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ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

UK Live Earth Unveiled

Seventeen of the headliners who will play Wembley Stadium in London as part of the 24-hour, 7-continent Live Earth concerts on 7/7/07 were unveiled today by Live Earth founder and executive producer Kevin Wall. Ticketing for the UK concert begins on Friday the 13th of April 2007. “This monster lineup will ensure Live Earth meets our goal of bringing together

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Nine Non-profit Organizations Partner in the i’m Initiative

Representatives from nine of the world’s most reputable non-profit cause organizations gathered today to announce their involvement in the i’m Initiative and to discuss the role technology is increasingly playing in their efforts to reach new audiences. This new initiative connects nine of the world’s most effective organizations dedicated to social causes to Windows Live Messenger customers. When joining the

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Give to ninemillion.org with every search!

This has been said before but many of you still haven’t hear of it so I beileve it deserves a mention again as help for the world’s nine million child refugees is just a click away thanks to the online fundraising effort called Click for the Cause. For every windows live search made using Click for the Cause until March 31, 2007,

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MSN Games Survey Reveals Men Need “Me Time” Too!

According to a recent survey commissioned by Microsoft Corporations MSN Games, one of the world’s leading casual gaming sites, Americans are feeling more stressed out and starved for time than ever, with 56 percent of men (age 18 to 34) and 71 percent of women (age 18 to 34) spending less than an hour on themselves a day engaged in

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What Happens to Your body if you stop smoking Right now?

If you are a smoker and were to stop smoking right now, this is what apparently would happen to your body: In 20 minutes your blood pressure will drop back down to normal. In 8 hours the carbon monoxide (a toxic gas) levels in your blood stream will drop by half, and oxygen levels will return to normal. In 48

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CondomText.com GrabAcondom.com is now Live!

Just got word that CondomText.com / GrabAcondom.com is now Live! You are getting this mail because you fancied being told when our new condom ordering service using your mobile phone when live. Today is that day! A few days earlier than hoped! You may have arrived at the site via the name CondomText.com, this name has now changed to grabacondom.com and

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Condomtext.com coming soon!

Need Condoms? Want the easy discrete way? Text the word CONDOM to the number: N/A (COMING OCT 06th) And condomtext.com will then send your condoms in a plain envelope straight to your address. No questions. No Que. No Hassle. The text message that you get back will cover the cost of the condoms and their postage. UK users only! The

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Six pack by summer – Sixpackbysummer.com

Erik Kastner the guy that made “Spell With Flickr” is giving people $1,000 out of his own pocket if he doesnt have a visable 6-Pack this summer. Six Pack by Summer is an experiment in willpower and game theory. I, Erik Kastner, will have until July 4th, 2006 to show the world a 4-pack, then a little more time for

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We can rebuild him. We have the technology. Almost!

I find articles like this very interesting especially when they talk about The Six Million Dollar Man, ok not entirely but I do like articles which talk about fiction becoming reality, and this is one of them that as caught my eye today because it’s definitely as truth in it. Three decades after the hit television programme The Six Million

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Mind control over muscle power

Thinking about the way your muscles work could physically boost your strength, research suggests. A Hull University team asked 30 subjects to do biceps curls and found their muscles worked more when they focused on what the muscles were doing. But lower rates of muscle activity were recorded when they simply visualised themselves lifting the weight. The study is being