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Kid-powered toys

Kids today often associate batteries with fun, thanks to the legions of battery-powered toys out there. The unfortunate result is not just a waste of power and an environmental hazard but also a...

Get Your Own Lead Paint Tester for Your Kids’ Toys

The past year has been inundated with toy recalls primarily due to lead paint hazards.  I’ve had to get rid of several toys that my children had over the past year that have been recalled...

Just Another Day

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Our Friends The Chinese Strike Again

And all the Bush admin does when it comes to insult after insult, attack after attack, is blather another, "Please Sir, may we have another Sir?"U.S. aircraft carrier denied access to Hong...

A Year Of Recalls: Finally Putting A Damper On Holiday Shopping?

2007 has been a particularly tough year American families buying toys for their kids. One after another this year, kids toys have been recalled – especially those made in China and sold in huge...

The payday loan that we may need!

Ti's the time to be jolly, does that sound familiar? It is that time of the year, when we all have to get gifts for everyone that we know. And if you have kids, well then you have to get them the...

Use the "One In, Two Out" Rule to Declutter [Organization]

Organizational blog Zen Habits has a good suggestion for making your decluttering efforts even more productive, and it's called the "one in, two out" rule: The rule: whenever you bring in an item,...

I am so sick of essays

I write so many essays and ironically they are not for my English class no they are for the 5 million colleges and scholarships. and I just dont have the energy (or time) to keep writing them but I...

Yet Another Toy Recall, 800,000 Units

And the poisonous products just keep on rolling.  Parents, you may want to start checking your kids toys to find ones NOT made in China.  Then again, do these things even exist? I can’t...

Lair dev calls ESRB 'bizarre', urges 'push the sex!'

Filed under: Culture Factor 5 president Julian Eggebrecht delivered a scathing critique of the ESRB's rating system during his keynote at the GCDC developer conference in Leipzig, Germany. The Lair...