Vancouver's baby beluga has a new name: Tiqa

5 months after the female whale was born at the Vancouver Aquarium, baby beluga has got a new name. The aquarium held a contest over the past couple of months to name the calf. The belugas are one of the big...

Alicia Keys to find backing singer via Myspace

Talented singer Alicia Keys will be looking for a new backing singer - by auditioning singers on the popular social networking site, Myspace. I guess it means that people who can't travel to audition can still...

The Hives ask fans to make art for new single

This is cool for the fans I suppose, but a little lazy on the part of the band. If your job is to be an artist, pick up a pen and draw something on the cover. "12/19/2007 For many fans of music being a part of...

Redesigned British flag wins poll and is weird

I think it's telling that the winning designer wanted to remain anonymous."When Ian Lucas, a Welsh Labour MP, suggested the Union flag be redrawn to incorporate the Welsh dragon, he could not have imagined that...

Calling All Local Artist

"Upstate Carolina Medical Center is accepting photo submissions to be included in its 2008 community calendar. For the past two years, the hospital has published a calendar featuring the artwork of local artists. The more than 3,000 calendars are made available to anyone at...

Internet users transformed into news reporters

I'm constantly amazed at the international reach of this story.   here is the Middle East Times in Egypt talking about our deal with the AP:"SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA -- As picture-taking mobile telephones...

Review of OHS regulations

Its important to always be up date and participating in the formulating of new regulations for OHSE.Often it is easy to become to busy or simply ignore changes aand accept them as is passively.We caant complain though if these regualtions lack the protections we require if we...

I've dugg, been up and down the vine and decided to go Public!

I absolutely love NowPublic!I tried digg.  It's a great site but I just couldn't participate in the submitting end of things.  I don't know how many times I tried to submit something I had just seen/read/heard only to find out it had already been submitted.  In...

More Votes Than Registered Voters

The mainstream media censored the vast majority of the evidence of fraud, so that most Americans to this day, have never heard a fraction of what was amiss.

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