Friday, December 24, 2010

Official NORAD Santa Tracker

Official NORAD Santa Tracker:
"Welcome to NORAD Tracks Santa"

Happy Holidays

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Did You Know That Antibacterial Soap Pose A Danger ?

"The National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) says in a lawsuit that that so-called “antibacterial” soaps contain toxic chemicals that put consumers at risk, and that the Food and Drug Administration has failed to move forward on a decades-old proposal to regulate them."

Sunday, November 28, 2010

WikiLeaks Defies U.S. Demands on Leaked Cables - CBS News

WikiLeaks Defies U.S. Demands on Leaked Cables - CBS News:
"The online website WikiLeaks said Sunday it will release of hundreds of thousands of classified State Department documents in defiance of U.S. demands not to publish the files.

The WikiLeaks website appeared to be inaccessible, and WikiLeaks said in its Twitter feed that it was experiencing a denial of service attack."

Banksy's Exit Through The Gift Shop

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Hipmunk: Better Flight Search

Hipmunk: Better Flight Search


"At Hipmunk, we make your experience a lot better. We're building better interfaces for searching, browsing, and filtering your flight search results."







Found on: TechCrunch

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Another Egg Recall

Recalls, Market Withdrawals, & Safety Alerts > Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. Conducts Voluntary Egg Recall:
"Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. (NASDAQ: CALM) today was notified by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) that one of the Company’s suppliers, Ohio Fresh Eggs, LLC, Croton, Ohio, had a routine environmental study sample which tested positive for Salmonella Enteritidis (SE). Cal-Maine purchased approximately 24,000 dozen unprocessed eggs from Ohio Fresh which were processed and re-packaged by the Company’s Green Forest, Arkansas, facility between October 9 and 12, 2010, yet the Company was only notified today. The eggs involved, which were not produced from Cal-Maine flocks, were distributed to food wholesalers and retailers in Arkansas, California, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas. There have been no confirmed SE illnesses related to the purchased eggs.

In cooperation with the FDA, Cal-Maine immediately notified its customers and recalled specific Julian dates of shell eggs because they have the potential to be contaminated with SE. The following packages were included in this recall."

Symptoms of salmonella food poisoning include fever, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, and/or abdominal pain.

Friday, November 5, 2010

Las Vegas tunnel people

Night Panorama of the Las Vegas Strip, featuri...Image via Wikipedia
Las Vegas tunnel people: How 1,000 people live under shimmering strip | Mail Online:
"The tunnel people of Las Vegas: How 1,000 live in flooded labyrinth under Sin City's shimmering strip"

"Deep beneath Vegas’s glittering lights lies a sinister labyrinth inhabited by poisonous spiders and a man nicknamed The Troll who wields an iron bar.
But astonishingly, the 200 miles of flood are also home to 1,000 people who eke out a living in the strip’s dark underbelly."

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Friday, October 1, 2010

The Fisher-Price Recall: More than 10 Million Products | OnSafety


"Fourteen models of the Fisher-Price Trikes and Tough Trikes toddler tricycles can cause serious injury, including genital bleeding when a child sits, strikes or falls on a pretend plastic ignition key. CPSC and Fisher-Price know of 10 injuries, including six girls between the ages of 2 and 3 who needed medical attention after falling against the pretend key that is sticking up in front of the toddler tricycle seat. "

Deaths prompt CPSC, FDA warning on infant sleep positioners:
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today warned consumers to stop using infant sleep positioners. Over the past 13 years, CPSC and the FDA have received 12 reports of infants between the ages of 1 month and 4 four months who died when they suffocated in sleep positioners or became trapped and suffocated between a sleep positioner and the side of a crib or bassinet.
Most of the infants suffocated after rolling from a side to stomach position. In addition to the reported deaths, CPSC has received dozens of reports of infants who were placed on their backs or sides in sleep positioners, only to be found later in potentially hazardous positions within or next to the sleep positioners.
“The deaths and dangerous situations resulting from the use of infant sleep positioners are a serious concern to CPSC,” said CPSC Chairman Inez Tenenbaum. “We urge parents and caregivers to take our warning seriously and stop using these sleep positioners, so that children can have a safer sleep.”




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