Welcome to the Creamsickle, an old orange Victorian in the Mission District of San Fransisco. Here resides Georgie, Soda and Cruzer. Cruzer is Georgie’s best friend, a heartbreaking photographer with a tough shell. Soda is a mid western transplant with a deep love of pirates and the sea. A book of love, sex, drugs, skating, heartbreak, [...]
For the last three years I've been friends with the author of the Google Earth Blog , Frank Taylor. Besides being a Google Earth enthusiast, Frank is also quite the thrill-seeker; he didn't hesitate to let me fly his plane while he shot photos of the 2006 X-Prize Cup . However, Frank is about to embark upon a mission requiring even more bravery. Frank is moving from virtual, to actual globetrotting...
A post about Edward II's somewhat mysterious journeys around Kent and Essex in the late summer and autumn of 1321, encompassing piracy and an attack on Southampton in which the king himself may have been implicated. In the Westminster parliament of August 1321, the Marcher lords and their allies, who had recently devastated the lands of Edward II's favourite Hugh Despenser and his father in Wales and...
You have to hand it to South Park . As one of our editors puts it, "as long as the world keeps doing stupid $h!t, they have unlimited material." Maybe so, but they never fail to deliver on said material. Last week, Eric Cartman performed Lady Gaga's hit "Poker Face" and while far from sophisticated, the humor of listening to the song in his G*d-awful voice is classic. The premise?...
Chinese President Hu JintaoChina has warned its ships to avoid waters off Somalia where pirates seized a Chinese coal ship on Monday, as Beijing sought to recover the vessel and crew. Somali pirates took control of the De Xin Hai and its crew of 25 Chinese nationals about 700 nautical miles east of the failed Horn of Africa state, where piracy has become a bane to the region‘s busy sea lanes....
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has warned its ships to stay away from waters off Somalia where pirates seized a Chinese coal ship on Monday, as Beijing sought to recover the vessel and crew.
(HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 6, 2009) - - Yesterday filmmaker Regina Kimbell filed a $5 million copyright infringement lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles against Chris Rock, HBO, the domestic and foreign distributor theatrical distributors for soon to be released documentary “Good Hair.” What is interesting to me about this is the question... can a doc idea be infringed upon? Obviously,...
Begin your voyage aboard an old ship in the pirate seas. Much like Zuma, this Marble Popper encircles you with a chain of colored balls to blow away. Click on a ball to grab it, and aim the cursor to fire. Keep in mind that combos greatly increase the points you receive for destroying groups. Explore the world of Camelia`s Locket by creating vibrant colorful chains. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FREE...
Latvia has quite a decent Eurovision trackrecord. They debuted with the charming group Brainstorm in 2000, have since won once (Marie N I wanna ESC 2002) and three years ago they sent the cutest display of innocent blond boys (and funniest simultaneous sign language) to date with Walters & Kaza s The War -or as they sang it the wur- is not over. This...