Church and police join forces to end binge drinking

A new campaign is being launched in Wales today with the aim of ending binge drinking. People are signing a pledge to stop the practice, which is very common in the UK."PEOPLE across Wales are today urged to pledge to stop binge drinking as an unprecedented coalition of...

Meteora, the Holy Rocks in Greece

"Meteora, the Holy Rocks in Greece By Tushar Mathur | Nov 13, 2008 Somewhere between Pindos and Hasiya, where the plain of Thessaly landscape lost the first roll of the magnificent mountains in central Greece, is the Meteora. Huge dark rocks, which rise in the...

Could animals be transformed into medical devices?

I thought this was such a fascinating project. Not totally sure it is a good idea! But so thought provoking, as good design projects are, and I love the imagery that accompanies the project. " Revital Cohen's  final project at the Design Interactions department looked at...

Why you like your candidate

"You like him primarily because he is black, but doesn’t remind you of any black people you know in real life. "

Ringtones remind faithful of Allah

"South African mobile phone provider MTN has just launched a series of Islamic ringtones in Nigeria, targeting the West African country's some 70m Muslims in one of its biggest markets. 'Go express your faith,' is the line in MTN's full-page newspaper advertisement for its...

Get SmarterChild in Gmail

"Aim Get SmarterChild in Gmail smarterchild.png Now that Gmail's got AIM support baked into the web interface, Gmailer Steve Rubel commented how nice it will be to have SmarterChild along with your email. Nearly three years ago we first posted about SmarterChild, an AIM bot...

Death Needs A Mop

"In his top-of-the-heap book, Markus Zusak gives all you would expect in a novel about wartime Germany. But his trick is to make Death his narrator, writes Marianne Brace HOW do you write a fresh story about the Holocaust? Australian novelist Markus Zusak has cracked it with...

U.S. Soldiers admit they tortured Iraq inmates...and YouTube has removed the ...

I defy anyone, regardless of their political stripes that supports this illegal invasion of Iraq to explain this empirically damaging evidence away. American soldiers are goose-stepping over the human rights of the Iraqi people and no one is doing anything about it. ...

Before We “Surge” in Their Country

"Silvia Spring writes in Newsweek International that since the fall of Saddam: * Iraqi real-estate prices have gone up several hundred percent * Iraqi workers’ salaries have increased more than 100 percent * The number of cars in Baghdad has grown by 500...

Frightening picture of Pope Benedict XVI at Christmas midnight mass

"POPE Benedict has ushered in Christmas at midnight mass, saying the image of the baby Jesus born in a manger should remind everyone of the plight of poor, abused and neglected children the world over. The 79-year-old Benedict, marking the second Christmas season of his...