Mayoral candidate’s tuba talent on show this week

Now we’re about to enter into showbiz. Gregor Robertson, the NDP MLA running in the three-way race for Vision Vancouver, will be making a special appearance this Friday at the newest hipster hangout in town. Will he be singing? Playing the saxophone, a la Bill Clinton on Arsenio Hall lo these many years? Strumming a [...]

Asian shares head for worst quarter in over 5 years

A shaky start to the week as Asian markets wobble on more bad news from America.

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Asian shares fell on Monday, heading for their worst quarterly performance in over five years, on persistent concerns about the global credit crunch and the impact of weakening U.S. consumer demand on the region’s exports.  [...]

New version of WordPress now out

WordPress 2.5, the culmination of six months of work by the WordPress community, people just like you. The improvements in 2.5 are numerous, and almost entirely a result of your feedback: multi-file uploading, one-click plugin upgrades, built-in galleries, customizable dashboard, salted passwords and cookie encryption, media library, a WYSIWYG that doesn’t mess with your code, [...]

Hawaii Prepares for Volcanic Danger

Big Island Officials Prepare for Kilauea Danger – Levels of toxic sulfur dioxide at the summit are six to ten times greater than before the eruption. “The ten-fold increasee of SO2 at the summit makes the total output for the volcano double basically, and the increased hazard from this emission source is, it’s closer to [...]

Study shows life was tough for ancient Egyptians

Tell el-Amarna was briefly the capital of ancient Egypt during the reign of the pharaoh Akhenaten, who abandoned most of Egypt’s old gods in favor of the Aten sun disk and brought in a new and more expressive style of art.
Akhenaten, who ruled Egypt between 1379 and 1362 BC, built and lived in Tell el-Amarna [...]

Tippetts Sunday test

one big old boat.
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Mike’s new photos from home

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Mike’s new headline

PITTSBURGH – Barack Obama got a surprise boost in the last big state of the long Democratic campaign Friday with an endorsement from Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey Jr., while another Obama supporter sought to nudge Hillary Rodham Clinton out of the race.

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Clinton leads by double-digits in Pennsylvania [...]

Endorse horse race

If the number of endorsements counts for anything when it comes to getting the nod to be Vision Vancouver’s mayoral candidate, Gregor Robertson is well ahead.
Robertson’s camp has emailed so many endorsements to the 12th & Cambie inbox that it’s got the IT staff at headquarters pleading to delete, delete, delete.
The latest endorsement arrived March [...]

Digital media offers triple play opportunity for broadcasters

Canada’s Now Public co-founder and CEO Leonard Brody spoke about the importance of citizen journalism. “What we have noticed is that people do it for social engagement. We get two million readers a month and 700 pieces of content a day. Consumers are moving towards a higher personal locality. One reason [...]