Features Articles, Reviews, and News for old school and newbie anime fans
| Top 10 green days out |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 8:28 am |
| Tags: Ethical Living, Environment, Travel And Transport, Travel |
| Bibi van der Zee offers some ideas for entertaining and inspiring day trips with a conscience |
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| In Brief: Today in Bratz news: Producer Avi Arad tells ... |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 2:20 pm |
| Tags: Bratz, Living Dolls |
| Today in Bratz news: Producer Avi Arad tells MTV the Bratz are "X-Men for girls -- it's just that their superpowers are singing, fashion, soccer and cheerleading." He left out "getting their periods... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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| Women with metastatic breast cancer are living longer |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 6:30 am |
| Tags: Advanced, Breast, Cancer, Disease, Drugs, Living, Longer, Metastasis, Metastatic, Mets, New, Therapies |
| difference and patients are living longer with the disease. Researchers in Canada conducted a study evaluating 2,000 women diagnosed with advanced breast cancer. The time periods in the study were broken up into four groups dating from 1991 until 2001. The researchers concluded that one year survival improved from 55 percent to 71 percent and |
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| Spectators and mayhem at the TdF [Dr. Joan Bushwell's Chimpanzee Refuge] |
| Published: July 28, 2007, 10:00 am |
| Tags: Better Living Through Chemistry |
| It's great that the Tour de France is enormously popular in Europe and attracts about 7.8 gazillion spectators to the route's roadsides. The only problem is that they are notoriously bad about keeping out of the way, with the unavoidable consequence that they can and indeed do have an impact on the outcome of the race itself. The eventual winner |
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| Featured links for June 29th through July 1st |
| Published: July 2, 2007, 11:01 am |
| Tags: Daily Links, 43folders, Always On, Apple, Applestore, Clutter, Davidallen, Del Icio Us, Electronics, Emotions, Ethankaplan, Getting Things Done, Gizmodo, Home, Houses, Howtos, Iphone, Johngruber, Links, Living, Macbreakweekly, Meditation, Mindfulness, Sanfrancisco, Scottbourne |
| into a specialist in compact living - You have to be creative when your home is 250 sq ft. How to Get Rid of Things - “Welcome to GetRidofThings.com, a do-it-yourself guide dedicated to helping you prevent, eliminate or remove common annoyances from your life.” Microtrends: Getting Things Done - Times Online - “David Allen |
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| Reading the News, Thinking about Charlie |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 5:59 am |
| Tags: Toys, Food And Diet, Charlisms, Living Arrangements, Health, Neuroscience, Animal Rights, Animals, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Children, Dora The Explorer, Education, Elmo, Family, House, New York Times, News, Newspaper, Obesity, Octagon, Parenting, Pdd Nos |
| Once upon a time, when I sat down to read the newspaper, I just read it: Front page, arts, book reviews, world news, skip the sports. Now I sit down in front of my laptop to read, and get up mid-story if I hear Charlie calling—-and, inevitably, much of what I read is through the lens of Charlie, and of autism. For example: Eating |
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| Soaring dollar, but things aren't changing? |
| Published: July 25, 2007, 11:48 am |
| Tags: Living In Melbourne |
| Colin:The Age brought it up, with regards to technology related items - soaring dollar, yet things are really expensive. Read more at Retailers fail to pass on exchange rate bonus. Don't go that far - go to your local newsagent, and pick up a foreign magazine, say from the US. If it costs USD4.95, it somehow still costs us about $13 to read the |
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| Coles Plague hits the Inner East |
| Published: July 24, 2007, 11:04 pm |
| Tags: Living In Melbourne |
| dissembly:I had a fun little adventure trying to locate cold&flu tablets last night. At about ten o'clock, i drove down to my closest supermarket (a Coles) in search of "day and night" type tablets, preferably with some sort of anti-histamine. They had a whole stack of cold&flu related products - and every single one of them was a herbal remedy. |
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| Cabs! |
| Published: July 16, 2007, 7:28 pm |
| Tags: Living In Melbourne |
| Darren:(...Because I am grumpy that I have just been woken up by one who buzzed me on the intercom in the morning, refused to go away, and insisted that I called for a cab. Did not even bother to bloody apologise later.) At the risk of generalising - I honestly think cabbies in Melbourne are atrocious. Other than today's report on NineMSN |
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| 24-hr of 'niceness' |
| Published: July 16, 2007, 2:15 am |
| Tags: Living In Melbourne |
| Colin:Its been a few weeks while I was jet-setting around bits and bobs of South East Asia, happily signing things on my ANZ-provided credit card (hey, gotta enjoy the Aussie dollar). Alas, the trip ends, and I'm back in Melbourne (glad to be actually - cool weather, lack of haze, and more to the point, nice folk).Had to do a quick grocery shop |
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| Cost Of Living: 'New York Sun' Pretends It Is Also A Player, Raises Price |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 4:25 pm |
| Tags: Cost Of Living, New York Sun |
| Now that the Journal and the Times have jacked up their newsstand price, the Sun wants to get into the action. That's right, New York's other "high-quality broadsheet" is raising their newsstand... |
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| Guide Dogs Victoria |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 7:30 pm |
| Tags: Living In Melbourne |
| squirt:The month of July has been Top Dog month, a fundraising event organised by Guide Dogs Victoria. I have friends with guide dogs and these dogs are wonderful. It takes many years to train one but they enhance the mobility of the vision impaired, improving the quality of life as well as improved independence. Its still not too late to be |
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| PlasmaRiser Reveal and conceal your TV effortlessly |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 5:43 am |
| Tags: Plasmariser, Plasma Tvs, Lcd Screens, Living Rooms, Commercial Applications |
| is creating a muddle in your living room but, you are not able to find a perfect place to conceal it. The PlasmaRiser will do the job for you. The professional enclosure can effortlessly store and move Plasma & LCD Screens in both professional and commercial applications. Highly handy, quick and easy to set up, the PlasmaRiser offers a |
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| 5 Reasons Why to switch to vegetarianism |
| Published: February 15, 2007, 6:21 am |
| Tags: Vegetarian Cooking, Vegetarian Lifestyle, Better Living, Health, Switch To Vegetarianism, Vegetarian |
| and well-being. better living, health, switch to vegetarianism, vegetarian, Vegetarian Cookingbetter living, health, switch to vegetarianism, vegetarian, Vegetarian |
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| Aging Backwards Tuesday Tips #7: Changing with the Times |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 11:20 pm |
| Tags: Living Life To The Fullest, Aging, Tips, Feature |
| absorbed. More than that, living in the present moment, knowing what's going on around you and not obsessing about the past contribute to a sense of youthfulness. Staying in tune with the times may even help people live to 100, according to the results of a poll of 100 people, aged 99 and older, who were questioned about the secrets of |
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