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Movember

October 27th, 2010 · No Comments

This Movember I’ve decided to donate my face to raising awareness about prostate cancer. My donation and commitment is the growth of a moustache for the entire month of Movember, which I know will generate conversation, controversy and laughter. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men. One man dies every hour from the [...]

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Life explained by scientific graphs

September 29th, 2010 · No Comments

Here are a series of interesting graphs that explain various aspects of our lives….

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Captain Kangaroo

September 27th, 2010 · No Comments

My mother sent me this piece as we used to watch Captain Kangaroo on tv as children growing up in the US. Captain Kangaroo passed away on January 23, 2004 at age 76 , which is odd, because he always looked to be 76. (DOB: 6/27/27 ) His death reminded me of the following story. [...]

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Tiger cub found in luggage

September 9th, 2010 · No Comments

This is a sedated 2 month old tiger cub found in luggage at Banbkok airport.  A woman was trying to smuggle it out of the country on a flight to Iran….. The full story can be found on the WWF site here. By any stretch of the imagination this is just wrong!

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You are going to have a new business partner

August 21st, 2010 · No Comments

by Porter Stansberry I’d like to make you a business offer. Seriously. This is a real offer. In fact, you really can’t turn me down, as you’ll come to understand in a moment… Here’s the deal. You’re going to start a business or expand the one you’ve got now. It doesn’t really matter what you [...]

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International Space Station

August 18th, 2010 · No Comments

This link shows the development of the International Space Station over time…. Http://i.usatoday.net/tech/graphics/iss_timeline/flash.htm It is amazing to see how it has grown and to think that it is only as big as a 747.

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Regional Major Response Manager at BP

July 9th, 2010 · No Comments

I have just been passed a note to check out this link: www.linkedin.com/in/brentspiller. Why would you put someone with the name Brent Spiller in the role of Major Incident manager at an oil company that sell Brent Crude Oil…… His link has a blog and a lot of detail, there are obviously people out there [...]

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Horse-boy

June 24th, 2010 · No Comments

The BBC reports that there is a.. “Mystery surrounding a man wearing a horse’s head who has been captured on Google’s Street View in Aberdeen.” The man – who has become known as ‘horse-boy’ – can be seen in the Hardgate area of the city. If you go to Google maps and look up 14 [...]

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A fantastic way to fight oil spills

May 31st, 2010 · No Comments

There is a fantastic method for fighting oil pills….

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Bye bye Brown

May 11th, 2010 · No Comments

At last we have got rid of this useless man. Gordon Brown you made a real mess of this country. Don’t come back.

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