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In a lot of ways, France is one of the most conservative countries in Europe when it comes to protecting their traditional way of life.  After all, they have an entire division of scholars, the Acadamie Francais, dedicated to the preservation of what they call official French from slang language from other countries.  If France […]

The government is at a crossroads.  There’s a record national debt, the deficit is the worst it has been since 1945, and federal employees are feeling the heat.  They have already agreed to a wages freeze, but that might not have been enough.  The federal government of the United States is racing towards a government […]

YouTube and parent company Google have undertaken a little game of “Anything you can do, I can do better!” with competitors like Hulu and Netflix.  While YouTube is still the leader in streaming video online and gets more viewers than television does these days, but they’ve never quite figured out how to make any money with it. […]

When it comes to trends, they usually start at one of the coasts and spread towards the inside of the country.  In the case of the movement to ban Happy Meals from being sold with toys, the movement began in San Francisco, which passed the first Happy Meal ban.  Now, if one councilman has his […]

Mozilla’s making a list, it’s checking it twice (well, weekly), and they’re going to find out not who is naughty or nice, but who is slower than ice thanks to a new initiative dedicated to speeding up the venerable Firefox browser.  Mozilla Firefox is putting together a weekly name-and-shame list of the 40 slowest add-ons […]

Call off the snake charmers and send the mongooses (mongeese?) back to their cages, the emergency is over.  The Bronx Zoo’s missing 20-inch cobra has been recovered.  The cobra, which went missing earlier this week, was discovered and it wasn’t far from home.  The missing Bronx Zoo cobra was recovered inside a non-public area of […]

Auburn won its first national title in 53 years last season, but it wasn’t exactly a squeaky-clean season for the Tigers.  After all, Auburn star Cam Newton was under NCAA investigation for pretty much the whole season, and some like myself believe that the NCAA should have suspended him and voided Auburn’s season due to […]

When you think of Russia’s drink of choice, you think of vodka.  I mean, Russians and vodka go together like Russians and Communism, or Russians and borscht.  And yes, technically, vodka is still the king of Russian spirits, with 263.4 of 275 million cases of booze consumed in Russia being vodka.  However, the interesting fact […]

If you thought Twitter was just a place to meet people, then think again.  These days, Twitter is everything from a one-stop source for breaking news to a customer service outlet, with a dash of humor thrown in.  As more and more people hop on the Twitter bandwagon, from winning celebrities to normal folks like […]

Netflix is growing every day, thanks to lots of partnerships with media groups and content producers, and among those to hitch their wagon back up to Netflix are Showtime Networks, the premium cable channel.  Still, Showtime is removing some of its shows from Netflix, since Netflix is increasingly becoming a competitor to Showtime’s own offerings. […]

People love their sausage in Europe.  However, a savvy consumer in Sweden is a bit too sausage smart, and he or she recently got a prominent sausage-maker in trouble with the government due to some complaints.  Apparently, Trangsviken Chark sausages are just too meaty, and that’s troublesome.  An angry customer wrote the Swedish consumer protection […]

When it comes to pets, most people will spare no expense to be sure their pet has a good life, but one Chinese businessman has done one better and spared no expense in making sure he has a good pet.  An unnamed Chinese businessman from Northern China has opened his pocketbook wide in search of […]