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Eating with chopsticks everyday increases the risk of developing the painful condition osteoarthritis.
Research carried out in Beijing suggests that the repetitive movement of pinching the chopsticks together to pick up food can cause joint problems in the fingers and hand.
More than 2,500 Beijing residents aged 60, who ate using chopsticks, were assessed for signs of [...]

A Linux Distro for Barbie?
Making a bid for a piece of the emerging desktop Linux market, Mattel, Inc. announced the immediate availability of downloadable beta ISOs for BarbieOS 0.99, and said it hoped the final 1.0 retail version would be on store shelves in time for Christmas. The new OS was created by Mattel [...]

As most people reading this know Brian and I have been house hunting for the last couple months. The first place we put an offer on we did not get – and that’s a GOOD thing. After that place fell through we found another place. This place is [...]

International Buy Nothing Day
Fall is in the air. That can mean only one thing for jammers: Buy Nothing Day is approaching. Around the world, preparations have begun. From groups in the UK, America, Brazil and Japan, the emails and inquiries are streaming in. The Adbusters campaign team is busily working to ensure Buy Nothing Day [...]

One night, George W. Bush is tossing restlessly in his White House bed.
He awakens to see George Washington standing by him. Bush asks him, “George, what’s the best thing I can do to help the country?”
“Set an honest and honorable example, just as I did,” Washington advises, then fades away.
The next night, Bush is [...]