Want to look like a Utah Polygamist? Now you can!

While I personally would rather see women be more modest (compared to the thong bikinis and some of the clothing of today) I think that much like the traditional burka, this is a little extreme. "DALLAS – Just...

Hot Wheels hit the road for 40th anniversary

Previous articles on the 40th birthday of Hot Wheels can be seen here.I wish I could go to one of the road shows, but I don't think they are stopping in Vancouver. Seems more interesting than a regular car show...

When Elements Go Extinct

Imagine, if you will, a world without flat-panel monitors. Beyond that, though, limited quatities of halfnium, gallium, and (one day) zinc will seriously afffect our ability to mass produce the tools and gadgets...

Iraq sues companies over oil-for-food kickbacks

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorSoldiers fighting and dying in Iraq must be feeling cold comfort in knowing what they thought was making a difference to a people suffering, will now know what was...

Twitter, What Are You Doing to Me?

There can never be too much irony in the world. She couldn't be talking about me. Have to go check my twitter to see if my friends think so...   "Amanda Gravel from Social Honeycomb created a video to ask the Twitter staff, "what are you doing to me?" With the recent...

Wiltshire crop circle identified as symbolic code for first ten places of pi

" Mathematicians are perplexed after a highly complex crop circle appeared in a Wiltshire field - depicting a fundamental mathematical symbol. The circle is, apparently, a coded image representing a complex...

Catholic Church to export energy

This a very smart move!–By Barney Zwartz , the Age, June 16, 2008"THE Catholic Church in Australia hopes to be contributing electricity to the national grid and to be mostly self-sufficient in water in 25 years.""The goal of the Greening...

NASA Launches new GLAST Gamma-Ray Telescope

UPDATE: The solar arrays deployed successfully. Engineers are now running a series of tests to check out the telescope's systems.Original story follows.And we have--another successful liftoff! This time, an...

China declares quake lake crisis over

The potential for the 'quake lake' - a lake in China whose dam was threatened by the earthquake there - to flood has been removed, according to the Chinese government."Evacuees headed down from temporary camps Wednesday after Chinese authorities declared the flood threat over...

Heat, humidity spawn severe storms in Ont., N.B. and Sask.

Severe winds and rain battered a huge swath between Windsor and Toronto and was felt as far away as New Brunswick during the evening and overnight on Sunday. And that big funnel and huge amount of wind you might...

Euro 2008: Romania 0-0 France

A bad start for France, in a difficult group with Holland and Italy up next."Romania 0-0 France Zurich, 9 June 2008 606 debate |Blog ReportHighlightsPlayer RaterPhotosMatch statswhichTab(); ...

Aftershocks hit brimming China quake lake

Aftershock has forced rise in water levels in tunnels and dumped more debris into the water. Chinese Army is working on a war footing basis to clear the debris. They are working to finish it before starting...

No One Reported Injured or Giggling After 'Laughing Gas' Accident at Belfast ...

" DUBLIN, Ireland —  An accident in a chemical plant Friday created a frightening-looking cloud of "laughing gas," government and emergency officials said. Nobody was reported to be injured — or to be giggling uncontrollably.The Northern Ireland Department of...

US quits Human Rights Council?

As human right is not my beat  - I'm more a casual observer - there isno context for me to use in interpreting what the hell this means. Butwhatever it means it doesn't sound good. Those of you who are smarter at this should feel free to comment yourbuns off on this one....

More Trouble to Come in the Airline Industry

In the past months, almost 25 airlines have gone bankrupt and it seems that it won't stop there.  "The global airline industry is taking a beating these days -- it could lose as much as $6.1 billion this year...

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