I read a pretty cool article today from LiveScience.com about how other countries celebrate their independence days. I have to admit that aside from France’s Bastille Day, I didn’t even know the dates of the other celebrations listed in the article — not even Canada Day (sorry to all my friends in the Great White North!).
If you want to learn how France, Canada, India, Mexico, Peru, Australia, and a few other countries celebrate their independence, click through the link below. Some places do party with fireworks and parades like we do, but I think you might be surprised by a few of the other celebrations!
That doesn’t sound very appetizing, does it? Nevertheless, it seems that a lot of people are buzzing about the positive effects of eating red yeast rice regularly.



As usual, I’m a bit late getting this week’s Booking Through Thursday meme up — but at least I didn’t forget it altogether, as I’ve done more often than not!

Since anyone with Internet access is allowed to edit Wikipedia, there are frequent cases of “vandalism”, where people purposely post humorous, malicious, or simply misleading information. Of course, most of the time these problems are cleaned up pretty quickly, which means it’s somewhat hard to actually find examples of vandalism. In fact, the first time I saw an instance with my own eyes was a couple days ago when I was reading about Mario Kart Wii on Wikipedia.

I know it’s Sunday, but I was so busy the past couple of days that I didn’t get a chance to do this week’s Booking Through Thursday meme on time. The organizers always say that you can post about the meme on any day, not just Thursday, so I’m taking them at their word this week!