The Old Man & the Skateboard

Nostalgia can be pretty potent stuff when it’s deployed in service of a consumer product. Few things can rival the glossed perfection of a fond memory, which means that any ad successfully tagging the good times...

James Van Doren: Vans Inventor Dies at 72

Inventors of Vans Shoes Passes Away Skaters, a moment of silence, please. James Van Doren, who invented the iconic Vans slip-on, has died from cancer at age 72. James Van Doren co-founded the Van Doren Rubber...

Scrappage scheme marks automobile sales milestone UK

"Motorists who have traded in their old vehicles for new cars under the Government’s scrappage scheme visited Downing Street this morning as it was revealed more than 35,000 cars have been ordered through the...

6 year old Kidnapped from Las Vegas

Two men posing as police officers kidnapped a 6-year-old boy in a drug dispute after entering his family's home and tying up his mother and her boyfriend, police said Thursday.  An Amber Alert was expanded...

Dead baby thrown out with the trash

A recycling plant in Fengate, UK came across a gruesome discovery yesterday, finding a dead newborn baby coming down the trash-sorting conveyor belt. The baby has not yet been identified, so far they can't even tell if it's a boy or a girl."A newborn baby girl's body was...

China's Execution Vans - Bringing the Show to a village near you

Sometimes there is so much news in the world that stories like this pass me by. This story was published in 2006 so it is not breaking but I thought it was interesting enough to post it.In China's attempt to...

Ford begins massive recall; affects 177,000 vehicles in Canada, Mexico and Eu...

Quality control slipped here I guess and just what this company didn't need."Ford begins massive recall; affects 177,000 vehicles in Canada, Mexico and Europe CanWest News Service Published: Friday, August 03, 2007 Ford Motor Co., announced Friday that it is recalling 3.8...

Justice Dept. Database Stirs Privacy Fears

Size and Scope of the Interagency Investigative Tool Worry Civil Libertarians "The Justice Department is building a massive database that allows state and local police officers around the country to search millions of case files from the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration...

Tesco Turns to Biodiesel

A British Health Culture Side Benefit (see addendum below) "LONDON -- Tesco announced this week plans to run three-quarters of its delivery vehicles on biodiesel beginning in January next, BBC News reports. The...

Gamers line up for coveted PlayStation 3

"NEW YORK - Die-hard gamers and entrepreneurs prepared to shell out $500 or more for the new PlayStation 3 console that goes on sale Friday, many of them after waiting in line for days despite the likelihood they'd go home empty-handed."

nine illegals killed, 12 injured, in rollover

The driver of a large SUV carrying up to 22 people attempted to make a U-turn with Border Patrol agents in pursuit. The SUV rolled over.

Living in fear of raids

Concern rises as government teams target the worst offenders. Details here.

Chinese Death Vans

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a better idea than machine-readable biometric identity cards for migrant workers

Proposal to implant RFID tracking tags in migrant workers.

Life on a troubled frontier

An interesting report of what is happening along the 1,952 mile southern border from the Gulf of Mexico to the beach at California.

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