"Oh, God. We’re going to have Religions of the World 101, right here in the store."

And like all of Kathy's Junk Drawer posts, this experience will be hilarious.

Kathy finds herself the unwitting assistant to a couple looking for not one but two baptism cards. After discarding a Bat Mitzvah card, Kathy helps the couple

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MySpace announced that is going to participate in Google’s OpenSocial. (story on PC World) OpenSocial is Google’s answer to two pressures: the market demand for fewer walled gardens in the social networking space, and the threat of Facebook since

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My foreign readers always ask me to list down top 5 things to do in Istanbul, and finally i come up with my list. Visit Hagia Sophia(Ayasofya) : Hagia Sophia was built by emperor Justinianus in 537. After the Ottoman conquest in 1453, it has become a mosque. It is a museum today where thousands of people all around the world visit every day.

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Imagine if there was a drug you could take that would give only the good, happy feelings of alcohol...Just think of all the ways such a development would change our society, for the good and bad.

On one hand, think of the benefits for alcoholics

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Japan loves poop like Germany loves the Hoff. In every form, be it children’s toys or flavoring and scent. Let’s not judge them for their affection to poop, I mean, a healthy digestive system is essential for a healthy body and mind, right? Regular poop will get all the toxins out, so really we should look up to them for promoting it so much

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It was a special day at the temple. I never learned which one, which deity from the pantheon I know little about was being feted for supernatural feats. People from across the city of 12 million had gathered at the largest temple in the region. Fridays are not usually busy days for religious observance in boomtown. I love old things. Maybe th

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I don’t even try to understand them anymore cause somehow they just manage to come up with even more obscure, strange and ridiculous products and trends. Just like the latest Japanese fashion trend: bandages and eye patches. Cosplay circles are loving it and so do the geeks:

Nonoko, who works at a popular maid cafe in Tokyo’s geek sanc

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Each country has it's own Christmas traditions and ways of celebration. While some have spread world wide and become common in more than one country, others are close to extinction and only survive in rural areas. No matter how you celebrate Christmas, there's always someone who does it differently... with rotten auk, ghosts,a horse's skul

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Doing business in China? Curious about Asia?

The ShangHighRoller tells you how to get smart, make money and have fun in the most exciting city on earth: Shanghai.

It's easy to be swept away by all the China myths and news that appear every d

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While researching some possible destinations in Vietnam, I’ve come across something I’ve never really written about before: art. The word “Vietnam” has always been frequently associated with war, and times of hardship, but has anyone ever seen any of the works by Nguyen Thanh Binh? Or photographs from Phan Tu Trang? According

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Well, if you are busy, young, or a professional from the middle class, poverty comes to mind usually when a community activity has been conducted in the slums, or when it is reported on TV - along the squatters’ areas, or in a far off barrio in the

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Okay the truth is, we lay blame all over but onto ourselves when our actions prove to cause an issue. Whats with the lack of responsibility, to quote Jerry Orbach in Dirty Dancing "when I'm wrong, I say I'm wrong." Where has that mentality gone, why does the justice system allow the frivolous lawsuits. In my opinion, it should stop. Tak

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In 1995, the Hard Rock Hotel opened its doors in Las Vegas, and I was fortunate enough to be a part of its opening staff. Hard Rock Hotel owner & developer, Peter Morton, saw an opportunity to create a competitive advantage over other Las Vegas casinos. He would do this by creating as part of the plan an organizational culture that would, at

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Fifty clowns in the Munich streets for a colorful and funny art performance by Julien Friedler. The clowns are avatars of the fascinating character Jack Balance, the hero of Spirit of Boz, and are walking the street around the Kammerspiele of Munich, telling people about Julien Friedler's "Around the Boz In 80 Years" art pro

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Alright, they, NBC, has finally created a talent show that I like and give my approval to, yes it has similarity to “American Idol”, but it is far better, you got true audience participation. Now listen to to who it has as the judges: Piers Morgan, Sharon Osbourne and David Hasselhoff, yeah, the guy from ”Night Rider” who drove

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Tissue culture microscopes are a kind of microscopes that is utilized in studying samples that are in culture. Cultured specimens are live organisms that are housed in petri dish or flasks. The Petri dish or flask becomes a hindrance in studying cultured specimens, but with the tissue culture microscopes, it is possible to obse

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