Many cows, pigs and chickens will soon be living cushier lives. But in the end, they will still be headed for the dinner plate.
Whole Foods Market is preparing to roll out a line of meat that will carry labels saying “animal compassionate,” indicating the animals were raised in a humane manner until they were [...]
LONDON (Reuters) – An American helped
foil a burglary in northern England whilst watching a Beatles-related
webcam over the Internet, police said Friday.
The man from Dallas was using [...]
For the past several years we have included
an extra unit in our Business Classes when we are dealing with Marketing
– Product
Placement. It seems that brand [...]
Only people with top-secret security clearances could read her musings,
which were posted on Intelink, the intelligence community’s classified
intranet. Writing as Covert Communications, CC [...]
PETA activists are cracking the whip on Springfield-based
Merriam-Webster, demanding that the definition of "circus" be rewritten
to label the big top as cruel to "captive" animal performers.
The dictionary currently defines a circus as "an arena [...]
The Dowbrigade is bereft and depressed, listless and out of sorts. We are walking around in a viscous miasma of pain and loss, lashing out at innocent bystanders and loved ones alike, whoever happens to be in the vicinity. Everything seems dark and hopeless. And it’s all Dave Winer’s fault.
You see, for the first time [...]
Yeah, the Dowbrigade is Back. We are happy again.
After the better part of a week battling balky server problems the gnomic genuises in the Berkman
back room have come through again.The server’s up, and all’s right in
[...]
FAIRFIELD, Conn. –Janet Kettman says she and her
neighbors on Sunset Circle are always looking over their shoulders in
fear the stalker will strike again.
"He attacks from the back," Kettman said Monday. "You never
[...]
It may sound like science fiction, but the prospect
that suicide bombers and hijackers could be made redundant by flying
robots is a real one, according to experts.
The technology for remote-controlled light aircraft is now [...]
American troops have complained that a new armoured
body suit designed to be worn in Iraq makes them look "goofy".
The water-cooled "alien spacesuits" are being handed out to turret
gunners in their notoriously vulnerable Humvee vehicles.The new [...]
Think the people who while away their hours reading and
commenting on political blogs are slovenly twenty-somethings with nothing
better to do?
Think again, said a survey last week by Blogads, a company that many leading
[...]