U.S.A. National Parks

The variety of scenarios ensures there is a park that will make a perfect destination for you, either you enjoy learning about history or nature.
All you have to do is take the map and chose the destination that best suits your necessities.
You might even be willing to volunteer. Or are you looking for a job opportunity?

The parks include place like Alcatraz Island, Golden Gate, Death Valley, Joshua Tree, Constitution Gardens, Grand Canyon...

Just a suggestion: visit a park that goes across ten states and follow the steps of the emigrants who travelled to the gold fields and farmlands in California during the 1840s and 1850s. Visit The California National Historic Trail.

Wisconsin Medical Society

Kim Peek, the savant, passed away in December 2009.
Read the information the Wisconsin Medical Society has about Kim Peek and the Savant syndrome.
On this webpage you will also find information about Daniel Tammet, Stephen Wiltshire and other savants.

Go to the web

The Pirate Bay Trial

In case you have an interest in file sharing or internet downloads, you surely know about The Pirate Bay and the trial the had to face. If not, this is the occasion for you to learn.

The Pirate Bay trial was a joint criminal and civil prosecution in Sweden of four individuals charged for promoting the copyright infringement of others with the torrent tracking website The Pirate Bay. The criminal charges were supported by a consortium of intellectual rights holders led by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), who filed individual civil compensation claims against the owners of The Pirate Bay.

Read the complete article from the Wikipedia.
Visit The Pirate Bay website.
Learn more about The Pirate Party from Sweeden.

Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday

Thanksgiving falls on the last Thursday in November, and Black Friday is the day following Thanksgiving.
Sure you know about Thanksgiving, but what about Black Friday? Why is it "black" instead of "white" since it is the unofficial beginning of the Christmas season?
You can learn more by reading this WikiPedia article.

The Longest Way

"My name is Christoph Rehage, I was born on November 9th in 1981 in Hanover, Germany.

My mother is originally from Hungary, and I have a lovely little sister and a little brother – they live with my Dad and our cat and our dog in a little town called Bad Nenndorf in the Northwest of Germany. I have spent a high school year in Wichita, Kansas before, and I have had jobs in Frankfurt and Paris."

This is the beginning of a log story. Christoph decided to walk from Beijing to his little home town in Germany. The result is an amazing blog: pleople, places, experiences... A long journey to discover what to do in life.

If you want to find out how far he went you have to visit his blog: The Longest Way

Mother's Day Special

Free Rice

FreeRice is a non-profit website run by the United Nations World Food Program. Their partner is the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

FreeRice has two goals:
1. Provide education to everyone for free.
2. Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.


How does it work?
* Click on the right answer.
* If you get it right, you get a harder question. If you get it wrong, you get an easier question.
* For each answer you get right, 10 grains of rice are donated to the United Nations World Food Program.

Not convinced yet? Need more? Watch the video to see the rice arriving in a refugee camp.
Just do it: help to fight hunger!

Safaricom Marathon

This marathon is run through the spectacular terrain of the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya, with wild game looking on curiously. Participants raise money for conservation and community projects.

Visit www.tusk.org for further information.

You should not miss Tusk latest video:


Just amazing...

Fafi: an artist

Is street art a male thing?



Read this blog entry before answering the question.


You might enjoy having a look at other entries of "Concrete Canvas. Street Art Blog"

Julian Beever

Some critics are reluctant to use the word "art" when speaking about his works.
Others refer to it as "street art".



Do you know what I am refering to? Visit the artist's website

Thanks Paula for the link.