Author: Fiona Bayrock (on JOMB) Illustrator: Carolyn Conahan (on JOMB) Published: 2009 Charlesbridge (on JOMB) ISBN: 1570916705 Chapters.ca Amazon.com Quick! What’s used for communication, transportation, self defence, sound-dampening, warmth, entertainment and hatching and doesn’t cost ...

Image via CrunchBase The UK / EU web is buzzing with the news that Youtube (Google) has started to block or remove UK music videos because they have not been able to strike a new music licensing deal with the PRS-For-Music, the UK rights society which represents the songwriters and the publishers. I...

Lovely WashPost column by John Kelly. The last two journalists in America sat at a card table in the middle of their empty newsroom. They faced each other, about to flip a coin. The coin was to decide which one would be the second-to-last journalist in America and which one would be the last journal...

Former Thatcher adviser John O'Sullivan sees possible euro-collapse as the "commentariat" in Europe: Every day brings news of fresh disasters, but the main current anxieties are (1) that Austrian banks that have loaned too much to Eastern Europe will collapse when Hungary and others de...

Image via CrunchBase Read: E-Commerce News: E-Commerce: Amazon: Only Copyright Holders Can Unzip Kindle's Lips.This is an interesting debate that once again shows that many rights holders will need some serious hand-holding when it's about understanding new technological implementations. I t...

To nobody’s surprise except its own, ITV is in deep, deep trouble. Paul Graham has been musing about how broadcast TV lost the war. “About twenty years ago”, he writes, “people noticed computers and TV were on a collision course and started to speculate about what they’...

Shell will attempt to lay the offshore pipe this Spring and preparation work both on land and at sea is due to start in the next few weeks. We are determined to stop this preparation work and so people are needed from mid-March - May. We expect Shell to begin putting up security fences and building ...

Shell will attempt to lay the offshore pipe this Spring and preparation work both on land and at sea is due to start in the next few weeks. We are determined to stop this preparation work and so people are needed from mid-March - May. We expect Shell to begin putting up security fences and building ...

Our favorite music critic Andy Whitman reviews U2’s new album NO LINE ON THE HORIZON http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2009/februaryweb-only/108-41.0.html “Time is irrelevant, it’s not linear,” Bono proclaims near the beginning of No Line on the Horizon (4 stars), U2’...

Nepalese Parliament Orders End To Monkey Exports!!!!  http://groups.google.com/group/AR-News/browse_thread/thread/230ee091fd6050bc We welcome the Nepalese Parliament's decision to order a ban on monkey exports, however there are still some fundamental points which we utterly oppose........