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Reusing your Christmas wrapping

So in just a few hours you will be unwrapping your Christmas gifts, or wrapping them, and we wanted to take this time to remind you that it's still important to have a Green Holiday and care for the environment, so...

Brooklyn man wants you to burst bubble ... but one day at time

Like popping bubbles in bubble wrap?  Don't we all?  A Brooklyn man has designed a calendar that will drive fanatics bubble-popping mad." Stephen Turbek, 36, who works nine-to-five in the financial...

Tips To Help Your Dog Stay Calm and Stay Home This Fireworks Season

"Animal shelters around the country will be preparing their kennels over the next couple of days to receive the usual number of "fireworks dogs" who escape their homes/yards after becoming frightened of Fourth of July fireworks displays. Susan Sharpe, APDT, CPDT, owner of...

Woman Wins Her Funeral In Competition

" A Texas woman was thrilled to win a competition at a baseball game - but she isn't planning to claim the prize of a funeral and burial plot any time soon. Competition had morbid prizeElaine Fulps was the lucky...

‘Philippine hospitals not good for health’--expert

A UK-based health expert has warned about the dangers of chemicals found in common household and industrial materials which, unavoidably, are also found in medical care institutions.  I've always had that queasy feeling when in hospitals." Unknown to many,...

Hillary Staying in Because Obama Could Get Assassinated

Oh... my... God! " Hillary Clinton today brought up the assassination of Sen. Robert Kennedy while defending her decision to stay in the race against Barack Obama. "My husband did not wrap up the nomination in...

New Orleans to hold its first online tax sale

 Update: Next NOLA tax sale Dec. 12. Still a lot left.Get ready for the next round. "2,500 properties go on block Monday Saturday, November 24, 2007 By Gordon Russell New Orleans officials announced they...

Digital consumer rights

"Digital consumer rights Sean Whelan, Europe Correspondent, reports that the plea for digital consumer rights is pretty much Jim Murray's last act after 17 years as director of the European Consumer Organisation. 'Do we have to accept that when we take the shrink wrap off a...

Bangladesh Cyclone:10,000 people may be Dead

Thousands of homes were ripped apart by ferocious winds, and tracts of farmland have been severely damaged. “The first priority is to distribute food and other relief items, to provide emergency shelter, and to...

Pranksters Wrap Rove's Car

"Pranksters Wrap Rove's Car Karl Rove, your car is ready. White House pranksters wrapped Rove's Jaguar in plastic wrap on the private driveway next to the West Wing. Rove's car is easily recognizable because of...

PuchiPuchi - Bubble Wrap Toy

Addicted to popping bubble wrap? Then PuchiPuchi is the right thing for you. You can take it with you and you will never run out of bubble wrap but take enough batteries with you. And to surprise you every 100 pop is a fart,barking dog, door chime or a sexy voice.

MySpace to acquire Photobucket

"Rupert Murdoch watched Google snatch YouTube, but he's not letting Photobucket get away. Social-networking site MySpace, owned by Murdoch's News Corp., has agreed to acquire Photobucket, the Web's No. 1 photo-sharing service, according to a source close to the deal. The...

Alarm over building site pranks

"A West Yorkshire building firm has vowed to hunt down workers who filmed themselves performing dangerous stunts on a construction site. Workers from NG Bailey were shown setting fire to each other, fighting with sticks and diving from a crane into a pile of cardboard...

Russia:Cancel U.S. Sanctions on Russian Companies

....The U.S. imposed sanctions on three Russian companies and organizations - arms exporter Rosoboronexport, the Tula Instrument-Making Design Bureau, and the Kolomna Machine-Building Design Bureau - for allegedly selling missiles and weapons goods to Iran and...

Lord Mayor's Show

This annual event has been taking over the streets of London for nearly 800 years now. The parade involves over 6,000 people, bands, over 140 decorated floats, costumed performers and a gilded State Coach that the Lord Mayor travels in. If you aren't sick of fireworks by this...

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