July 30, 2007 by E Magazine
Dear EarthTalk: Artificial turf has been popular on sports fields for decades for a variety of reasons, but is it also a good environmentally friendly option for residential lawns?
– Sharon Chinchilla, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
The use of artificial turf for residential lawns is a growing trend across America, notably in regions where water supplies have [...]
July 28, 2007 by John M. Guilfoil
As the drama surrounding Michael Vick grows, the Upper Deck trading card company announced that they will remove the embattled quarterback from all trading card sets.
“Of course we appreciate the fact that Mr. Vick is innocent until proven guilty, but the allegations alone have resulted in an outpouring of very strong emotion within our organization [...]
July 25, 2007 by John M. Guilfoil
Zendoku is another attempt to bring Sudoku’s addictive logic to the video gaming world. It’s a valiant effort with cute, DBZ-like martial arts characters and kitschy symbols instead of numbers on the game board. The graphics aren’t great, however, and the storyline is boring and repetitive. The game tries to suck you in with different [...]
July 24, 2007 by Blast Magazine Newsroom
(ARA) – World famous chef Curtis Stone, star of the hit TLC show “Take Home Chef,” knows that each season is unique. With all the bounty of the summer season, cooks take advantage of the available produce to experiment with lighter fare and all the fresh vegetables that are readily available.
“Each season presents different flavors,” [...]
July 23, 2007 by E Magazine
Dear EarthTalk: Bottled water companies would have us all believe that tap water is unsafe to drink. But I’ve heard that most tap water is actually pretty safe. Is this true?
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July 22, 2007 by John M. Guilfoil
Her Interactive recently released another treat for Nancy Drew mystery fans in “The White Wolf of Icicle Creek.”
Nancy goes undercover as a maid and chef through hotel rooms at the Icicle Creek lodge in the Canadian Rockies as she investigates weird accidents and a mysterious wolf, “which appears before each incident but then mysteriously disappears [...]
July 21, 2007 by Daniel Peleschuk
You can just feel that yellow-hot heat coming around the corner, right down Evergreen Terrace.
The Simpsons Movie is fast-approaching, and you’d better be ready for an all-out onslaught of unbearably cheesy gimmicks. This is just another one of them.
Simpsonizeme.com, a site recently birthed by Fox and Burger King, allows curious visitors–those with tons of free [...]
July 21, 2007 by Blogcritics
Written by Matt Paprocki
With three years to simmer, All-Pro Football brings the 2K style of the sport into a new generation and it feels a lot like… 2K Sports football. There are few notable changes aside from the licensing once on the field, and fans will clamor at the chance to play this updated [...]
July 18, 2007 by John M. Guilfoil
Researchers announced today an exploit for Macintosh OSX that could potentially expose thousands of computers to worm-like activity.
A blogger wrote that he created proof of concept code that opens Intel processor-powered Mac’s to exploitation. The code is suspected to act like a computer worm, infecting a host system and using it to spread to other [...]
July 18, 2007 by Blogcritics
From the “it should be obvious” department comes the second attempt at capturing the national pastime on the Wii.
