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Florida homes evacuated in wake of Fay
Tropical Storm Fay is still causing problems in Florida, where residents have begun to receive evacuation orders. The City of Debary ordered the evacuation of at least 180 homes this afternoon, according to local...Madonna concert video takes shot at McCain
Madonna made her political stance abundantly clear during the kick-off performance of her new tour. Apparently her concert video featured a photo of John McCain amid images of global warming and Hitler, while...
American ousts two-time champ at air guitar contest
Someone needs to make a fake documentary about air guitar contests, like Best in Show-style. Christopher Guest would make a great "Hot Lixx."And yes, there actually is an annual world air guitar...
created by Rob Peters | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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387 views | 17 recommendations | 3 comments
Gordon Brown promises more competitive sport in schools
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has vowed to make competitive sport a serious priority in UK schools, proposing a number of ideas to bring this about:1) Increase time spent on sports from two to five hours a week at...Jailed Americans in China Released
The eight Americans detained for pro-Tibet protests during the Olympic Games have been released today. American officials had been lobbying for their release over the weekend.Six of the detainees belonged to the group Free Tibet Reporters, and two were members of Students for...US to tax iTunes and digital downloads
States across the US are considering taxing digital downloads like iTunes and eMusic. They're currently tax-free because, well, legislators didn't know Amazon would exist when they drafted tax laws.This raises an interesting question. What exactly are we paying for when we...The skinny on why men are buying more clothes than women
The AP, an unlikely fashion authority, ran an article yesterday that suggests men are spending more on clothes than women. The writer says it's due to a quick and dramatic shift in men's styles toward tighter and...Sweden relaxes stance on weird children's names
Sweden has relaxed its rules on naming children weird things like Heineken, Mouthpad and Dubble Bubble. The country once frowned on such lapses of judgment, but, according to one official, it's no longer considered 'negative' in this day and age to name children after...
created by Rob Peters | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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1717 views | 0 recommendations | 5 comments
Big Brother for freelance slackers
Freelancers are sometimes envied for late breakfasts, all-day pyjama-fests, and other work-at-home delights, but as the Globe and Mail reports today, there's a website raining on the parade.It's called oDesk.com, and it connects freelancers with employers for one-off... Olympic Fashion: a country by country critique (some of them, anyway)
Canadians have been pretty hard on our country's Olympic fashion choices this year, and this blog roundup of international media critiques shows other countries are equally self-deprecating. Perhaps it's...
created by Rob Peters | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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3639 views | 2 recommendations | 9 comments
Advances in cooking 200,000 years ago made humans smart, researchers say
Humans' evolution into the smarty pantses of the animal world may have resulted from advances in cooking 200,000 years ago, researchers say, a development that made a whole lot of brain food available to us. The...
created by Rob Peters | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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2041 views | 14 recommendations | 22 comments
Toronto's rainiest summer in 70 years
We all know Torontonians want to be like Vancouverites, but this summer they've gone too far. The centre of the universe recorded five times as much rain as Vancouver during June and July, and was the second...
created by Rob Peters | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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2753 views | 10 recommendations | 20 comments
Scientists stop ageing in mice
There's been some amazing scientific discoveries reported this week. First, scientists in California have come up with substances that may prove instrumental in developing invisible cloaking technology, and now...
created by Rob Peters | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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1364 views | 2 recommendations | 4 comments
