Today our hearts and prayers go out to all those in Oklahoma and if you are anxious to help you can contact The Red Cross and Salvation Army both of whom have started relief efforts. It is a devastating disaster and even for a place hardened by massive tornadoes, no one in Moore, Oklahoma has ever seen this kind of… Read more »
In these days of high unemployment jobs you might not ordinarily consider are being taken more seriously. So here’s one in Svalbard, Norway where your key duty would be looking out for the Polar Bears, while scientists carry out important work. It has become necessary to hire someone to spot the animals as their numbers have… Read more »
This is really quite a difficult story to tell because the facts seem too bizarre but one man is in hospital following a freak fall out of a window at a Broadway Theater. According to The New York Post, the theater-goer survived a plunge out a window above Broadway’s Lyceum Theater on West 45th Street today — landing on… Read more »
Native New Yorker and founder of blogging site Tumblr, 26 Year old David Karp, has just made a lot of money and we mean a lot. In fact Karp has become a Billionaire. Yahoo’s board of directors have just agreed to buy his wildly popular blogging platform, which boasts 100million users and 90million posts per day, for $1.1billion cash…. Read more »
The head of Saudi Arabia’s religious police has declared that Twitter is an appalling waste of time, mind, and soul. O give us a break, you have so many other issues there that Tweeter should not be your major concern. Sheikh Abdul Latif Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh mused that anyone who uses Twitter “has lost this world and… Read more »
A new study from Carnegie Mellon, first reported on yahoo.com, attempts to analyze the impact of juggling email, texts, and social media on your brain while you’re at work. People who were told they might be interrupted but were left alone had a surprising result. Dr. Ezriel Kornel, a neurosurgeon, says it is not surprising… Read more »
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short third novel, The Great Gatsby, – is shot through with flashes of gorgeous description, satiric wit, and bursts of dialogue that perfectly capture the ennui, emptiness and vulgar excess of the roaring twenties. The story centers on a mysterious con man, Long Island millionaire bootlegger, Jay Gatsby, and his pipe… Read more »
