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Free Soups

Monday, November 26th, 2007

FREE - Soup Pouch Trio Leslie (aka The Soup Lady) is so sure you are going to love her delicious Soups - she’ll actually send you three FREE Pouches! That’s soup for 12 Hungry People! She only asks that you pay only the s/h. You need to check this out!

Full Belly Project

Monday, November 26th, 2007

I came across this video and I thought “what a great concept.” Thanks to the innovator: Mr. Jock Brandis for the peanut sheller for African use.

It has already greatly improved the nutrition of African children and reduced the labor of women. The children will not suffer from hunger anymore because of this great innovation. My […]

Always Wanted To Play The Piano?

Monday, November 26th, 2007

Follow the easy instructions from the famous Jermaine Griggs and in no time you’ll be sounding like you’ve been playing for years.

Marie

New Game In Town

Monday, November 26th, 2007

New Game In Town

I just discovered this new website and I am already addicted to it. Play and feed hungry people

It’s called Free Rice. It’s a vocabulary game. For each right answer that you give, you get to give 10 grains of rice for the hungry of the world.

I just gave 5000 grains this […]

Let’s have a World Punctuation Day!

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

Let’s have a World Punctuation Day!

By ERIC SHACKLE, in Sydney, Australia

Nine out of 10 emails seem to contain at least one typographical error, better known as a typo. Never before have so many words been mangled. Is it caused by carelessness, keyboard clumsiness, or just plain ignorance?

The U.S. celebrated its fourth […]

Printer’s Devil

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

The printer’s devil: Typo is his mane
Courtesy Charles Jones
WritersServices.com

By ERIC SHACKLE, in Sydney, Australia

Old-time printers used to recite or sing this heartfelt rhyme:

The typographical error is a slippery thing and sly
You can hunt til you are dizzy, but it somehow will get by.
Til the forms are off the presses, it […]

Life is too short and friends are too few.

Saturday, December 23rd, 2006

The Difference between Rich/Poor People?

One day, the father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the country with the express purpose of showing him how poor people live.

They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of what would be considered a very poor family.

On their return from […]

Bees’ brains for robot planes?

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

Bees’ brains for robot planes?
By ERIC SHACKLE, in Sydney, Australia

Bees use their brains, the size of sesame seeds, so cleverly that an Australian scientist believes humans may manage to adapt the tiny insects’ methods when designing pilotless flying machines. It sounds like a fanciful dream - but NASA and the US military […]

Rain raineth, but who wrote it?

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

Rain raineth, but who wrote it?

The Rain it Raineth Every Day, 1889 by Norman Garstin
Oil on canvas: Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Penzance, Cornwall, UK.

Does anyone know for sure just who wrote this much-quoted verse? It’s posted on dozens of websites without its author being named:

The rain it raineth every day
Upon the just and […]

Thursday, August 24th, 2006