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I know this really looks like a Chinese take-away-meal… But it is all about Chinese take-away-organs, I am afraid.

China is going to ban transplants of organs. For a part to counter the protests about crooks giving death penalty on perpose to use their organs for transplantation in favor of good paying customers.

But the main reason is that because of this business there is an enormous lack of organs in China.
Two million organs are needed every years, but only 20.000 transplants can take place each year.

Risky business to wait for a transplant in China…

LINK : BBC News (+ picture)

Scrabble is a fun game and it makes that a language that is faiding away slowly, will probably survive.

The Dakota (Native American) Sioux Language is saved by the bell…eh…by the game scrabble…

Scrabble teams are formed by different Sioux reservation schools to compete with each other.

This is a great and fun way to keep your language!

LINK : HappyNews.Com

Yesterday, I saw two man running as if life depended on it, hurdle over the barrier of the tram.
As I was taking a box out of my car I didn’t give it any futher attention and entered the post office.

After coming out of there, I did find a whole circus of police, police cars and special squad outside. Some cops were asking around if someone something. I told the cop what I saw and then he wanted to write down some personal details.

Today my doorbell rang and a detective wanted to take my official statement.

To my big surprise, for someone that sees and hears almost everthing – like a helicopter view – , it happenend that I had tunnel view at that moment, overthere.
I had seen the two man running and about how they looked, but I didn’t see anything of the hold up Brink’s van, until leaving the post office.

This feels so strange. Just like I missed a part of the movie.

Ken Livingstone could be right in telling the US Ambassador in the UK, Robert Tuttle, to pay an 8 pound (read: € 11,62 ) a-day tax.

But in all cases where he is involved he seems to have a extremely bad taste of expressing himself and I am not even talking his sick way of thinking.

How on earth is it possible that a guy like him can get on this kind a place, as Mayor of London.
 
The US Ambassador could be a “car salesman”, but what does that make you, Ken?!

Link : Independent Online
Link : The-Crab.com

“Or even my stupidity”, Reebok should say after the death of a four-year old boy that tried to eat the link of a charm bracelet that Reebok.

The kid didn’t choke, but died of lead poisoning, however.

Were was this cheap crap fabricated?! How are workers that make them protected?

No, I am not that green, but this was the second question that arose.

No good thinking, Mr. Reebok. Did it have to be that cheap?!

LINK: news.telegraph

“Oh, now I’m scared” “NOT!!”

The famous (read: infamous) Encyclopedia Britannica (EB) is angry. Angry at Nature (the journal)…

Despite this high reputation EB doesn’t manage to formulate an answer within a normal period of time, to the Nature article that stated that the free and public domain encyclopedia Wikipedia and the ($70 a year) EB were not that bad at all. Both of them.

Now it has hit back with a 20 pages (childish) answer, after a 3 month wait! They had to think about it I guess.

All I want is an accurate and from-this-world encyclopedia that is full of subjects old and new times. Not EB, I am afraid.

You know why I hate EB?

Their pedlars bugged me at whatever event or fair I was, the past 20+ years. I just didn’t matter what kind a fair it was: ideal home exhibition, computer fairs, collectors fairs, stamp collectors fairs (that’s different), (book) printers fairs, security fairs, holiday fairs and so I can continue. First the paper ones, then the I don’t know how many cd’s electronic version and now the online version.
Get lost!

But you know what is so significant? Wikipedia has an medium long article on the EB, but if you search the EB Online for Wikipedia you get no result.

I know enough…