A family (dad, mom, son) are traveling in their car. A road policeman stops them. He checks the seats, the safety belts, the car plate, the medical kit. Everything is in place. Then he says,

'Congratulations! You're the perfect driver. We have a special initiative today, we give money to the best drivers. Here you are, 500 dollars.'

'Thank you very much', the dad says. 'That will be useful. Now I can finally start the course for a driving license.'

Meanwhile, his wife adds,

'Do not listen to him, officer. He always talks nonsense when he is drunk.'

Their little son shouts from the back seat,

'I told you that we were going nowhere with this stolen car!'

A voice comes from the boot in the back,

'Hello? Did we cross the border already?'

The Icelandic national team in men’s handball beat Norway by one goal in the European Handball Championship in Vienna yesterday. With the 35-34 victory, Iceland secured its spot in the semi-final.

A draw would have sufficed for Iceland but Norway had to win by four goals to earn a spot in the semi-final.

“It is a wonderful feeling and I am so proud of the boys,” Iceland’s coach Gudmundur Gudmundsson told Morgunbladid.

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Garbage Dreams follows three teenage boys born into the trash trade and growing up in the world's largest garbage village, on the outskirts of Cairo. It is the home to 60,000 Zaballeen--Arabic for "garbage people." Far ahead of any modern "Green" initiatives, the Zaballeen survive by recycling 80 percent of the garbage they collect. When their community is suddenly faced with the globalization of its trade, each of the teenage boys is forced to make choices that will impact his future and the survival of his community.

My friend nairiporter finally managed to get to Haiti on Monday...she is now working at a tent camp in Pétionville district, just above Port-au-Prince. She had been working with Unicef for years under various programs in Malawi, Zambia and Angola...and now she joined the Unicef effort in the Ouest area, which is particularly focused on a large group of children who were separated from their families by the disaster. I heard that the only building which fell in the town was unfortunately the hospital, but some of the big golf fields there are now hosting one of the largest contingents of US military who were sent there to help, and one of the aid distribution hubs is located nearby. Not much news comes from there these days, but I saw TV footage and the situation is indeed desperate...

For those interested about a donation, here is a link with more info. Every penny is important.
 

Doddsson sweeps the corners (IcelandWeatherReport)

So, it’s been a while since we’ve heard anything of our friend Davíð Oddsson: he who has the ability to turn Icelandic society on its head with one pithy remark; he who was instrumental in launching the Icelandic rise-and-fall with the privatization of the banks; he who installed himself in a cushy job at the Central Bank shortly after deciding to step down as Prime Minister and evidently forgot that he might actually need some expertise; he who failed to back up the foreign currency reserves; he who lowered the reserve requirements for Landsbanki and then said the Icelandic nation would swallow Icesave – if it felt like it.

This is the same Davíð Oddsson who was recently made editor of Iceland’s longest-established newspaper Morgunblaðið and who is busy rewriting history up there on a daily basis. The same guy who fired a bunch of highly experienced journalists when he took over as editor, most significantly the head of the Icelandic journalists’ union.

Well. A few days ago the deputy head of the journalists’ union returned to work at Morgunblaðið after her maternity leave. And guess what?

Doddsson fired her, too.

Which just goes to prove that the man is nothing if not thorough.

What began as a routine birth on Christmas eve became a medical miracle. CBS reports on the story of a mother and newborn baby who were brought back to life in the emergency room after delivery.

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World leaders ride to a climate summit in limos, and Sean Hannity denies that global warming exists because it snowed in Houston.

Kumi Naidoo

He might just possibly have become the most influential South African in the world - Kumi Naidoo. Who? Until last month he was the head of Civicus, an international civil society advocacy outfit, but he has just become the head honcho of Greenpeace, the worldwide environmental campaign to protect endangered species and ward off global warming.

More about him.

Video: Greenpeace video introducing Kumi Naidoo as its new International Executive Director:


"The science is clear. We have to change the politics. If we can't change the politics, then we have to put our energies into changing the politicians."

The moment a crocodile was killed after taking a foolish shortcut across a herd of hippos...



See more about how this unfortunate guy got pwned =/