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The US Army Corps of Engineers is now at New Orleans inspecting the levees, determining what course of action to take in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. They will be working with the local authorities to ensure no further life is lost, and to help fix the levee.
Right now the Engineers are working with the [...]

Today, an ostrich got lose on the Golden Gate bridge. Yes that’s right, an ostrich. Well at least it can’t bury its head in the concrete … but for 8 minutes it gave the police a good run for their money. Just imagine the cellphone calls, “Hey I’m going to be late for work, there’s [...]

The hurricane name Katrina will be forever etched onto the collective memories of not only those who suffered from it, but their countrymen and those ameriphiles around the world. It has already been compared to the tsunami disaster, not for the amount of people killed, but for the sheer scale of destruction it caused.

When disasters like this happen, we expect our fellow men (and women) to be compassionate, fair, giving, generous, and while this article points out one instance of those that aren’t, I have to say from either experience (of going through 4 hurricanes in 2004) or from watching it on TV, that most have been. But sometimes, the scum surfaces and breathes deeply the air of despair and misery… only likely to increase now that New Orleans is being completely evacuated.

Diane, posted this article a day or two back, when she found that a hotel had suddenly jacked up its pricing from $79 to $200 a night. Wowzer! So overnight a hotel (Comfort Suites) had to make a solid $121 per night more than the previous nights. Uh huh. This practice is commonly called PRICE GOUGING. Comfort Suites, you should be ashamed of yourselves!

For years the naysayers and worrywarts have been telling us that too much cellphone use (or any, in some cases) can cause cancer of the brain and/or ear. Today, the results of a large-scale study (the Institute of Cancer Research studied 4,000 people) on this have proven this to be entirely anecdotal - at least [...]

I suppose it’s as good as any other idol (and comparable with some American Idols even). This post by Dan Gillmor gave me a giggle this morning - asking the Kansas Education Board to consider the creation of the Universe by the Flying Spaghetti Monster (find a bigger pic here); I’d seen the photo before, [...]

They have agreed on a Constitution, and yet they have NOT agreed! The Sunni representatives of the current transitional government have said they will oppose it, and urge their constituencies to do the same. So why agree in the first place if they’re simply going to disagree?
There are three main groups involved here, the [...]

Am I seeing things correctly? Russia’s United Russia, the majority party in Russia, has said that it has plans to join the European Democratic Union in the near future? Perhaps feeling left out in the cold (no pun intended) is slowly edging Russia into the world affairs sidelines? Europe is going on, the Cold War [...]

The storm that hit us once, is hitting us again! She’s a big storm that hit Florida at category 1 then sucked up some more energy in the Gulf, got back up to category 4 then hit land again. Donklephant writes about people taking cover in The Superdome. Thankfully however the city of New Orleans, [...]

Just in case you link to old style ?page_id WP links, I have changed my blog over to the permalink structure. Advised that this would be better for me, I moved over the other day (and it was really easy!).
I’m also going to be changing one or two minor things, maybe a font size here [...]

I’ve written about coffee before, how much I like coffee, and in fact only the other day posted a funny thing about how much coffee it would take to kill you.
Today, I present: The Good Side of Coffee! Dada! *points at the blinking sign*
So! Antioxidants are good for us right? Yes! As we can see:

Men [...]