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Ready Wireless Launches Prepaid Unlimited Voice Plans

Iowa-based prepaid wireless reseller Ready Wireless yesterday introduced two new Unlimited Voice Plans , priced at $10 for 3 days or $15 for 7 days. "Many of our customers really want to be able to buy unlimited services, but for many customers it's difficult to commit to an enti...

National Cherry Festival 2009

The National Cherry Festival in Traverse, Michigan is almost here— just one day to go! It's a week packed with cherry events, but for cherry lovers out there, you shouldn't miss the Cherries Grand Buffet ! Cherries Grand Buffet will showcase recipes prepared by the culinary an...

Durbin-Grassley, Indian Outsourcing, and the H-1B Visa

BusinessWeek had a fascinating examination early this month of what may be the biggest problem faced by the H-1B visa: Indian outsourcing. A bill currently before Congress, the Durbin-Grassley visa reform bill, would probably bring an end to the Indian outsourcing model by requiring that U.S. com...

In Search of a Cool Summer: Da Lat, Vietnam

Da Lat is the honeymoon capital of Vietnam. It is a romantic French Provincial town snuggled into the cool hills of Southeast Asia. Detailed day-by-day weather records are not available for Da Lat, but the temperature in the city is consistent throughout the summer months: lows drop into the upp...

Opera Reinvents the Web by Sharing it With Everyone

Opera has been teasing about reinventing the web, and with the release of Opera Unite, they may have just done that. If you were not keeping up with Opera today, they have announce a new service and series of plugins for the Opera 10 browser that allows users to easily share media, photos, documents...

Planes, trains & automobiles & climate change

Much has been said about using public transport to solve climate change. Basically, the argument goes that taking a train or bus produces fewer greenhouse gases than driving. But now a new study, reported here , suggests that not be the case. According to scientists, there are hidden emissions...

In Search of a Cool Summer: Baguio, Philippines

Asia is hot in the summer. At least most of it is. But there are a few spots where the summer traveler can enjoy moderate, perhaps even cool, weather. Chief among those locations is Baguio City, Philippines. Baguio is referred to affectionately as the summer capital of the Philippines. The title...

Tuleste Market Jewelry

Designer Vintage Jewelry Sisters Satu and Celeste Greenberg were born in San Francisco and raised in a rural northern California town, Seiad Valley, CA (population 350), which inspired them to create their own clothing and accessories. They eventually made their way to New York City, where they...

DocStoc & Scribd Start the Document Wars

I haven't paid this much attention until recently, but documents may soon be big business on the web... The two main competitors in the new document wars are DocStoc and Scribd . Both sites are document sharing services that allow you top upload a document for other people to view. They ha...

Oprah Hearts Skype

Oprah dedicated her show today to singing the praises of Skype . "On the show, titled ' Where the Skype Are You? ,' Winfrey conducts video chats - via Skype - with people in weird places," writes the WSJ's Geoffrey A. Fowler . "Those places include a Canadian...

1957 年款 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa

官方新闻稿： MARANELLO, Italy, May 17 /PRNewswire/ - RM Auctions, in association with Sotheby's made history at the Ferrari factory in Maranello today as a 1957 Ferrari 250 TR, chassis no. 0714TR sold for € 9,020,000 at the third-annual Ferrari Leggenda e Passione event to set a new world record...

You Belong With Me [Taylor Swift]

You're on the phone with your girlfriend, she's upset She's going off about something that you said 'Cause she doesn't get your humor like I do I'm in the room, it's a typical Tuesday night I'm listening to the kind of music she doesn't like And she'll n...

Dayton RFID Convergence Center: World’s First Business Incubator for Start Ups

It is being dubbed as world's first business incubator for start ups pertaining to the field of RFID. The Dayton RFID Convergence Center is located at the thirty acre Tech Town Business Park and is scouting for RFID firms who would like to bring over their technology experience. It will...

Stenson Wins; Tiger Falters

Courtesy: bleacherreport.com They have been calling it "the 5th major" for some years, now. Yet, The Players Championship is as far away from becoming golf's fifth major as it was on the day it was conceived. I'm not sure how a golf tournament of stature climbs the final rung...

