Last night during the opening ceremony to the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics' 'Parade of Nations', China was led by World-Famous basketball player, Yao Ming (a formidable giant in height) bearing the flag for China; and walking along side him was little Lin Hao, whose bravery and courage made him asRead More →
The number 8 is the luckiest number in China. So the first day of the Beijing Olympics is starting on the most fortuitous Friday ever. In Chinese culture, certain numbers are believed by some to be auspicious (吉利) or inauspicious (不利) based on the Chinese word that the number nameRead More →
The Standup.org campaign that was mentioned on The Oprah Winfrey Show today, August 7, 2008, was a repeat of a show from earlier this year. As part of a two-day report: ‘American Schools in Crisis,’ on which Bill and Melinda Gates, the founders and co-chairs of the Bill & MelindaRead More →
I was wondering if anyone else was getting emails about acai berry? I have been getting a few a day for more than two weeks now. So I decided to do a little research. Which brought me to purplehorror.com. But first let’s talk about the acai berry… What is Acai?Read More →
eLearners.com, along with five online institutions, are making back-to-school possible for working moms. With the launch of Project Working Mom 2, eLearners.com is again partnering with U.S. colleges and universities to tap a motivated pool of degree seekers by offering $2 million in full-ride scholarships to online degree programs, justRead More →
Hanny Van Arkel, a Dutch schoolteacher, has discovered a new class of cosmic object, through a project which allows the public to take part in astronomy research online. Hanny, came across the strange gaseous blob while using the Galaxy Zoo web site to help classify galaxies in telescope images. TheRead More →
Sophos reports that the 47-year-old man from Cyprus has been given a four year jail sentence after hacking into a teenage girl’s webcam in order to take illicit pictures of the young woman in her bedroom. According to reports, the man, who has not been named (and I think heRead More →
Yes, you heard me correctly, today is National Underwear Day! National Underwear Day (August 5, 2008) even has a web site: NationalUnderwearday.com. From nationalunderwearday.com: Underwear is no longer considered "unmentionable." With National Underwear Day, we focus the public's awareness on underwear for just one day in the spirit of grandRead More →
The kids meals at your favorite restaurants are loaded with too many calories and not healthy calories either, according to a report released Monday by a nonprofit public health group. Some of the restaurants in the study were Chilis, KFC, Taco Bell, Sonic, Jack in the Box and Chick-Fil-A, asRead More →
It has been reported that Oscar winning actor Morgan Freeman was hospitalized in serious condition today, August 4, 2008, after the car he was driving careened off a rural highway and rolled several times, authorities said. This according to Reuters. Morgan Freeman is one of my all time favorite actors. Read More →