Archive for March 8th, 2008
Australian IT: Australia’s third-largest internet service provider has announced plans to boost its focus on the “neglected” small business and home office sectors, unveiling a new voice over internet protocol (VoIP) service to diversify from its traditional retail base. Perth-based iiNet, which last week posted a 34.6 per cent rise in profit to $9.61 million, [...]
Magnificent Secretions Perfume?
Magnificent Secretions is a new perfume most of us are going to want to pass on. Designed by Antoine Lie the new perfume comes in four distinct scents: Saliva, Sperm, Sweat, and Sant (French for blood). If running into a whiff of old lady perfume wasn’t enough to make you gag before, imagine bumping into [...]
From MSNBC.com SEATTLE – The Seattle Biomedical Research Institute will pay volunteers as much as $4,000 to be bitten by mosquitoes infected with malaria. Scientists say no lives are in danger because the volunteers can be cured. The institute is testing which vaccines work fastest. The head of the program, Dr. Patrick Duffy, said volunteers [...]
A Restaurant for Anorexic People?
ABCNews: In the heart of Berlin’s trendy Tiergarten district, where cozy cafés and sprawling “biergartens” nestle alongside elegant eateries, there’s a place for people who dread the very thought of eating. But it’s a space that offers the very thing anorexics avoid — food. Called Sehnsucht — German for “longing” — the brand-new restaurant is [...]
ReportonBusiness: A 2007 report from Statscan found that, while the number of teleworkers grew from one million in 1995 to 1.4 million in 2000, the figure then dipped to 1.3 million in 2005. The report cites a few reasons for that decline, ranging from worker fears of out-of-sight, out-of-mind career derailment to employer concerns about [...]
