Interesting Interestings, 2008-04-21

  • Earlier today, we got an e-mail from Mike, the guy who runs TheOneRing, and I assume he was all excited because he thought he was about to get some big-ass HOBBIT news to run. He said as much in this e-mail he sent out:
  • 130 Ninjas sent in a review of the forthcoming GET SMART movie (how many Ninjas does it take to type a review?)

    Food Market

  • — Many parts of America, long considered the breadbasket of the world, are now confronting a once unthinkable phenomenon: food rationing.
  • Pakistani government in the country’s northwest is set to free a top militant leader shortly after over six years in detention in a reconciliation process with the militants, a government spokesman said Monday.
  • Hillary Clinton quit?
    You’d have a better chance getting Bill Clinton to shut up.
    But the argument for Clinton to pull the plug on her campaign is not hard to make.
  • A Georgian unmanned reconnaissance plane downed at the weekend was shot down by a Russian air force jet, Georgia’s air force said on Monday, citing video footage of the incident.
  • The Bank of England, aiming to deal with the crippling impact of the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis, on Monday announced a $100 billion plan to allow banks to swap mortgage-backed securities for British Treasury bills.
  • Los Angeles is at the leading edge of a U.S. demographic trend, with half of its workforce immigrants, many of them unskilled and speaking little English.
  • South Carolina sheriffs back a plan to build three regional prisons in the state to hold illegal immigrants as they await deportation.
  • Saudi women are being kept in perpetual childhood so male relatives can exercise “guardianship” over them, the Human Rights Watch group has said.
  • A group of students at Stanford University in the heart of Silicon Valley have turned their attention towards a unique course that blends popular culture with the more time-worn principles of psychology.
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