• What the Frak have they been smoking?!
• Finally some brains!

Titicaca Lake in Bolivia by Giovanni Novara

While the first option a clear favourite is among basement dwellers, here at Frankylicious HQ we really think that the Daily Mail finally an entry worthy of reading provided:

Bolivia is drawing up a draft UN treaty which would give Mother Earth the same rights as humans, including the right to life, to pure water and clean air.

The South American country wants the UN to recognize the Earth as a living entity that humans have sought to ‘dominate and exploit’.

According to research Bolivia will become a desert in around 100 years due to climatological changes. Time to protect our planet more and not just in Bolivia. Time for everyone to stand up and do what we need to do. Kyoto naysayers included.

Photo Credit: Giovanni Novara

Sometimes even The Sun can come up with interesting stories, albeit one would have preferred the same story to be covered by the NYT. Still interesting about people living in Las Vegas’ flood tunnels. A piece on reality for many, estimated around 700 people.

…they make their money in some of the biggest casinos in the world.

But their life is far from the ordinary.

Because, along with hundreds of others, the couple are part of a secret community living in the dark and dirty underground flood tunnels below the famous strip.

Rather than working in the bars or kitchens they “credit hustle”, prowling the casinos searching the fruit machines for money or credits left by drunken gamblers.

Despite the risks from disease, highly venomous spiders and flooding washing them away, many of the tunnel people have put together elaborate camps with furniture, ornaments and shelves filled with belongings.

Steven and girlfriend Kathryn’s base – under Caesar’s Palace casino – is one of the most elaborate. They even have a kettle and a makeshift shower fabricated out of an office drinking water dispenser.

Source: The Sun.

STRAY dogs are being skewered on hooks and dragged behind boats as live shark bait, The Sun can shockingly reveal. The cruel practice takes place on French-controlled Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean, where Prince William spent two holidays.

As usual, we are always careful when it comes to The Sun and actual truth, still if this IS true, it is a shocking revelation.

I’ll happily approve a comment from someone who completely disagrees with everything I believe in, but if I get a positive comment with a curse word in it, I’ll edit it out. My blog is like my living room. If someone was acting out in my house, I’d ask that person to leave.

Matt on what WordPress tries to do:

It’s my responsibility to meet as many users as possible and direct the software project in a way that reflects their interests. Last year, I probably met 2,000 or 3,000 people who make their living from WordPress. We want to be like Google, eBay, Amazon — they all enable other people to make far more money than they capture. And that’s ultimately what we’re trying to do. We’re trying to create a movement.

Source: Inc. Magazine.