Global Unplugging Day
Posted on March 25, 2010 by admin in Business, Society, Technology
A New York based think tank is calling for a global ‘Unplugging Day’, where everyone turns away from their technology to have a 24 hour ‘Technological Sabbath’. Millions of hyper-connected, stressed, and frequently people are driven by their need to be in touch, through iphone, emails, surfing the Net, texting and tweeting. Read more about [...]
Fleeceless Sheep To Take Over?
Posted on March 25, 2010 by admin in Business
More and more Australian sheep farmers are turning to ‘fleeceless’ sheep as the price of wool goes down and the price of lamb increases. Read how the ‘dorpers’ and ‘wiltipolls’ are set to take over…
A Toilet You Would Not Use
Posted on March 18, 2010 by admin in Humour, Vanuatu
From see through toilets to floors that make you feeling you are falling from a great height, optical illusions can have a devastating effect on us. What is your reaction to this see through toilet…
The No Go Annual Holidays
Posted on March 18, 2010 by admin in Promotion, Travel
Subconsciously bosses discourage workers to take holidays, according to travel researcher, Carolyn Childs, when discussing the findings of a recent TNS Domestic study. The study showed that senior management does not practice what they preach and thus send a mixed message, by their own bad example. “The very people telling you to use up your [...]
Defunct House Of Lords
Posted on March 17, 2010 by admin in Politics, Uncategorized, Women
The Sunday Telegraph received information that there are plans make the 704 member House of Lords, also known as the House of Peers for ceremonial purposes, by an Act of Parliament, defunct. The second (upper) house would not only be reduced, but replaced with 300 wholly-elected members, replaced by one third, at the same time [...]
The Taste Than Can Kill
Posted on March 17, 2010 by admin in Health
In an effort to eat healthy, many people carefully search the list of ingredients on food labels, in order to avoid any food containing MSG. It has recently been revealed however, that MSG and Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein, (HVP) both contain an amino acid, glutamic, which ‘enhances’ the taste of foods. In its crystalline form, the [...]
Weather The Wrong Way Up
Posted on March 17, 2010 by admin in Environment
With climate warming on the global agenda, the United States have just experienced the worst and coldest winter in the past 25 years and the 18th coldest winter in the past 115 years. It also had the 19th wettest winter ever recorded, according to the National Climatic Data Centre. Read more how Canada has experienced [...]
Fiji Lashed By Tropical Cyclone Tomas
Posted on March 16, 2010 by admin in Environment
The streets of Fiji were eerily empty on the 14th March, 2010, as Tropical Cyclone Tomas approached the northern islands of Fiji. Schools closed, public services suspenced and international flights were cancelled, as a night-time curfew was put into operation. “Wind gusts were peaking at around 230 mph,” said Matt Boterhoven, senior forecastor for the [...]
Flooded Church Reappears
Posted on March 3, 2010 by admin in Environment
In 1985 the former Venezuelan town of Potosi was deliberately flooded, so as to make way for a reservoir that would provide the nation with electricity. Now the former town has made a haunting reappearance, thanks to an historic drought caused by the El Nino weather pattern. 25 years ago, the Andean town of Potosi [...]
Greatest Easter Travel Deals
Posted on March 1, 2010 by admin in Business, Travel
With the retail economy in tatters following weak Christmas and New Year trading and the Australian dollar firm, Easter travel deals abound. 2009 was rated as being the worst ever year for airlines and the hotel industries. Airlines were forced to take a long hard look at the efficiency of how they manage their operations, [...]
