It took just 19 minutes but Jodie Arias gave her pitch to save her life to a packed Phoenix courtroom: Sticking to her story that she killed 30-year-old Travis Alexander in self-defense. She told the courtroom. “Before that day, I wouldn’t even want to harm a spider, ” Interesting phraseology as most people use the word… Read more »
This is the New York Taxi of tomorrow which Mayor Bloomberg wants to replace our current cabs with. What do you think? We think the doors are heavy and the real issue with our cabs has nothing to do with the cars but the attitudes of some of the people driving them. A cab without… Read more »
Senate investigators say Apple have wired a complex system to avoid paying billions of dollars from international profits from both the IRS and foreign tax collectors. We say: If this is true – bring the cost of your products down, pay your bills, and redeem yourself with a great I pad giveaway! According to Politico. com. A report which was released ahead… Read more »
A spate of anti-gay attacks in New York City is prompting New York’s finest to increase their presence in some gay-friendly neighborhoods in a run up to Gay Pride Month in June. City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said Monday that the NYPD has pledged to station command vehicles in Greenwich Village, Chelsea and Hell’s Kitchen through the… Read more »
Today our hearts and prayers go out to all those in Oklahoma and if you are anxious to help you can contact The Red Cross and Salvation Army both of whom have started relief efforts. It is a devastating disaster and even for a place hardened by massive tornadoes, no one in Moore, Oklahoma has ever seen this kind of… Read more »
In these days of high unemployment jobs you might not ordinarily consider are being taken more seriously. So here’s one in Svalbard, Norway where your key duty would be looking out for the Polar Bears, while scientists carry out important work. It has become necessary to hire someone to spot the animals as their numbers have… Read more »
This is really quite a difficult story to tell because the facts seem too bizarre but one man is in hospital following a freak fall out of a window at a Broadway Theater. According to The New York Post, the theater-goer survived a plunge out a window above Broadway’s Lyceum Theater on West 45th Street today — landing on… Read more »
Native New Yorker and founder of blogging site Tumblr, 26 Year old David Karp, has just made a lot of money and we mean a lot. In fact Karp has become a Billionaire. Yahoo’s board of directors have just agreed to buy his wildly popular blogging platform, which boasts 100million users and 90million posts per day, for $1.1billion cash…. Read more »
The head of Saudi Arabia’s religious police has declared that Twitter is an appalling waste of time, mind, and soul. O give us a break, you have so many other issues there that Tweeter should not be your major concern. Sheikh Abdul Latif Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh mused that anyone who uses Twitter “has lost this world and… Read more »
A new study from Carnegie Mellon, first reported on yahoo.com, attempts to analyze the impact of juggling email, texts, and social media on your brain while you’re at work. People who were told they might be interrupted but were left alone had a surprising result. Dr. Ezriel Kornel, a neurosurgeon, says it is not surprising… Read more »
