Internet Sites Could be Given Movie Like Ratings

In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Andy Burnham says he believes that new standards of decency need to be applied to the web. He is planning to negotiate with Barack Obama’s incoming American administration to draw up new international rules for English language websites.
The Cabinet minister describes the internet as “quite a dangerous place” [...]

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7 Scientific Weight Loss Tactics

Use a Food Diary. Writing down what you eat each day can help you double the amount of weight you lose, reports Kaiser Permanente’s Center for Health Research in Portland, Ore. It increases awareness so you tend to eat fewer calories, researchers say.

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Happy Thanksgiving

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Woman Loses Hands And Feet In “Hospital” Mistake

She was a vibrant young mother who went to a Brooklyn hospital for what she thought was a kidney stone. She wound up leaving without her hands and feet because of what her lawyers call a “medical mistake.”
Now, Tabitha Mullings is suing for $100 million.
The 32-year-old suffered an infection and ended up a quadriplegic with [...]

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Sexiest Woman In The World

It takes a lot of things to be sexy – but apparently a belly button isn’t one of them.
E! entertainment television has just named supermodel Karolina Kurkova the sexiest woman in the world.
In earning the honor, the Czech-born beauty beat out fellow Victoria’s Secret models Giselle Bundchen, Adriana Lima and Heidi Klum, who placed fourth, [...]

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NCAA Tournament Preview

Everything you need to know about the NCAA Tournament. We give you the coaches, lineups and stats for all 64 teams still in the tourney, as well as my predictions for all the games. Plus we list the can’t miss games for the first round and the top potential match ups down the road. Don’t [...]

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The History of St. Patricks Day

St. Patrick was a Christian missionary credited with the conversion of Ireland from paganism. He lived from the late 4th century A.D. to the mid 5th century A.D., so long ago that it’s difficult to separate fact from legend.
St. Patrick was born in either Scotland or Wales, the son of Roman parents living in Britain. [...]

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Blast From The Past: Lucky Charms

The cereal was created in 1963 by a team headed up by the manufacturing vice-president of General Mills, John Holahan. The team was to use the available manufacturing capacity from either of General Mills’ two principal cereal products — Wheaties or Cheerios — and do something unique to them. Lucky Charms were first invented by [...]

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Did You Know? St. Patrick’s Day

The first St. Patrick’s Day parade took place not in Ireland, but in the United States. Boston in 1737.
Legend has it, if you kiss the Blarney Stone, it is believed you will be given the “Gift of the Gab.”
There are 34 million U.S. residents who claim Irish ancestry. This number is almost nine times the [...]

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Irish Joke

Two Irishmen, Patrick Murphy and Shawn O’Brian grew up together and were lifelong friends. But alas, Patrick developed cancer, and was dying. While on his deathbed, Patrick called to his buddy, Shawn, “O’Brian, come ‘ere. I ‘ave a request for ye.” Shawn walked to his friend’s bedside and kneels.
“Shawny ole boy, we’ve been friends all [...]

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Unsolved Mysteries: Leprechauns

Irish fairies fall into two main groups: sociable and solitary. Perhaps the best known of the solitary fairies are the leprechauns. Leprechauns have the distinction of being the most solitary of the solitaries, avoiding contact with humans, other fairies, and even other leprechauns.
Although the leprechaun has been described as Ireland’s national fairy, this name was [...]

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Cartoon Memories: Speed Buggy

Add Hanna-Barbera’s Speed Buggy to the loveable-animated-cars-who-talk list. Employing a Love Bug meets Scooby Doo concept, Speed Buggy featured three wacky teenagers whose means of transportation was a remote-controlled, rust-colored dune buggy named Speed Buggy. Speed Buggy had two eyes for headlights, a mouth for a grill, and a heart of chrome.

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Cartoon Memories: The Smurfs

Proving that we indeed are a one-world community, NBC president Fred Silverman bought the rights to the Flemish created characters known as the Smurfs and turned them into one of the most successful and smurfiest cartoons ever to hit the air. Created by cartoonist Peyo Culliford in 1957, the Smurfs(called Schtroumpfs in their homeland) had [...]

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Blast From The Past: Shrinky Dinks

Gather ye round, gather ye round! Shoulder yourself in amongst the crowd that’s growing around the oven and take a gander through that glass…magic baked goods are transforming before your very eyes! Were not talking about Toll House cookies or souffls either. Were talking Shrinky Dinks. No, you cant eat themtheyre plastic. But you wouldnt [...]

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How Monopoly Saved American Lives

During World War II, the British secret service hatched a master plan to smuggle escape gear to captured Allied soldiers inside Germany. Their secret weapon? Monopoly boxes. The original notion was simple enough: Find a way to sneak useful items into prison camps in an unassuming form. But the idea to use Monopoly came from [...]

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