green bin
Yar, it be time for some links, matey. And rum. Don’t forget the rum.
Toronto
- The economic crisis may put recycling plants out of business. Goodbye green bins.
Canada
- No more flavoured cigarillos for us. I guess that’s bad in the abstract.
World
- A Wal-Mart employee was trampled and killed by a crazed mob of Black Friday shoppers. Way to go, America.
- “An eye-for-an-eye” justice is alive and well in Iran. Literally.
- Fighting continues in Mumbai, the Bangkok airport is still closed, and Somali pirates just seized a chemical tanker. Terrific.
- Greenland is now independent from Denmark. The Danes seem oddly non-plussed to lose a giant, frozen hunk of…oh, right.
- The world’s first credit crunch. It’s 88BC, and someone’s foreclosing on your romanesque villa.
- The Australian army accidentally tear-gassed two schools.
Pop Culture
- New York’s Thanksgiving Parade gets rickrolled. He’s a good sport, isn’t he?
- Are you fierce individualist? You might just like beer.
- The world’s oldest person has relinquished her title.
- Studies reveal women will be sympathetic to a sick man for about five minutes. That long?
- Scientists have calculated the fastest possible time for a human to run the 100m: 9.48 seconds.
November 28th, 2008 by graeme |
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