people even bother mentioning it anymore?  If we are going to use fake online numbers...we should look at Quantcast and Compete which are much better.  On two of the biggest traffic days in NowPublic's history,...

Alexa Still Sucks

Just more evidence that Alexa is a joke.  Why do people even bother mentioning it anymore?  If we are going to use fake online numbers...we should look at Quantcast and Compete which are much better.  On two of the biggest traffic days in NowPublic's history,...

Thailand: Honk (and Stop) if You're Patriotic

A bill is making its way through Thailand's parliament that would require motorists to stop when the national anthem is played. Somehow the idea of every tuk-tuk, moto, car, bus, and truck in, say Bangkok having...

Internet 'brownouts' feared by 2010 as user traffic soars

While I was under the impression the infrastructure existed to actually improve our net speed and quality of access, this study suggests the opposite. I think it's much more likely that power will become an issue...

Officer Uses Taser During Struggle; Man Dies

Another taser death, there seems to be one everyday. "MAYPORT, Fla. -- A 21-year-old man died Sunday night after a routine traffic stop over a loud radio became a confrontation in which an officer used his Taser...

Study: Superhighway traffic jam could clog Internet by 2010

"But the internet traffic jam will also stifle innovation. "The next Amazon, Google or YouTube might not arise, not from a lack of user demand but because of insufficient infrastructure preventing applications and companies emerging," the report warned.The report was...

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