Pirates of the Caribbean ride to update in conjunction with film sequel.
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Friday Femmes Fatales No 43 (Women bloggers)
From the critic's dilemma, to the case against soft drinks, to punk knitting ...
Read More »Our Story Is Not History For Everybody
Colonial attitudes have proven unwieldy in the past and have caused nothing but trouble; don't you think it's time we tried something different?
Read More »New Reality Series Gold Rush to Air on AOL.com
2006 may be the year the Internet becomes a true alternative “broadcast” medium, between podcasts, online radio, streaming video popping up everywhere, and now, quite significantly, the announcement that reality TV guru Mark Burnett (Survivor, The Apprentice, The Contender, Rock Star) signed a deal with AOL to produce an online …
Read More »Researchers Hope “Cashless” Society Is Far Into The Future
A study used the US paper currency tracking website WheresGeorge to simulate the spread of disease.
Read More »Making London a Sustainable City: Is It Possible?
Can a city of seven million, with still largely Victorian infrastructure that is choked with very 20th-century traffic, become green?
Read More »RIAA Lawsuit Targets Getting Help From Within and Without the Industry
Nettwerk Music Group and an anti-RIAA blog help out lawsuits targets.
Read More »Disabled: The Invisible Minority
Of course I notice they don't have handicap elevators or ramps leading up to bell towers…
Read More »Friday Femmes Fatales No 42 (Women Bloggers)
"If we assume that fatness causes feminism, then it reasonably follows that Rush Limbaugh and Jerry Falwell are feminists."
Read More »A Wonderful World: Two Discoveries
Uncovered today have been a powerful Ancient Egyptian queen and a tiny Sumatran swamp-dweller, the "world's smallest vertebrate".
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