Safe-climate lifestyles follow green path to protect the Earth

In the midst of doing some reading online the other day, a certainphrase popped out at me from a press release from an Australian greengroup that spoke about a "safe-climate future" in an article by RyanKing headlined "Scientists target safe-climate future".The term SAFE...

Global Warming Blogger Calls for Polar Cities for Future Survival of Humankind

This is my "idea" for future polar cities to house potential survivors of global warming in year 2500 or yea 3500, far far away. I wonder if you think this idea is worthwhile, in terms of making people THINK about global warming and that if we don't take steps now to stop the...

"New Year Dance 2008" is a song and video set to reach global audience on Dec...

"New Year Dance 2008" is a song and video set to reach global audience on December 31.  Although it is still 105 days, 11 hours, 8 minutes and 11 seconds until Tueday, January 1, 2008, the dance song (and dailymotion.com video) is already hitting the Internet bandwaves...

Taiwanese inventor nominated for 2007 Ig Nobel Prize

Hsieh Kuo-cheng, a Taiwanese inventor, has a patented device called ''a Net Trapping System to catch a bank robber''. He invented it in 1999, and patented it in the US in 2001. Most people have never heard of him or of his invention, but they soon will. Why? Because Mr Hsieh...

Maddy McCann story takes strange turn

We are happy to face questioning by police, say Madeleine's rents /* Global variables that are used for "image browsing". Used on article pages to rotate the images of a story. */ var sImageBrowserImagePath = ''; var aArticleImages = new Array(); var...

Leading cause of death in Chinese restaurant industry in America is homicide

The leading cause of death in the Chinese restaurant industry is homicide Jennifer 8. Lee, writing on her book blog for "The Fortune Cookie Chronicles", due out in March 2008, notes that "The leading cause of death in the Chinese restaurant industry is homicide". She goes...

Ong Ger & Liu Ger Tour Around Taiwan (1959 movie)

The black-and-white movie Ông Ko & Liú Ko Tour Around Taiwan (released in Taiwan in 1959) was a huge hit, followed by a series of sequels. A DVD of the movie is available on loan for researchers at the Chinese Taipei Film Archive in Taipei. I am not a film critic and this...

Make room, Santa Claus; Here come Bubbie and Zadie!

NEW YORK — Christian kids have been writing letters to Santa Claus for Christmas for over 100 years, and now Jewish children have a chance to write special Hannukah letters to Bubbie and Zadie, an imaginary pair of grandparents who read all their mail and reply as well,...