The city council last night voted to spend $250,000 to install automotive-type airbags on all downtown lampposts.
The decision came after hundreds of pedestrians have been injured over the past few years while inadvertently walking into posts wh...
The President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, is now up in arms over spam texts, although, it must be added that on this occasion, it's not firearms.
Palestinians throughout Gaza are being inundated with unwanted spam text messages ur...
Homestead, FL - The embarrassing brawl that Nascar Superstar, Jeff Gordon, and his pit crew were involved in at the Phoenix International Raceway on Sunday with rival Clint Bowyer, appears to have been in the name of track safety. It seems that the u...
Controversial South African born England batsmen, Kevin Pietersen, has reached an agreement with the ECB that will see him return for the tour to India.
The "provocative text" saga which has rumbled on since the summer series against South Africa...
LOS ANGELES - It has not been a good year for Lindsay Lohan as the freckle-faced, troubled girl has already been involved in two automobile accidents.
And in both cases she rear-ended the other vehicle which leads many to believe that she is just...
A new law has been invoked to persuade mobile users to speak rather than text. Medical professionals are frequently treating mobile users with Short Thumb Syndrome, a disease which eats away at texting thumbs.
Doctor Sawyer of the University of La...
Finally it has arrived, the complete works of Shakespeare have been translated into text. International text service providers, THUMBS 4U, refer to the grueling project that they have just completed as the Textual Reproduction and Acting of Shakespearean Heritage (or T.R.A.S.H. for short).
I asked their Public Relations Executive about the project and he said, "We are really excited about what...
Texting for the over 60's.
The rioting, mugging, unemployed, alcoholic, smoking, drug-taking, spoilt youths and kids of today, have all their little SMS codes, like BFF, WTF, LOL etc.
So here are some codes suitable for the more mature, decrepit, and coffin-seeking Senior Citizens of today.
AFE - Another Fart Escaped
ATD - At the Doctor's
ATM - All The Medications
BAS - Burnt Ano...
Halifax, the post industrial town that sits near Huddersfield and Leeds on the M62, has applied to have its name changed.
"Halifax is so last century," said town Mayor, Keith Bottlebottom. "We need a name for the twenty-first century."
Halifax...
Federal transportation officials have postponed the release of "UnSafe2Drive", a free downloadable cell phone app which would allow drivers to notify highway patrol officers of hazardous road conditions and accidents via text message.
An adverti...
Sussex - A sixty-something lady from Bognor has complained about misleading headlines blaming policemen, suspected of receiving News International bungs, for sending her inappropriate S&M texts.
Retired soprano Mrs Aida Bumburst said today the...
LOS ANGELES - The year 2011 was definitely a year of ups and downs for Miley Cyrus, the 19-year-old singer who became nationally known for her starring role on the Disney Channel's Hannah Montana.
During the summer Miley had a bad planking experie...
Pakistan Telecom companies have drawn up a list of words that "texters" are not allowed to use. If the "texters" are caught using these words during texting in public they will be flogged in the main square and used as a example.
The list contains...
Millions of Blackberry owners across Europe have aired their disgust at being forced into communicating by speech after a server outage in Slough meant they were left having to depend on their scarcely functioning vocal chords, rather than Instant Me...
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TTFN 4 NOW...
David Brady of Durango, Colorado has been arrested by local authorities for deviant behaviour. The sixteen year old high school student is being held in county jail pending psychiatric evaluation and could be sentenced to time in a state mental hospi...
Phoenix, AZ - The Arizona Legislature today overwhelmingly passed the "English Only Texting While Driving" law. The new state law would make it illegal in Arizona to text in any language other than English while operating motor vehicles on state...
HOLLYWOOD HILLS - Demi Lovato was to have appeared at a concert at this year's Wisconsin Cheese State Fair in May but she has reportedly cancelled it.
Lovato, who last year spent three months at The Henry and Betty Ford Rehab Clinic spoke with iGo...