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Archive for July, 2004

Free Meal Promotion For Relatives of Genghis Khan

Thursday, July 15th, 2004

It is estimated that 17 million people worldwide, including the British Royal Family, Iranian Royalty, and the family of Dracula, are direct descendents of Genghis Khan.

A London restaurant chain is offering customers free DNA testing to see if they’re descended from Genghis Khan.

Restaurant Shish has promised free meals for any found to be related [...]

Novel to come out in SMSs

Thursday, July 15th, 2004

A Chinese author is bringing out a novel that will only be available as a sequence of text messages.

BBC Online, quoting China’s official Xinhau news agency, says Qian Fuchang has reduced his novel Outside the Fortress Besieged into 60 chapters of 70 characters each.

And pundits insists the novel, described as a steamy tale of adulterous [...]

A Letter from the Hunger Strikers’ Tent

Monday, July 12th, 2004

Protesting Israel’s Apartheid Wall
By TOUFIC HADDAD writing from day 5 of the solidarity tent in Ar Ram where at least 17 people have joined in on the hunger strike protesting Israel’s apartheid wall. Despite the heat wave (36 centigrade) there is a good atmosphere in the tent, and the hunger strikers - though visibly more [...]

Blue Moon

Friday, July 9th, 2004

The month of July 2004 has two full moons, which means one of them is a Blue Moon. But will it really be blue? Believe it or not, scientists say blue-colored moons are real.

When you hear someone say “Once in a Blue Moon…” you know what they mean: Rare. Seldom. Maybe even absurd. After all, [...]

US media and Israeli “Gaza pullout” charade

Wednesday, July 7th, 2004

A Palestinian youth, bearing signs of physical violence, is seen in an undated picture which was shown in a Jerusalem court by the Israel Justice Ministry, June 1, 2004 at the start of a trial against three Israeli border policemen. The policemen were arrested this week for allegedly abusing two 17-year old Palestinians about a [...]

Computerising The Body

Tuesday, July 6th, 2004

Microsoft wins patent to exploit network potential of skin. Fact or fiction - carrying a keyboard on your arm.

Call it the ultimate wireless network. From the ends of your fingers to the tips of your toes, the human body is a moving, throbbing collection of tubes and tunnels, filled with salty water and all capable [...]

Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11. Blind, Or A Coward?

Sunday, July 4th, 2004

One of the first things I did when I got back from vacation was to go see Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11. It’s a brilliant piece of propaganda, entertaining and funny, and it skewers the president deliciously. But am I the only one to notice that in one critically important way, it entirely misses the boat [...]

WTC Official Start of Construction

Saturday, July 3rd, 2004

STAR-SPANGLED START FOR WTC.

Nearly three years after the Twin Towers fell, a 20-ton block of granite will be set in place tomorrow to mark the official start of construction on the 1,776-foot tower that will rise on the site of the World Trade Center.
The cornerstone-laying is “an incredible step for the rebuilding of Ground [...]

Flavored Bananas

Thursday, July 1st, 2004

Chiquita plans costlier, tastier bananas.

It seems that every time I pick up some sort of fruit juice these days it’s one of these funky “mixes”: banana-apple-kiwi or pineapple-cranberry-rambutan or whatever. I’m not exactly sure what the excitement is about mixing fruits, but apparently it’s leaving the drink space and moving into the actual fruit. It’s [...]