The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco will get a suicide net it was voted today, but where the money is coming from is still to be decided. A bridge in BC currently being built will also get a suicide barrier, but...
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The map of the world may have to be redrawn. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and various scientists around the world, sea levels could rise 1.5 meters by the end of this century. If...
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Violinist and scholar Naini Ghuman was graduated from Oxford and the University of California at Berkeley. She's a violinist, scholar, author, and her passion is Edward Elgar and musical traditions in India.When she returned to the U.S. from a research trip to England, she...
Wired used Google and NASA algorithms top find you the top ten cities in NA to get your geek on. Read the legend at the top right hand corner of the page. It's the best!
We reported this story back in October and it is once again in the headlines, but this it's not being reported or it's trendyness, but rather because two people have died "ghost-riding the whip." Millions of us...
" Jack London The Iron Heel It is a great novel. A form of science fiction in the alternative hsitory/ future vien. Written in 1908. Yet it predicts WWI and the real reasons for it. "
"Don Martin in the National Post sums up the latest Harper shoot from the lip international blunder. It seems every time Harper gets on a plane he suffers from Air Rage. He did it this summer over the war in Lebanon and now he does it to China. Truly he is no Statesman. And...
"Canada accuses Chinese envoy of spying on the homophobic fascist cult the Falun Gong. After having been embarassed by the Chinese government who snubbed a meeting with Harper, now the Harpocrites do a bit of tit for tat."
"With Tories like Rob Anders, Jason Kenney and Stockwell Day supporting the fascist homophobic CIA cult; Falun Gong this was bound to happen; China snubs Harper"
In my search for the Tokyo Police Club, a Toronto based and assembled band playing in San Fransisco on Saturday -- I found this website that lists the top 33, hottest bands in Canada. Tokyo is number #7.
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"On June 22nd, at the trendy Anu bar in San Francisco, digg.com founder and architect Kevin Rose revealed digg version 3. I’ve been a digg user for about a year now, and I know a lot of you out there aren’t. So to give you a little background, digg is a social news site....
"F you visit the SoMa district of San Francisco, you can eat a five-course meal while you sit on an oversize bed and watch a performance artist stretch the definition of theater. You can drop in on a penguin feeding or paddle a kayak in search of floating baseballs in the...