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BEAT-DOWN • by Karl El-Koura

The little robot, a trashcan on wheels, rolled down the street in the late hours of the night. When it found a piece of trash, it squatted over it and sucked it up — reverse-defecation, Patricia’s dad called it. Adrian watched it from across the street, a slight smile on his face. Patricia didn’t like Adrian [...]

Win “Tickets to The Jungle Book”

Requirement: PAssion Card Members (Click HERE To Join)Prizes: 1 winner ‘Tickets to The Jungle Book’Till: 31 Oct 2009Join Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves, and his friends Bagheera – the panther and Baloo – the bear in this magical world where the animals can talk. Mowgli is being taught the ways of the jungle, but [...]

Puppy Palooza Review

Game Review: Puppy Palooza Release: 09/28/2009 Genre: Memory Developer: Rock Ridge Games Available Platforms: iPod Touch and iPhone Players: 1 MSRP: $1.99 ESRB Rating: N/A Website: www.rockridgegames.com Puppy Palooza is a game for the iPod Touch and iPhone developed by Rock Ridge Games. [...]

Alcohol is worse than cigarettes

Last week, Stacey Rhymes from Derby, who died from alcoholic liver disease at 24, appealed from the grave for steps to stop enticing vulnerable young people into addiction, when her mother released harrowing photographs of her daughter’s decline. Hers is the human face of a huge statistical problem – research published yesterday foresees more than [...]

Resisting the Green Merchants of Doom

Bill MuehlenbergWe have plenty of examples of green Chicken Little’s insisting that the sky is falling. The trouble is, when we listen to them, heed their advice, and implement their policies, the solutions are usually much worse than the perceived problems. One classic example of this was the worldwide scare over DDT.This story is of [...]

Sick Puppies…

Or should that be sick poppy? George Bush (#43, not to be confused with the gibbering idiot with misplaced delusions of grandeur that he sired), speaking at Texas A&M last week to celebrate the anniversary of his laughably weak “thousand points of light” initiative, took the opportunity (when not apologizing for his “ ass [...]

Dog Clicker Training

Dog Clicker Training is described by many, who have used it, as the most human method to train a dog In addition to this it has been proven to be very effective training method and it is being used not only for dogs but also for many other species such as cats, whales, bear, lions [...]

‘Scaffolding’ to regenerate lost or damaged bones and tissues, even stop age clock

October 19th, 2009 Posted by Chris Jablonski @ 11:47 pmCategories:Engineering & Innovation, Health & MedicineTags:Body, Bone, Fiber, Network Technology, Networking, Chris JablonskiImplantable organ and tissue “scaffolds” are currently in the spotlight for regenerative medicine, and may allow for the replacement of most body parts that flounder with age within 30-50 years, according to a [...]

Magazine Mondays: Pansotti (or Pansoti)!

It has been a jam-packed couple of weeks for the Cream Puff. Work has been incredibly busy and there’s been lots going on with family and friends between the Thanksgiving holiday and other events. This is going to be a quick Magazine Mondays post but I definitely wanted to take the [...]

Best “Pet Food”

In Florida, local eggs, unpasteurized local milk,  and cheese made from that milk are all verboten for human consumption. Thankfully, the state has much higher regard for its animal companions than it does for its citizens, which means the legal sale of that healthy, nutritious contraband is just a pet food license away. Look for [...]