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5 Things to Know About the U.S. Cross Country Ski Championships

Lake Placid, NY - With the 2009 U.S. Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined Championships getting underway today in Lake Placid, there are several topics of interest that add extra spice to this year's...

Sigh - What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Planet Yelnick: Five Things To Know About The Bailout Some types of government intervention work, and some don’t. Purchasing bad assets and turning them over to an asset management corporation...

Permanent Adoption Check-list: Top 10 Things To Know

There’s a wonderful new site, Adopt-a-Pet, which focuses on permanent pet adoption. Victoria Stilwell, host of “It’s Me or the Dog” on Animal Planet is helping out. Purina...

Permanent Adoption Check-list: Top 10 Things To Know

There’s a wonderful new site, Adopt-a-Pet, which focuses on permanent pet adoption. Victoria Stilwell, host of “It’s Me or the Dog” on Animal Planet is helping out. Purina...

How to Capture Your Ideas

Have you ever been slowly drifting off to sleep when you come up with a great idea? It’s such a great idea, in fact, that you just know you’ll remember it in the morning. In the morning, of course,...

Messenger Plus! Live 4.70 released + Skinning Contest

The update of the summer is here! It’s been a while but Messenger Plus! Live is now reliable enough to be left alone without the need of too many updates, nobody likes bloatware. Scripts and skins...

Comic Actor Bernic Mac Dead At 50

Bernie Mac, the raunchy comic who recently earned criticism after an appearance at an Obama rally, has died in a Chicago hospital due to complications caused by pneumonia. He was 50 years old....

Double Bills

The new issue of Sight & Sound has a fun feature on double bills. (Here's the pdf.) A number of writers propose their own, for example:Geoff Andrew -- Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg and Terence Davies' Of...

The Jason Bay file: (More than) 30 things to know about the newest Sox slugger

Who is Jason Bay, besides the Red Sox' new left fielder charged with filling the shoes of a future Hall of Famer? The 29-year-old Bay is a career .281 hitter who gets on base (.375 career OBP) and...

Affordable Advertising for Your Home Business

Affordable Advertising for Your Home Business© Terri Seymour of SeymourProducts.comMarketing and advertising a home business takes a lot of time, commitment and work. Those who say all you need to...