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Post by bluerose on Apr 6, 2008 11:44:04 GMT -5
Needed Good News How to get your fix of feelgood stories taken from the Montreal Gazette Saturday April 5th. The Web has seen an explosion of positive news sites,most of which don't create news but re-purpose it for positive or comic effect. Here are some examples. GNN: The Good News Network www.goodnewsnetwork.orgPNN: Positive News Network www.positivenew.netRun by "Mr. Positive," PNN is similar to GNN. The Happy Herald www.happyherald.comOne of the world's few true good news newspapers. For my tastes, the Florida-based Happy Herald might be a little to positive,presenting air-brushed New Age news.Intriguing nonetheless. www.fark.comAlthough Fark would hate to be labelled as a good news site,FARK is a tremendously popular site of repurpsoed comic and outlandish news. For those who like their news funny,this is it. Strangely informative. www.digg.comDigg lets readers vote and create a Top 10 of daily news and technology stories. It is supposed to reveal what people are realy interested in, which seems to be: Bush-bashing ,Macs and Top 10 lists. Positive Psychology www.ppc.sas.upenn.eduPositve Psychology Centre at the University of Pennsylvania. Run by the main originator of Positive Psychology,Martin Seigelman. Written by Albert Nerenberg
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Post by bluerose on Apr 6, 2008 11:48:24 GMT -5
Front Page GNN The 50th Anniversary Of The Peace Symbol In case you missed this gem in Friday's 'On This Day in History' column (featured every day at the bottom of the Good News Network homepage), the peace sign was created 50 years ago by artist Gerald Holtom in London for an anti-war protest. Peace activists marched from Trafalgar Square to an atomic weapons factory 50 miles away in Aldermaston. The new symbol of their movement was printed on clothing and signs -- and ten days later debuted for Americans in a Life magazine photo. The design incorporated the flag signals (semaphores) for the letters N and D --for Nuclear Disarmament. Gerald Holtom and his anti-nuclear compatriots deliberately didn't trademark the symbol, so it was free for everyone to use. Happy birthday, peace sign! Also cute little video on the front page of The Happy Herald,check it out
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Post by ۞Quaalude™۞ on Apr 6, 2008 13:04:35 GMT -5
So Thats Y Guests Started Randomly Wishing Happy Birthdays - Very Cool , i,m only 40 so i came around some 10 years after this , and I,m Heavy into Peace on Earth - Peace in General - QC
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