Packard Stars Among Vintage Cars, Here in My Own Backyard

They cruised into Sidney-by-the-Sea on Saturday, May 09. They were members of vintage car clubs located all over Vancouver Island, plus a few welcome visitors from the nearby State of Washington . With over 200 cars on show, they constituted the largest group to appear in our town and I sincer...

The Top Five West End Theatre Shows

© Andyrob One of the great attractions of London is the West End theatre district. Sure, by day you need to see the Tower and the Bridge and a few palaces and such. But once night falls, you need to be looking for your seat at one of the theatres on London's West End. To see what? At the ...

H1B: Frying pan to fire

There are few things more controversial in the world of IT HR than the H1B foreign-worker visa program. CIOs, as a rule, are fans; the ability to hire from an increasingly large pool of eager and well-educated foreign workers to fill domestic jobs helps ease the pay scale. Industry leaders as illust...

Des voitures à louer rien que pour les femmes!

Femme au volant, mort au tournant? Le service de location des voitures "Lady Town" se moque bien de ce proverbe et propose depuis le début de l'année à Paris une flotte de Mercedes conduites par des femmes ou "Ladies drivers" élégamment habillées de noir et portant un foulard...

Webkinz ExtravaGANZa 2009

Finally starting to see Webkinz ExtravaGANZa 2009 stuff around town. I saw the sign at the local Hallmark, their celebration events start at 1pm on Friday but the bulk are on Saturday. The deal is you get a special $1.00 Webkinz with $15 Purchase - definitely a good deal even if it will be from ...

Elektro-Postautos von Chrysler?

Der kurz vor der Insolvenz stehende US-Automobilhersteller chrysler möchte mit elektrisch angetriebenen Postautos nach dem letzten Strohalm greifen. So scheint es zumindest, denn das US-Ministerium unterstützt dieses Vorhaben wahrscheinlich im Rahmen des Transportation-Electrification-Konjunktur...

Chimento Jewelry

Gold and Diamond Jewelry Twenty-five hundred years ago, the Etruscans, in what is present-day Tuscany, created the most beautiful gold metalwork of the ancient world. Today, Italy remains the leader in the transformation of precious metals into masterpieces of design and craftsmanship. It was i...

Classic Car Collector Buys a Spitfire

So you think the prices asked for classic cars are outrageous, especially during economic hard times? Try buying a vintage aircraft . An airworthy two-seater Supermarine Mk IX Spitfire aircraft was recently sold for $2,527,784 during a Bonhams Collectors Motor Car sale . The buyer was Steven ...

To panic, or not to panic

An article by Bruce Perens just popped up on Slashdot discussing what he is calling a "Cyber-Attack" on April 9 in Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties in Northern California. A slightly less breathless account of the incident can be read in the Mercury News. They go with "phone ou...

Klettern am Tafelberg - Kapstadt

Über Ostern war ich in Südafrika und war auf dem Tafelberg in kapstadt . Der Tafelberg überragt Cap Town wie eine große Mauer. Der Berg ist eines der bekanntesten Wahrzeichen Südafrikas. Es gibt zwei Möglichkeiten um auf den Tafelberg zu kommen. Die eine ist man steigt in die Seilbahn u...

Urlaub: Alternativen zu Thailand

© Peter Macdonald Photo Just gestern hatte ich hier im Reise-Weblog über die erneuten Unruhen in Bangkok berichtet. Und auch, wenn seitens der meisten Reiseveranstalter Entwarnungen gegeben wurden, entscheiden sich zahlreiche Urlauber für Alternativen in der Region. Und die existieren, wie ...

Five Fantastic Golf Locations

© Shaggy Paul It may still be a little cool in your part of Glasgow or Leeds, but much of our half of the world is warming up. And it's providing some marvelous weather for golf . Consider some of these fantastic locations where you could be walking the fairways... The Papillon Ayscha ...

Scotland's Top Golf Courses

© tiarescott As the weather warms up and the flowers start to bloom, the time has come to find your clubs and clean your cleets. So why not contemplate a trip to the cradle of civilization ( golf civilization , at least), Scotland . Consider the possibilities... St. Andrews - While the pr...

