To most of London, the Dolphins-Giants game on Sunday, while a sellout at Wembley Stadium, is an obscure oddity. ”The one with the funny-shaped ball? It’s not proper football is it,” says the gentleman guiding our small taxi. You mention Sunday’s big football game around here and Londoners assume you mean Arsenal vs. Liverpool.
Archive for Oktober, 2007
FIFA Ends World Cup Rotation
The World Cup will no longer be rotated among continents, a decision made Monday.
What’s English for football?
To most of London, the Dolphins-Giants game on Sunday, while a sellout at Wembley Stadium, is an obscure oddity. ”The one with the funny-shaped ball? It’s not proper football is it,” says the gentleman guiding our small taxi. You mention Sunday’s big football game around here and Londoners assume you mean Arsenal vs. Liverpool.
Why Men and Women Argue Differently
Women want to talk about it, but men are more likely to retreat into stoney silence.
Why French Women Don’t Get Fat
Only 11 percent of the French population qualifies as obese, while we almost triple that percentage mark here in the land of plenty. Furthermore, the French eat three times as much saturated animal fat as Americans do and only a third as many die of heart attacks.
Indonesia: "Want Us to Save Our Forests? Pay Us."
The Indonesian government is recruiting other developing nations in an attempt to pressure richer governments to provide incentives for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Some see the government’s request for money as a type of environmental hostage taking, and many feel that Indonesia’s request smacks of hypocrisy in light of its own poor record.
Why French Women Don’t Get Fat
Only 11 percent of the French population qualifies as obese, while we almost triple that percentage mark here in the land of plenty. Furthermore, the French eat three times as much saturated animal fat as Americans do and only a third as many die of heart attacks.
The ONLY Black iPhone in the World!
Dutch hacker Mark Hoekstra (of Slurpr & iNoPhone fame) takes a cracked iPhone and painstakingly reassembles it into a Black iPhone with a full color (old Apple Newton) Apple logo. The only one of its kind, a work of art! I want one too!
Steve Jobs keen on a world where people share WiFi
Apple chief executive Steve Jobs is reportedly “very interested” in a world where people share their WiFi connections in return for free access to other wireless hotspots in their communities, and recently met with the founder of upstart provider FON, whose business aims might just dovetail with the iPhone maker.
Top 10 Consumer Frauds – Consumerist
An estimated 30.2 million Americans were victims of fraud last year, which is about 13.5% of the adult population, according to the just released results of the 2005 FTC Consumer Fraud Survey. (Yes, it takes them two years to get the results out the door).
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