December 31, 2008

Thai police to wear smiley masks

In Asia pollution on the streets can reach levels, which are just very wrong to work in, yet the traffic do so on a daily basis. However, in Thailand the motorcycle cops have to resort to wearing anti pollution masks, which ordinarily would make them look even scarier.
So to reduce the impact these mask wearing [...]

December 29, 2008

It is a man thing

Women have known for years that playing on computer games is a make thing, but the real question is why does it have to man thing?
It turns out that playing on computer games uses parts of the brain that are linked to addiction and the feelings that you get when are rewarded for to doing [...]

December 23, 2008

X Factor is fastest selling singer

For the first time three versions of the same song are in the Top 40 music charts, but the number one spot has been claimed by the winner of the talent show the X Factor, Alexandra Burke who become the fastest selling female solo artist with a massive 576,000 sale of CD’s and music downloads.
Another [...]

December 19, 2008

Dark Knight to be best selling DVD

Batman has been around for decades and has been played by many great and not so great actors, but it is not the favourite Batman that we are talking about at the moment, it is the imminent rise of the Dark Knight in DVD charts.
The film is set to become the week’s top seller, but [...]

December 16, 2008

Otters roaming the streets

There was a time when the only animals found on the streets of cities and towns were cats, dogs and rodents, but these days the easy access to waste food and other delights is attracting animals that would normally be expected to be seen in the country.
One surprising visitor to the streets is the otter, [...]

December 12, 2008

Tea makes a comeback in the States

There was time when mentioning tea would have caused a riot in the US, but thankfully, those days are long past us, in fact, the humble cup of tea is actually making a breakthrough in the most diehard regions of America.
For instance in San Francisco no matter where you there are coffee shops, they spring [...]

December 10, 2008

UK withdraws warship from Falklands

It could be a bad sign for the people of the Falkland Islands because for the first time since the conflict the warship, pirates are withdrawing which protects the region, to patrol the waters off Somalia because of the increased attacks.
HMS Northumberland was only dispatched to the islands earlier this month, but because of the [...]

December 8, 2008

Oprah still entertainments most powerful woman

In the states, they have what is known as the “Power 100 List” these are movers and shakers within the entertainment industry and surprisingly the person at the top of the woman’s list is Oprah Winfrey.
No matter what anyone thinks of her, she has been around or rather her show has been around for some [...]

December 4, 2008

Windows live gets social networking makeover

Windows Live initially seemed to be interesting but not spectacular, but it soon became apparent that it had not quite reached its fullest potential, but now they have made some additional changes, which has appeared to liven it up a bit.
The whole idea is that people have their own space like a blog, but all [...]

December 3, 2008

Will the mammoth return?

It may sound like the storyline of a film and in fact, this scenario has been the basis to many books, TV programmes and films, but could this be the age where scientists begin to repopulate the world with species that have been extinct.
However, when the frozen remains of a mammoth were found in Siberia [...]

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