Massimo Dutti Press Opening in D-Town

Foto Massiomo Dutti Store via modejournalistin / modepilot Morgen eröffnet auf der Kö der erste Massimo Dutti Store. Von 11:00 bis 14:00 sind dort Presseleute und Möchtegern-Presse-Leute und Blogger, wie ich, anzutreffen. Meine heimliche Liebe, Modejournalistin von Modepilot , werde ic...

Store exclusive releases?

A friend sent me this ad... so does this mean certain animals will be released now only to certain stores? Who remembers the old days of webkinz collecting when pets were hard to find and some Hallmarks had limits on how many you could buy? I remember two years ago when we started playing having ...

AIG witch hunts: the new McCarthyism

Some of the most disturbing reports now coming out of the US tell us that AIG employees are now living in fear. Now we're told employees have been told to avoid sporting the company logo and to travel in pairs at night. Bomb sniffer dogs and body guards are in demand. As the Hartford Cou...

Three of Spain's Cities Getting Electric Car Infrastructure

TreeHugger had a piece last week on development in Spain's move to electric cars. The pretty southern Spanish town of Seville has been chosen along with the capital Madrid and the northern hub Barcelona to implement the Movele pilot electric car infrastructure project proposed by the Spani...

Things to Do in Pattaya, Thailand

Thailand is one of Asia's most popular vacation destinations, and the beach resort town of Pattaya offers a lot to do. AquaTerraSky recently published a list of ten things to do in Pattaya. The city has a crocodile farm, a zoo, a tropical garden, some historical replicas of ancient Thai villa...

Rodney Rayner Jewelry

Designer Gemstone Jewelry British jewelry designer Rodney Rayner has received worldwide fame and praise for his bold and colorful designs. From stylish and chic - to bold and beautiful, the Rodney Rayner collection is always fresh and exciting, always evolving and on the leading edge of fashion a...

Diana Vincent Jewelry

Designer Gemstone Jewelry In 2007, Diana Vincent was named one of the top 100 jewelry designers of the last 30 years. Simple, elegant designs, pure fluidity, and swirling shapes that evoke a sense of continuity, these are the hallmarks of Vincent's work, establishing her as one of the count...

Facebook Comes to Apple i-Gadgets

When it comes to social networking it's tough to go anywhere without hearing about Facebook. Likewise Apple's gadgets seem to be the talk of the town when it comes to connectivity. It's only natural that these two giants collaborate to make mobile networking a part of daily life. ...

Where Do All the Woodies Go? To One Man's Woody Heaven

Everybody loves a "Woodie," especially California auto dealer Nick Alexander . Nick has collected more than 35 examples of the iconic wood-panelled wagons , along with their coupe/convertible cousins. Once a year, he holds an open house, offers space for swapping parts and auto disp...

Thanks to Google Android Store, Apple App Store Doesn't Seem So Bad

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 4827030 There has been quite a bit of grumbling about the Apple iTunes App Store for the Apple iPhone. Many of the approval policies, the lack of any application testing, and the sheer number of fart apps have left a lot to be desired. Well, the Google An...

WagerLog: Track Your Gambling Stats

• WagerLog: Track Your Gambling Stats • The unrecognizable Internet of 1996. • Connected Life Head Marco Boerries to Leave Yahoo • Hulu 成名后的尴尬：与 CBS 等合作伙伴撕破脸皮 • Gmail phishing attack hits on heels of outage • New in Labs: Browser title bar tweaks • Easy-CV.com | my online resume • Flo...

Marching towards the Yorkie!

In a mere few days the month of March will be here and the Yorkie will be the Pet of the Month! Pet of the Month time means picking out names for the new Yorkshire Terrier aka Yorkie arrivals. Remember this is the full size webkinz, not the lil'kinz. If you are stumped for ideas here are som...

Classic Cars Fan Trades Cherry Blossoms for Palm Trees

2009 is only the second year for the Palm Springs Desert Classic but already this concours d'elegance is securing a place among North America's best. Perhaps we shouldn't be surprised for the area is home, part-and-full-time, to some wealthy collectors as well as being a mere two-ho...

Looking for That Great One

Looking for that great handbag is not so easy of a task; however, there is a collection that I think is the first place to look! Hayden-Harnett has a series of bags that are perfect to wear on a night on the town, for the everyday and so much more! I love the style of the bag and the rich leath...

