5 Pointers to a Successful Newsletter

A newsletter is a great way to show that you are the expert in any given area. It’s also a great way to build trust with your subscribers by providing great unique content. Providing a free newsletter can be the gateway in which you turn visitors into customers and passerby’s into friends. Read More »

9 ways to get happy in the next 30 minutes

In the next half hour, tackle as many of the following suggestions as possible. Not only will these tasks themselves increase your happiness, but the mere fact that you’ve achieved some concrete goals will boost your mood. Read More »

10 things they won’t tell you about retirement

If you’re like many middle-aged Canadians,you used to think that you would retire at 55. Now you’re hoping for 65. Once you used to smile fondly at the retirement ads that showed laughing grey-haired couples golfing in tropical paradises. Now you have an overwhelming desire to jump out of the sand trap and smack those smug retirees with a nine iron. Read More »

10 Careers that Top $30 per Hour

In just 60 minutes, you could earn enough to pay for a tank of gas, the cable bill, gym membership, or dinner out. Thirty dollars still covers some of life’s essential costs. Earn that much in just one hour on the job, and you have enough to build a comfortable life. Read More »

Red Wine is Good for You! Have a Glass Today!

Researchers have found that men who drink an average of four to seven glasses of red wine per week are only 52% as likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer as those who do not drink red wine, reports the June 2007 issue of Harvard Men’s Health Watch. In addition, red wine appears particularly protective against advanced or aggressive cancers. Read More »

Invasion of the Cassowaries

The most dangerous bird in the world, the Cassowary, is on the move. Read More »

Food makers want to sell cheap food for big profits

Gone are the days of pushing “premium” food offerings, says the Wall Street Journal -big food manufacturers like Kraft and Campbell are going to be pushing “cheap” foods like tomato soup and cheese singles – foods which are thought of as “easy on the wallet” but are still hugely profitable for the manufacturers. Read More »

$10,000 date with Sharapova

This is one of those stories that makes you shake your head in disbelief — first, that it happened, and second, that you didn’t get in on it in time. Seems the lovely Wimbledon champ Maria Sharapova put herself — well, a date with herself, anyway — up for auction at a charity tennis tournament. The winning bid was $10,000, which seems a bit below market value Read More »

America’s No. 1 Export: Debt

Japan and Germany make cars. Saudi Arabia pumps oil. China supplies the world with socks and toys and flat-screen TVs. What does the United States produce? Lots of stuff, but in recent years this country’s No. 1 export–by far–has been debt. Read More »

Man Sues Doctors For Amputating Penis

What part of “circumcision” was unclear? That’s basically what a Kentucky man and his wife are asking of two doctors who cut off the man’s penis while he was under the knife. The doctors say they discovered cancer and made an emergency decision. The man says, dude, wtf, you cut off my penis. It doesn’t grow back, and it was kind of important to me. Read More »

Should You Lease a Car or Buy New?

Shhhh. Don’t tell anyone where you heard this. Automotive journalists aren’t ever supposed to say something like this, so lean in close: maybe you shouldn’t buy a new car right now. Read More »

Five Break-Up Warning Signs

One day, you are madly in love. You’re cuddling on the couch, reading love poems and feeding each other sushi. And that’s when it happens: Your partner sits you down for the “It’s-Not-You, It’s-Me” talk. You’re confused and left wondering, “How could I have missed the signs?” Breaking up is never easy. Your ego and heart are bound to get bruised. But if you could just see the breakup coming, it might make the whole business easier to stomach. While hindsight is 20/20, there are always warning signals along the way. Read More »

How to Tell if a Guy Is Cheating

1. He’s superprotective of his gadgets. “The main way that trysts are found out is through the discovery of incriminating e-mails, IM chats, cell phone texts or bills,” says Belisa Vranich, PsyD, a clinical psychologist in New York City. So if he’s being unfaithful, he may guard his gadgets or act really defensive when you innocently touch his phone or computer. It should be a giant red flag if he readily gave you passwords in the past, and now he’s more evasive. Read More »

Spray-On Condoms: Still a Hard Sell

Edison had his lightbulb, Ford had his Model T, and Jan Vinzenz Krause has his spray-on condom. Inspired by the mechanics of a drive-through car wash, the German sexual-health educator designed a custom-fitting male contraceptive using liquid latex and some materials from a hardware store. “I felt a little like MacGyver,” he says of building the contraption. Read More »

US network NBC plans 3,600 hours of Olympic coverage

US television network NBC is undertaking what it’s touting as the most massive project in media history, producing 3,600 hours of coverage of the Olympics spread over 19 days Read More »