Inspiring. The death has been announced in Nepal of an 88-year-old woman who became a symbol of protests against King Gyanendra for nearly four years. Chhaya Devi Parajuli¿s death, confirmed by her daughter, came five weeks after she was knocked over by a motorcycle. Chhaya Devi Parajuli was a remarkably consistent and visible presence in…
Journalist Faces Charges Over Entering Darfur Region
Sudan seems to have figured out that if they keep Darfur out of the news it won’t take long for the pathetically weak display of outrage from the rest of the world to die down. EL FASHER, Sudan, Aug. 27 — The Sudanese government has charged Paul Salopek, a foreign correspondent for The Chicago Tribune…
Al Gore really is changing the world….
Although the Internet is a democratizing force, television is still the most influential form of media and citizens ought to have more control over its programming, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore said on Sunday. Gore, long an advocate of the information superhighway and now the owner of a U.S.-based current affairs TV channel that…
Wake Island threatened by Ioke
A lot of people don’t realize that Wake Island is a part of the Hawaiian Islands. The northwest Hawaiian islands stretch all the way to Wake. Islands include Lehua, Necker, French Frigate Shoals, Nihoa, and others. Nearly all are uninhabited. cd A Category 4 storm is heading toward Wake Island in the western Pacific Ocean….
Oldest woman…not anymore….
Who is the oldest now? There can be only one…just like highlander…maybe she was offed by another super senior… cd Maria Esther de Capovilla, considered the world’s oldest person, has died in her native Ecuador, her granddaughter said Monday. At 116, she was born the same year as Charlie Chaplin and married the year the…
It wasn't my fault…the dog was driving…
People get really wacky when it comes to their dogs. I remember a family that I used to know that loved showing everyone how their dogs were great at playing the piano. They just got on the bench and made the keys dirty while running up and down making a terrible racket. People give their…
Work! Work! Work! (But Don't Ask for a Wage – Workers in China Cost us $2500 a Year)
Globalization is a funny thing. It makes the rich richer and the poor poorer because capital happens to be mobile and capital is worth more some places than others. It eliminates the jobs from the lower and lower middle class in the U.S. and it scares people from the lower and middle class to work even harder,…
BlogExplosion – K-Squared Ramblings
I spotted this at BlogExplosion – K-Squared Ramblings with the following text… “Random tagging or someone who got the point of the PSA and took it too far.”
See Through Public Toilets
I stumbled across this beauty at Random Good Stuff It would be a totally wierd feeling to be taking a big dumparoo and have strangers walking by…unless you are that bum that likes to drop em in front of McDonalds at 8:30 every morning… cd
And the gold for mobile throwing goes to ….A Finn!
To find out more about this incredible event invented by the country that had mobile phones in every hand in the 80’s and that inspired a plastic boot maker called Nokia to make small mobiles….check out the official phone throwing site http://www.savonlinnafestivals.com/en_index.htm Anyone wanting to throw away their mobile phone can do it in style…