New Town Killers - Movie Debut

Playing a hedge fund banker turned killer, Dougray Scott stars in the 'credit crunch' movie: New Town Killers. It being shown for the first time in Scotland tonight as part of the Glasgow Film Festival's fifth anniversary. Filmed in Edinburgh's streets, according to UK's...

Success story: God's Love We Deliver...

Ganga Stone joined forces with Jane Best and Restaurant Claire in 1986 to help patients with HIV and other serious problems get food delivery service for free. Restaurant Claire prepared meals that Ganga and volunteers delivered to people living with HIV/AIDS in Manhattan. They started delivering ab...

Elizabeth Locke Jewelry

Handcrafted Intaglio Jewelry Elizabeth Locke tirelessly travels the world in pursuit of the uncommon elements that make up her designs: coins from classical Greece and Rome or from forgotten empires; richly colored Venetian glass intaglios - carved figures or designs - made from 17th-century mo...

Watch Out People, the SHO's Back in Town!

There's nothing like a dash of high performance to liven up a bland sedan, which is exactly what Ford knew when it dropped a yamaha -engineered V-6 into the Ford Taurus back in the 80s, aided and abetted by a manual 5-speed box and some critical suspension mods. In doing so it created an i...

President Obama Is A Hit In Republican Dominated Fort Myers

During his election campaign Barack Obama promised to make every effort to unite the country and bring about bi-partisanship in government. Today the President conducted a town hall meeting in heavily Republican Fort Myers, Florida, a town that has been particularly hard hit by the economic crisis....

Del Gatto Jewelry

Italian Fine Jewelry The Del Gatto Antonio Company was founded at the end of the 19th Century in Torre del Greco. It has been in the shell cameo and coral art for five generations. They use the carving technique of the best artists in Torre del Greco, the only town in the world where the secr...

Rural Alaskans Suffer Through Winter; No Help From Sarah Palin

While alaska 's Governor, Sarah Palin, makes the rounds at lavish Conservative and Republican Galas that are being held at some of the world's most exclusive supper clubs, elderly, rural Alaskans are close to starving and freezing to death. Palin has been heavily criticized by fellow Rep...

Mobile Dating Takes Off

An article at TechCrunch today took at look at recent marketing research and decided that mobile dating may quickly become the next big thing . The predictions are a bit optimistic in my opinion, but the suggested growth should make startups like the UK-based Flirtomatic, MeetMoi, PlutoLife and I...

Don Witt Predicts VoIP Surge in 2009

In an article at TMCnet , cyLogistics president Don Witt this week predicts that a struggling economy in 2009 will lead to a surge in VoIP deployments. "The stock market meltdown will increase VoIP growth," Witt writes. "More and more executives will be under the gun to cu...

Armenta Fine Jewelry

Handcrafted Designer Jewelry Emily Armenta is a historian, a romantic, and a skilled jeweler. Her biggest inspiration comes from the Spanish poet , Lorca, and early Spanish and Moorish architecture. In her handcrafted metal work , Armenta uses the old-world Etruscan method of granulation ,...

Giveaway winners!

Sorry it took us so long to get the winners up! We went out of town because Hayley is in year round school and doesn't go back from Xmas break until the end of the month. Congrats to the winners: funkfrogz wins the pet code jtl1995 wins the webkinz cares code Make sure you all have kinzblog...

Leslie Greene Jewelry

Designer Fine Jewelry An entrepreneur with a creative heart and strategic mind for business, Leslie Greene was inspired to design her own line to satisfy every woman's desire for fine jewelry that flaunts chic style , luxurious quality and a timeless, classic appeal. Leslie has been de...

New Year's Eve Date Ideas

// Happy New Year's Eve ! What are your plans? (Don't you hate it when people ask you that? ) New Year's has a lot of expectations, especially for singles. If you're single and stay home alone, you might feel isolated from the rest of the partying going on thr...

New era of regulation

The new world order with regulation is now emerging. Gone are the days when the so-called "free market" was the only game in town. We are now seeing a reappraisal of the "free markets" notion. Governments and investors are starting to realise that this does not mean total de...

