Archive for November, 2009
Facebook Faces Lawsuit Over Scammy Advertising In It’s Games
Facebook and Zynga (the makers of the popular games Mafia Wars and Farmville), are facing down a class action lawsuit over various advertisements that run on the website and in the games. There is a lot of concern over the advertisements themselves, and the class action is seeking $5 million dollars from the companies.
The New Face Of Moms
It seems that regardless of the advances society makes socially, people still become shocked when a mom does something, or acts in a way that doesn’t fit many people idea of the norm. It’s a strange state, but it one of the reason that the ‘bad momma’ obsession is what it is. A mom ‘confesses’ [...]
Need Closed Captioning? Rental Version of Up Doesn’t Have It
Image via Wikipedia Perhaps trying something new to persuade consumers to go out and buy the full DVD of Pixar’s Up, Disney has removed all the ‘extras’ from the rental version of UP. The extras on the hit movie apparently include closed captioning for the hearing impaired. Disney has confirmed the move, and has no [...]
Half Dose of H1N1 Vaccination May Be Enough to Protect Children
Image by = xAv = (?) via Flickr According to a report from Canada’s Vancouver Sun just a single half dose of the H1N1 vaccination may be enough to protect children from age three to age nine from the disease. Which is good news for parents who may be anxious over [...]
Coping With A Long Absence Of A Parent
Explaining a long absence of one parent for any reason can be a difficult thing, both coping yourself and helping your child cope can be just as hard- if not harder to do. From business trips to military deployments, having a parent away for a time can be hard. While it may still be difficult [...]
