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Victoria group considers free shopping carts for the homeless
While many cities spend resources trying to fight shopping cart theft, one group in Victoria wants to give them out for free. The move is an attempt to raise visibility and awareness of the homeless crisis in the... Bent banana and curved cucumber rules dropped
Just how many man hours are spent on ridiculous EU rules is anyone's guess, but now a ray of common sense is fermenting in the Euro countries...."A majority of EU member states, including Britain and Ireland, have... Cartoonists use humour to tackle climate change
Working with cartoons can help to bring the message in a humorful way to the public. On my professional work at Mileunet Foundation in the Netherlands we are quit familiar with the power of cartoons. We use them... To RSS or not to RSS? That is the Beijing 2008 online content question
"With so many websites - including this one - out to capitalize on the spike of global interest surrounding the Olympic Games an interesting divide has developed in the way publishers are approaching the RSS feed. Do RSS feeds promote a site across the web, or do they provide...Activists win right to promote condoms to Catholics at World Youth Day
Activitists in Australia have won the right to distribute condoms at the world youth day in Sydney marking the pope's visit, blocking an order that had attempted to stop them from doing so by barring people from "annoying" the pilgrims."Young Catholics attending World Youth... Bon Jovi Rock Free Concert in Central Park
Legendary rockers Bon Jovi played a massive show in New York's Central Park last Saturday. Although some tickets were rumoured to have been hawked on eBay for as much as $1,500, thousands of fans still managed... Comcast Faces FCC Sanctions for Blocking Web Traffic
Comcast, the nation's largest cable company, violated federal guidelines when it blocked and degraded Web traffic, the head of the Federal Communications Commission will announce Friday." The sanctions would be the first time the commission has come down on an internet... Dad Sells Baby's Name for $100 Gas Card
"An Orlando man has traded the naming rights to his unborn son for a $100 gas card.David Partin recently heard that a local radio station was giving $100 worth of free gas to the listener who called in with the most... Urban farming takes root in Detroit - This might solve the world food price r...
Could growing fresh vegetables help save crumbling inner cities around the world and tackle hunger? Putting in the spade-work at one of the charity's gardens That is the ambitious aim of a charity called Urban Farming, which has... Whats Wrong with Selling Ghana Telecom?
"Is there really anything wrong with Ghana selling a majority share of its state owned telecom company, Ghana Telecom to a British concern? After all governments are supposed to be in the business of taxing businesses not running them, right? Here is an alternate... Collision Course: Apple Mobileme vs Microsoft Live Mesh
" 36 views Jul 9, 2008 Collision Course: Apple Mobileme vs Microsoft Live Mesh Microsoft and Apple have been fighting each other for the public perception in the Innovation Space, Apple has been in the front, putting together ideas and services faster...Yahoo Wields New Tool to Battle Google
"Yahoo Inc. will introduce a tool for Web developers Thursday that is designed to expand the scale of its struggling search business and help create new competitors to Google Inc. The company said the free tool will allow developers to build customized search services based... Johnson scraps plan to tax London gas guzzlers
London mayor Boris Johnson has fulfilled an election promise to abolish the special tax on large, gas-guzzling cars set by his predecessor, Ken Livingstone. The plan would have taxed so-called "Chelsea tractors," or... Frenzied demand for Apple's new 3G iPhone in the UK
I was going to switch to the iPhone but I got a shock when I saw the price of the packages on offer here in the Republic of Ireland, especially as the Data bundle is limited to 1G:It will be available in an 8GB...Five-year-olds to study Shakespeare
Students in primary and secondary school will be taught Shakespeare in England. Each school will get a free copy of Shakespeare: The Animated Tales on DVD. "School children as young as five will be...
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