Big Apple Comic-Con: Fanboys, Sci-Fi Geeks Attending Comic Book Convention This Weekend In New York

NEW YORK — A three-day love-in devoted to pop culture opened Friday with William Shatner unveiling his new comic book and fans geeking out on the latest video games, toys and electronics. It was all fantasy and fun at the Big Apple Comic-Con, which runs through Sunday with appearances by sci-fi and [...]

healthGAMERS Part Two: Interview With Melanie Lazarus, MPH

June 30, 2009 Today in my Twitter feed (yes, I finally joined, see sidebar badge!) I immediately benefited from the ‘following’ phenom to shortcut my research time when a new friend/follower in Australia, Tania Andrusiak, pointed to today’s Scientific American [...]

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – June 29, 2009

TODAY : Russia and NATO hold first military talks since Georgia incursion; differences remain; OSCE skeptical about security proposals; issues emerge for imminent Obama visit; the Romanovs return NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer has said that Russia and NATO have resumed cooperation on broad security threats , but [...]

Neighbourhood only

Source: Wikipedia Aaaaaugggggh. Pre warning, this post will have a ton of medical jargon and other things in it. I’m tired and dont want to explain it all, btu I felt like writing it anyway, so sorry! So last night was my fourth 12 hour shift in a row. I like to [...]

Nigel Adkins – Adkins diet just the tonic for united Scunny

Source: Flickr Back with the fourth installment of his series on exciting young English managers in the Football League, Hugo Steckelmacher looks at Scunthorpe United’s Nigel Adkins, a man hard to pigeon-hole. Come back next week for Paul Ince! Who needs Mourinho, we’ve got our physio – Scunthorpe fans’ regular chant, home and [...]

Debt Junkies Forced to Go Cold Turkey (pfblogs.org)

Source: ShutterstockCompanies that depend on cheap credit to keep going are like hard-core heroin addicts, living each day from fix to fix. Once the drug — or the borrowed money — runs out, many either go through painful withdrawal or they… …
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