Rainbow in Strathcona Today

At about 4:15 p.m. today, a rainbow appeared over the Strathcona neighborhood in East Vancouver.   I took a photograph from Main and Union St.

Greenpeace Activists at Kingsnorth Power Station Thrown Out by Bailiffs

THE GREENPEACE vigil at Kingsnorth Power Station in Kent against coal power has come to an end after a High Court writ was granted and bailiffs sent round to remove the protestors.  A blog entry...

New Solar Energy Material Captures Every Color Of The Rainbow

Yet another solar breakthrough- the article goes into detail, but this pretty much sums it up:"Researchers have created a new material that overcomes two of the major obstacles to solar power: it absorbs all the energy contained in sunlight, and generates electrons in a way...

Gay Pride lights up CN Tower

Amongst a crowd of satisfied Jays fans, a few eager junkies and two or three amateur photogs the CN Tower lite up the harbor skyline with a brilliant rainbow pattern in anticipation of this...

California Dreamin: Hundreds of Gays Wed

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorDespit previous reports where some country clerks refused to officiate Gay Marriages, the floodgates opened as hundreds of Gays and Lesbians take advantage of...

Gay couples rush to get married in California

" Gay couples rush to get married in California By LISA LEFF, Associated...

Stick your gum on a pole in South Carolina...risk going to jail

Better watch where you stick your gum if you live in South Carolina.  Utility poles seem to be a popular spot for people to their stick gum, and city officials in Charleston are enforcing higher...

Coal plant: Rainbow Warrior ‘dumped sewage in Tayabas Bay’

" An official of Team Energy’s (TE) coal-fired power plant in Pagbilao town has accused the international environment organization Greenpeace of dumping sewage with high coliform content into Tayabas Bay during its three-day protest there last month.But Greenpeace quickly...

Marked & Massacred: The Rise of Gay Culture & Symbolism

"Pre-Nazi Germany of the 1920's saw the modern world's first gay rights movement and the mergence of a visible lesbian and gay culture. "Unbeknown to many are the thousands of homosexual males marked and massacred...

Ubisoft's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 Sells Over 2 Million: A Review

Tom Clancy must be worth a fortune. Not only does he have some major best sellers and multiple movies behind him, he's got his name attached to one of the best selling games of all time.Ubisoft's Rainbow Six Vegas...

Greenpeace blocks CPO tanker in Dumai waters

"The tanker, MT Westama, loaded with 30,000 tons of CPO, was leaving Dumai port when it was intercepted by Rainbow Warrior of Greenpeace.A giant poster reading "Palm Oil Kills Forests and Climate" was attached to...

Radiohead's new box set: A plot at the end of In Rainbows?

A new box set of Radiohead's back catalogue is being released by its old label at the same time as the band's new album, In Rainbows. Some say EMI's timing reflects a behind-the-scenes feud between the label and Radiohead."Tension between Radiohead and EMI was highlighted...

Healthy eating: Preventing illness

The best practise and pattern in food will give us some extra strength to work on. I used to talked about these food behaviours among my friends, they are saying that  they couldn't find time to get their breakfast at the correct time. What makes them to be like...

MySpace, DeathSpace

"Behold a community spawned from twin American obsessions: Memorializing the dead and peering into strangers' lives. Anyone with Internet access can submit a death to the site, which currently lists nearly 2,700...

Gay Pride Rocks Sao Paulo

How big is gay pride in Sao Paulo, Brazil? Big. Very, very big. According to organizers, it's the largest such parade ever."More than 1 million people packed the streets of Sao Paulo for what organizers said was...

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