How to get a car rental

"There’s more to renting the car than just reserving it and paying for it, to make sure that you get the best deal follow these steps and tips. STEPS: 1.Choose three to four car rental firms that fit your wants and needs, do this either through the phone book, or through...

Mazel Tov! Israeli weddings introduce ATMs

This is an idea that will catch in many parts of the world especially for Catholic "first-communion" and "confirmation" as kids prefer getting cash."Mazel Tov! Israeli weddings introduce ATMs Thursday, 10 July 2008 17:51 A new...

Germany: High Oil Prices are Painful for Us too!

In light of all of the complaints in the US about high oil prices and gas, today's article in Germany's newspaper, the Spiegel, outlined that this is a global problem that is also affecting Germany and people all...

Cuba to abandon salary Parity

Change of leadership in Cuba has brought a whiff of changes. Cubans have realised benefits of free economy and as first step they allowed mobile phones. Now old system of same pay for everyone is going to be...

Perhaps 60 percent of today’s oil price is pure speculation

I think this article says it all. We are being reamed, and Enron does have the last laugh."Perhaps 60 percent of today’s oil price is pure speculationBy F. William EngdahlOnline Journal Contributing WriterMay 5, 2008, 00:19The price of crude oil today is not made according...

Customer Service: WTF is That?

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorYes, we have all heard of it, "Customer Service", like Jesus, Allah, Buddha or an honest Politician, a myth we have never actually seen.  Marketers today are putting a...

Mandylion Password Manager

"Military-grade password protection! Unfortunately, we all have to deal with modern life’s little cyber-burden, the password. Some of us do so by simply re-using an old password when the system asks you to change it. Other times we use the same password but just add the...

Ecstasy Safer Than Asprin Claims Top Cop

"KILLER drug ecstasy is safer than ASPIRIN, top cop Richard Brunstrom claimed yesterday. He also repeated his call for Class A substances like heroin and cocaine to be LEGALISED. The North Wales chief const-able...

60 electric car chargers go in

"Free electric car charging points are being installed across central London. Westminster council is putting in 10 roadside posts following a trial of two in Covent Garden. About another 50 will be installed in 13 of...

List-a-licious: The -est of 2007

"It isn't only Santa who gets listy in December. Lazy observers of culture (present company sheepishly included) also turn to the list -- a convenient way to create splashy content with minimal reportage. Here at Celebritology central, we've been accumulating an uber-list of...

I tripped over a dead rat in kits yesterday.....

I am not especially squeamish, but seeing a foot long rat dead on side walk on my leisurely little stroll between the beach and 4th Avenue the other night definitely startled me in the little bubble I live in. ...

Putting health into the patient's hands

Google vision on patient care and health related services and information as tech and search progress

Global Warming: Some Convenient Facts - May 7 Briefing

This upcoming event should prove quite interesting."CAPITOL HILL BRIEFING Monday, May 7, 2007 12:00 PM (Lunch Included) Featuring: Patrick J. Michaels, Senior Fellow in Environmental Studies, Cato Institute, Professor of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia and...

Truth? Fiction? A Sense Or Nonsense Film Premier :: MAXINE

"Today, the film premier of "An Inconvenient Truth … Or Convenient Fiction?" is being presented by the Pacific Research Institute in San Francisco at the Embarcadero Center Cinema - 1 Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, CA 94111. The film will be premiered at NO COST with...

Big Mac Immigration - The Humanitarian Hypocrisy of US Immigration Policy

"At once diminutive and globe spanning, few objects are more quintessentially American than the humble Big-Mac. It is at once real and artificial, mass produced and made to order, personal, global, inexpensive, and...

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