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Travel website pays $1.1 million for one extra letter 'S'

A British company Cruise.co.uk, that sells cruise-related products, paid $1.1 million to get the domain rights for Cruises.co.uk. The reason given: It doesn’t want to lose traffic when people search for the word “Cruises” or “Cruise".
Posted Feb 8, 2008 by  cgull in Internet

Winning Early Paid Off For Obama

The early wins achieved by US Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama had paid off as he managed to raise $32 Million in January. This matches the best three-month period of fundraising in 2007.
Posted Jan 31, 2008 by  Can Tran (TFactor) in Politics | 1 comment

Hillary Clinton Meets 'Belvis The Black Elvis'

CBS News blogger Fernando Suarez posts in his “From The Road” blog from Little Rock, Arkansas with US Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton met ‘Belvis’ who is the Black Elvis.
Posted Jan 30, 2008 by  Can Tran (TFactor) in Politics

Boy Glues Hand To Bed To Avoid Going Back To School

Ten-year old Diego Palacios of Mexico had glued his hand to his bed because he did not want to go back to school after the Christmas break. He had thought having his hand glued to the bed was better than school.
Posted Jan 8, 2008 by  Can Tran (TFactor) in World | 1 comment

Benazir Bhutto's Son Named as Her Successor

Despite his rumoured lack of interest in politics, Bilawal Bhutto, 19, son of the slain Benazir Bhutto, has been handpicked by the leadership of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) to succeed his mother as head of the party.
Posted Dec 30, 2007 by  pajamadeen in Politics | 9 comments

Op-Ed: The Toronto Maple Leafs Must Fire Head Coach Paul Maurice

The Toronto Maple Leafs are in a free-fall. They've lost seven of their last eight games, including last night's 4-3 decision to the Montreal Canadiens. It's time for a change. It's time to fire head coach Paul Maurice.
Posted Nov 28, 2007 by  Navin Vaswani in Sports | 18 comments

Sleeping With The Enemy: How Kids Won't Heed the Safe Sex Message

It would appear that kids in the UK just aren't getting the message as numbers of new cases of sexually transmitted infections rises to an all time high. The campaign for safe sex targeted at young people is failing to hit the spot
Posted Nov 23, 2007 by  Planet Janet (PJ) in Lifestyle | 6 comments

Red Tide Causing Problems For Marine Life, Humans

Red tide is caused by a phenomenon where toxic species of algae accumulate rapidly in an area of water, causing death to a variety of life and creating allergy-like symptoms in humans. Now, it has been found as far North as Delaware's inland bays.
Posted Nov 23, 2007 by  Debra Myers (skyangel) in Environment | 4 comments

Angola: Unknown Virus Under Investigation

The investigation of an outbreak of unknown origin in Angola has revealed extremely high levels of bromide in plasma sampled from several affected patients. High percentage of victims are children under 15.
Posted Nov 22, 2007 by  Bob Ewing in World | 13 comments

Taj Mahal, India says no thanks to US Dollars

The US dollars is losing its exchange value significantly compared with the Indian currency, Rupee, so the Indian authorities will no longer accept US dollars from the tourists at major cultural sites in India like Taj Mahal.
Posted Nov 16, 2007 by  cgull in World | 4 comments

New Security Report Warns Climate Change Earth's Biggest problem

The top two US Think Tanks release a sponsored report painting a dire picture of the consequences of drastic climate change. On every level, the scenario is one of chaos, societal breakdown and ceaseless warfare.
Posted Nov 4, 2007 by  mirrorwarp in Environment | 4 comments

The world's tiniest baby at 10oz

When she was born, 15 weeks premature and weighing 10 1/2 ounces, her father's confidence was about the only thing on Kimberly Mueller's side. In the few moments he was allowed before she was whisked away, Andreas Mueller spoke from his heart.
Posted Sep 28, 2007 by  RobotGod in World | 2 comments

At 75, Saudi Arabia split by conservatism, modernity

Sand, camels, dirt roads, pearl fishermen and Bedouin tribesmen. This was what the present-day Saudi Arabia looked like in 1932 when it was established as a monarchy named after its founder, Abd-al-Aziz Al Saud.
Posted Sep 28, 2007 by  dpa news in World

Woman has yard full of snapping turtles

Earlier this summer, Betty Kratzke noticed that something was disturbing the ground near the flowers lining her driveway. Solving the mystery this week, it turned out that baby snapping turtles started crawling around her yard.
Posted Sep 7, 2007 by  RobotGod in World | 1 comment

September 8: World Rabies Day

World Rabies Day is new as of this year. The event is being recognized internationally, and it's goal is to educate people that although rabies is deadly, it is preventable. Last year, 55,000 people died from rabies worldwide.
Posted Sep 7, 2007 by  Debra Myers (skyangel) in Education | 7 comments

Dino-killer asteroid was chip off a rock that sprayed shrapnel around Solar System

So here’s a theory or two. The asteroid which hit Earth and supposedly wiped out the dinosaurs was a fragment of a much bigger asteroid- and astronomers think they’ve found what’s left of the original.
Posted Sep 6, 2007 by  Paul Wallis (Wanderlaugh) in Science | 1 comment

Mysterious Fireball UFO spotted in New Jersey

An unidentified flying object was spotted over the ocean off the Jersey shore last night. Also the UFO was spotted in Fire Island, South Carolina. Officials have no idea what the object was.
Posted Sep 4, 2007 by  cgull in Environment | 3 comments

Majority Leader Misses Town Hall Meeting

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer was scheduled to come to Syracuse today for a town hall meeting. The only such meeting he was to participate in this month, it was carefully selected to lend support to Democratic Congressional candidate Dan Maffei.
Posted Aug 21, 2007 by  Left-Handed Elephant in Politics

Bronx basement lab of horrors discovered

A locked Bronx basement turned out to be a ghoulish laboratory of horrors, filled with preserved human skulls, sulfuric acid and possibly a human fetus soaking in a jar of formaldehyde.
Posted Aug 21, 2007 by  RobotGod in Crime | 1 comment

Microsoft says Your Password Must Be at Least 18,770 Characters

Microsoft says your 17,145 character password is not sufficient; it must be at least 18,770 characters minimum. Plus it cannot repeat any of the previous 30,689 passwords you have set.
Posted Aug 21, 2007 by  cgull in Entertainment | 7 comments
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