You go, Margaret!

From Margaret Cho’s blog: Gwen Stefani’s Harajuku girls have been getting lots of lip service lately, and I have to say I am confused.  Now she has 4 things all together, the Harajuku Girls. I want to like them, and I want to think they are great, but I am not sure if I can. [...]

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Live 8 and Kevin Carter

Live 8 concerts will be happening soon throughout the world.  This is what the Live 8 website says: Every single day, 30,000 children die, needlessly, of extreme poverty. On July 6th, we finally have the opportunity to stop that shameful statistic.  8 world leaders, gathered in Scotland for the G8 summit, will be presented with [...]

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Happy Canada Day

Hope everyone had a great Canada Day!  I wonder if is what Renee wore today. From Wikipedia.com: Canada Day (French: F?te du Canada) is Canada‘s national holiday. It is celebrated on July 1. It celebrates the creation of the Dominion of Canada through the British North America Act 1867, which came into effect on July [...]

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When we were kings

Three teams of forensic artists and scientists ? from France, the United States and Egypt ? each built a model of the boy pharaoh?s face based on some 1,700 high-resolution photos from CT scans of King Tutankhamun’s mummy to reveal what he looked like the day he died nearly 3,300 years ago. [bbc.com] I think [...]

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The Secret War in Laos

I was online tonight, looking for some examples of good travel blogs, to get me in the mood of doing my own when I’m in Panama.  I endedup on Vagabonding.com and a travelogue entry concerning Laos caught my eye.  I thought of Glyn and Kiran, who were meeting up again in Thailand for a day [...]

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