Model Pickup Trucks and Pickup Ladies Modelling

Frankly, back in 1948 I didn't know what the word "pickup" meant. I was so naive at the age of 17 that I understood little or nothing of pickup trucks and had no idea what those ladies on the corners of Toronto's Jarvis Street were selling. Eventually I got to drive a borrow...

China's BYD Auto Puts a Plug-in Hybrid on the Market There

While automakers in the US and Japan worry about how to cope with the global recession, one China car maker has made the great leap forward into the world of plug-in hybrids. According to Business Week , BYD Auto (a SHENZHEN -based company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange ) "got a ...

Why We Should Love the All-American Car

...he years of the traveling salesman who carried samples and deliverable goods as he drove from town-to-town in his allotted territory. The trunk was mostly needed for the salesman's personal luggag...

How To Get A Great Golf Deal

It's time to play with currencies! This winter is going to provide some of the best golf travel deals in many a year, if not decades, particularly if you're an American golfer. As deflation continues to tear through the global economy, prices continue to drop. The longer you wait, the ...

The Madoff debacle: how did people get sucked in?

The tales of woe and the list of Bernard Madoff's victims continue to grow. Associated Press reports that the list includes former Philadelphia Eagles owner Norman Braman, New York Mets owner Fred Wilpon and J. Ezra Merkin, the chairman of GMAC Financial Services, the Robert I. Lappin Ch...

Nina Nguyen Jewelry

Handcrafted Gold & Gemstone Collections Nina Nguyen Jewelry defines style with intricate, colorful, artistic creations. Each piece is carefully designed by Nina in her studio in Naples , FL. As a young designer breaking into this competitive industry, Nina's multicultural experiences...

Cleaning Up Amsterdam...

If you're planning a trip to Amsterdam in the near future for some partying and general debauchery, you should know that the Dutch government has decided to clean the city up. The Associated Press is among news sources reporting that the brothels, sex shops, and marijuana cafe's in the cen...

Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands

After seeing seven or eight inches of snow spread out over the week, my front yard looks nothing like a tropical beach. I'd rather be on a beach. And if I had a choice, it would probably be a beach in the Virgin Islands. The southern side of Virgin Gorda is lined with scenic grottoes formed b...

Jackson Wyoming - in February

Concierge.com has an interesting tip on finding luxury on a budget. Consider Jackson, Wyoming in February. You'd think it would cost money. But according to Concierge.com, the ski resorts in the nearby mountain may be full, but the in-town hotels that cater to summer tourists are running spe...

All About the Boot

The holidays are upon us. While I love this time of year because it's all festive and cheerful, I'm not crazy about the shopping (and I do a lot of shopping online, so I have no excuses). Anyway, if you're going to brave the crowds in a couple of days, you need comfortable shoes or boots...

Get an Early Start With Car Fan's Christmas Gifts

So today I'm strolling down Sidney's main street and I spot my friend Chris who, when not adding performance upgrades to his 2007 Mustang, tends to the gardens that are a feature of our seaside town. Except that now he's hoisting himself on a mini cherry picker to attach Christmas...

Auto Camping in a Ford Model T

Long before there was a motel in every town folks who traveled by car had to make do with whatever comforts they could carry in the primitive automobiles of the day. Normally that meant sleeping on the ground with, at best, protection from a canvas cover attached to the side of the vehicle. A few...

Engaging Men in Prostate Cancer conversation: ESPN Zone and Stand up to Cancer event

College basketball's top analyst Dick Vitale and award-winning sports columnist Michael Wilbon have teamed up with The V Foundation®, ESPN and Stand Up To CancerTM in an effort to create a national conversation about the ignored reality of prostate cancer and to help men understand the ways ...

Trump Triumphant After All

Windblow lochs, er, locks. Courtesy: PA Well, well. Who says money and politicians don't sleep together? It is certainly no surprise that Donald Trump has won approval for his enormous and enormously extravagant golf venture in northeastern Scotland. I've been posting on the Trump saga ...

Online Casino Traffic Jumps in Quarter four

It's not news to the online casinos but always surprises readers and gamblers when they learn that September to December is online casinos busiest months. Everything adds up as to why these months are jam-packed with gambling enthusiasts. With summer winding down, college and university kids bac...