Every day, gardeners across the world flush away a valuable and sustainable source of fertilizer for their plants — urine. Urine is a good source of nitrogen and other minerals and, providing it is used correctly, is completely safe. Using urine as a fertilizer saves money, fossil fuels (used extensively in the production of chemical fertilizers) and water  Read more... (413 words, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

This is best solution i could find.

1. Open OO Writer
2. Open Tools/Options/OpenOffice.org/Java
3. Wait 5-10 seconds until the table (Vendor/Version/Features) is filled with at least one position (which should be “Sun Microsystems Inc.” and “1.6.0_02″)
4. Make sure this position is chosen (filled dot)
5. Make sure option “use a Java runtime environment” is checked
6. Then, get to Tools/Extension magager
7. Open “My Extensions”
8. Choose every non-working extension and Press button “Disable”
9. Then, choose it again and press button “Enable”

Today you can run many Windows software from Linux native using Wine or one of the many virtualization tools such as VMWare.

There are so many new developments regarding how to apply Wine to run Windows programs on Linux that we are now updating this entire page contents. In the mean time you may find it beneficial to visit: http://www.wine-reviews.net/ and http://frankscorner.org/ for Wine help.  Read more... (706 words, estimated 2:49 mins reading time)

Historic sex toys sold for £3,600 at Essex auction

A pair of historic sex toys

An anonymous bidder bought the wooden items

Two historic sex toys thought to date back to the 1700s have been sold at an Essex auction for £3,600.  Read more... (193 words, estimated 46 secs reading time)

Online grocery sales have outstripped electronic and gadget-related purchases over the internet for the first time, according to new figures released today.

Statistics from the voucher codes website MyVoucherCodes found that online grocery shopping now accounts for 31% of all sales on this channel, while electronic items make up 25% of sales.  Read more... (239 words, estimated 57 secs reading time)

This is going to be a long list.

The Who – Magic Bus

Aerosmith – Livin’ On The Edge

Cream – White Room

Metallica – Wherever I May Roam

Friends Provident is an organisation offering life insurance in the United Kingdom. It was founded as a mutual Friendly Society for Quakers, although it was demutualised in 2001 and became a publicly listed company, no longer linked with the Religious Society of Friends.  Read more... (138 words, estimated 33 secs reading time)

35 Online Tools That Make Your Freelance Career Easier

Posted May 14, 2009 in Productivity, Tools/Resources 107 Comments »  Read more... (1036 words, 1 image, estimated 4:09 mins reading time)

Rock band The White Stripes are taking on the US Air Force, complaining that it used one of the group’s songs in a TV advert without permission.

In a statement on their website, the duo said they took “strong insult and objection” to the use of the tune in an ad during the Super Bowl on Sunday.  Read more... (303 words, estimated 1:13 mins reading time)

Archimedes Screw.

The ability to draw water uphill, against the flow of gravity revolutionised irrigation and the supply of water. Designed in 213 BCE, the Archimedes screw is still used in irrigation today.

The printing press  Read more... (515 words, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

Title says it all. I’ll be updating this as times passes and according to your coments. Well the list so far is:

• Avatar
• Sherlock Holms
• The blind side

Correspondent, Jan 6 (Staff) Paypal is facing severe outage and all payments to/from India are being reversed. A lot of Indian PayPal users have reported that their recent payments have been reversed by PayPal. In what seems to be an outage might turn out to be a restriction imposed by RBI on PayPal’s payment system. However when contacted about the entire episode all PayPal told me was that they were experiencing technical issues with Indian PayPal payments and they had reversed all personal payments to their respective senders.  Read more... (436 words, estimated 1:45 mins reading time)