The Palm – Paradise Lost?

The superb marketing machine for Palm Jumeirah, the man-made luxury island in Dubai, described it as the Eight Wonder of the World, and it is indeed a tremendous feat of engineering. However all may not be so well in this paradise which has been built by tens of thousands of low paid, migrant workers. [...]

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BusinessOver30.com Website Launched

BusinessOver30.com has been launched and it is a magazine style web site where you’ll find all the best and most current business articles and content, including Business, Finance, Technology, Politics, Economics, and Innovation.
This blog (LifeOver30.com) compliments BusinessOver30.com by providing regular posts on Arts, Photography, Environment, Science, Lifestyle, Media and Health.
From time to time some posts [...]

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New Independent Digital Filmmaking Site

Filmaka.com is a new site for aspiring filmmakers all over the world. You
can submit your high quality 3-minute short, have it evaluated, enter competitions
to win funding to help make a feature film, a documentary or a TV comedy series.
Its the brainchild of Deepak Nayar, who was behind such films as “Buena Vista Social Club” and [...]

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Tummy-Tuck Tales for Toddlers

It could only happen in LA…
A plastic surgeon, has sensed the pain that intending cosmetic surgery patients were experiencing when trying to explain to their young children, that mommy was getting her nose reshaped and her sagging stomach, tucked, to become a trimmer, leaner mommy!! He’s come up with a kids picture story book [...]

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San Francisco’s Greenest House

When you think of green homes, it brings up an image of a hi-tech house in a rural area, with solar panels soaking up the sun’s free energy and a few wind turbines out the back to collect and convert more free energy. But now Robin Wilson has created a zero net energy home right [...]

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Asus Eee PC 900 – The updated ultra-portable Internet Appliance has arrived

When Asus launched the Asus EEE PC 701 last year, it started a revolution: the Internet Appliance. Finally there was a very cheap, extremely light (less than 1Kg) and small laptop with great connectivity, solid state memory (no hard drive) and a very simple user interface, so simple in fact that [...]

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Babylon exhibition in Paris, Berlin and London

An exhibition on the history and art of Babylon is currently in Paris and will be moving to Berlin and later to London. Archaeologists show that Babylon was a city of innovation, contrary to the reformation Christians description as place dedicated to orgies and feasting. Babylon produced many developments in medicine, astronomy and mathematics and [...]

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Warren Buffett’s thoughts as the US economy is in decline

What should investors do? Several times a year, Warren Buffett invites a group of business students to an intensive day of lectures covering, among other things, the state of the economy and the credit crisis. “Don’t buy the wrong stocks and don’t buy or sell them at the wrong time” and “get [...]

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“Pay what its worth” Restaurant

Radiohead tried this “Pay what its worth” approach for their last online album, with mixed results. Now a restaurant (called Penn Central) in Branksome, UK is trying the same thing. Surprisingly, people are paying a fair price, so far, but how long will it last? Its certainly a novel marketing approach, after all, ask anyone [...]

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43% US Income Tax Dollars goes on Military Spending…

According to the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) a peace lobby group in Washington, the break down for US federal income tax spending for 2007 was as follows:
43% Military Spending
20% Health Care
12% Poverty, housing and income support
11% National Debt interest
7% Government operations police, courts, etc.
3% Education and Jobs
3% Science and the environment
1% Diplomacy
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