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Atheists: behold the banana
2007-10-27 15:10:00 Have a look at other funny videos on Carson’s Post More About: Video , Politics , Religion , Funny , Humour
Celebration of the Hijab
2007-10-26 18:26:00 Hey, this is pretty cute. Muslim students distributed headscarves at the University of Toronto yesterday to celebrate National Hijab day ? to foster an understanding of the women who wear them. More About: Lifestyle , Celebration
Entertainment: Sarkozy to follow the Pierre Trudeau template?
2007-10-26 18:07:00 Having marketed his marriage as an integral part of his presidential appeal, President Nicolas Sarkozy has had to endure the agony of its breakup in the full glare of the publicity he courted for his private life. But what happens now that Cécilia, once the object of his unwavering adoration, is gone? How does a ... More About: Environment , Entertainment , Template , Pierre
Iraqi: the war over money
2007-10-26 17:57:00 As the emerging story of the Iraq War slowly dials into focus, it seems increasingly that the war is more over money than ideology, and not just oil money. We have been bombarded in recent weeks with stories about how the US military has out-sourced much of its former functions. With 180,000 contractors in Iraq there ... More About: Money , Iraqi
KAUST: the Saudis to finally join the Science Revolution
2007-10-26 17:08:00 Saudi King Abdullah has broken taboos, declaring that the Arabs have fallen critically behind much of the modern world in intellectual achievement. This NY Times article explains how Saudi King Tries to Grow Modern Ideas in Desert: On a marshy peninsula 50 miles from this Red Sea port, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is staking $12.5 billion ... More About: Science , Technology , Join , Revolution , Finally
Why does lawless Israel escape UN/US criticism?
2007-10-26 17:01:00 Why isn’t the Israel i strike in Syria an international outrage? If Syria had bombed Israel it would have been. And why the bombing? Is it really because the Syrian building resembled a North Korean nuclear facility? This is the evidence? This BBC article entitled Syria air strike target ‘removed’ reports: Syria has consistently denied any plans to build ... More About: Criticism , Lawless , Escape , Esca
Cap-and-Trade vs Carbon Tax
2007-10-26 16:46:00 The US is debating which way to go: Cap-and-Trade vs Carb on Tax. According to this Christian Science Monitor article: A tax on carbon to cool the planet: Cap-and-Trade: “may put the US on a knowable track to, say, an 80 percent reduction in carbon emissions by 2050. But the flaws in cap-and-trade plans as experienced in other ... More About: Carbon tax
British companies developing an new eco-business concepts.
2007-10-26 09:25:00 Gordon Brown might be fiddling about with Britain’s environmental commitments, but some companies are having a go at becoming more “green” on their own. British Telecom is one the UK’s largest energy users, and sucks about 0.7% of all power off the national grid. That’s a lot of power, and the company is looking to ... More About: Business , Companies , Environment , Energy , Concepts
Microfinance for the people by the people
2007-10-25 15:11:00 The internet continues to develop clever little experiments. eBay has just started up a site called Micro Place .com where US citizens can go online and fund their own microfinance project. What? Think of it as an aid foster child programme, but instead of a child you get a business, and instead of a photo and crayon scribbled ... More About: People , Developing World , Microfinance
David Cameron: the ?Vista? of Blairism
2007-10-24 23:31:00 Who is David Cameron ? Well, he is the leader of the UK’s Conservative Party. He is from a PR background. He is young, slick, and full of enthusiasm. He had a lot of respect for Tony Blair and he hates Gordon Brown. Gordon Brown hates him back. This much is ... More About: Politics , Vista , Lair
Billions in Baghdad: follow the money (if you can)
2007-10-24 18:12:00 Between April 2003 and June 2004, $12 billion in U.S. currency?much of it belonging to the Iraqi people?was shipped from the Federal Reserve to Baghdad , where it was dispensed by the Coalition Provisional Authority. Some of the cash went to pay for projects and keep ministries afloat, but, incredibly, at least $9 billion has gone ... More About: Money , War , Billion
War costs may total $2.4 trillion
2007-10-24 17:59:00 Talk about a legacy. GWB may well be the great acronym-inal epithet for the next couple of generations, as in ‘Go GWB yourself.’ The cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could total $2.4 trillion through the next decade, or nearly $8,000 per man, woman and child in the country, according to a Congressional Budget ... More About: War , Total , Costs
Is chess a sport?
2007-10-24 17:51:00 “There is the odd country where there’s some lingering doubt whether chess is art or sport. Quite clearly it is a sport.” ? Viswanathan Anand, the number one-ranked chess player in the world and the winner last month of the World Chess Championship in Mexico City. Is it? Is chess a sport? Shouldn’t you have to ... More About: Entertainment , Culture , Sport
California Fires: BBC is on it
2007-10-24 17:37:00 Is there a better news website than BBC? Take the dreadful fires in Southern Calif ornia . Wildfires force California exodus. Look how the BBC has covered it: the story with links to: ? how the fire fighters fight ? anecdotal impact from the fires ? detailed series of maps ? other stories ? pictorial essay ? an appeal those involved to contact ... More About: Media , Journalism , Fires
Baseball: unwatchable inequities
2007-10-24 16:38:00 The Colorado Rockies will trot onto the field tonight representing a total payroll of $54. The Boston Red Socks line up with a $143 million. Put another way, the Rockies shortstop makes $381,000; the Sock’s shortstop fields $8.25. When baseball starts a new season in the spring the vast majority of teams will have absolutely no chance ... More About: Sports , Baseball
Middle Ages Tech Support
2007-10-23 17:55:00 This really is terrific: YouTube - Middle Ages Tech Support More About: Humour , Tech Support
Worst job in the world: Monitoring Glenn Beck
2007-10-23 17:42:00 Now here is a job no sane person should ever accept ? “Starting today,” writes Jason Linkins in the Huffington Post, “we are going to be turning our attention to Glenn Beck and his outrageous verbiage. This is a bigger job than any one person can handle. So if you notice anything that Beck says or ... More About: Entertainment , World , The World
Making it on Wikipedia
2007-10-23 17:14:00 You haven’t really made it until you get your own page on Wikipedia . That’s the bad news. The good news is that there are now 224,785 biographies of living people on the site, up from 177,512 in January and 93,392 in January 2006. And those biographies get read. Wikipedia is the eighth most-visited U.S. destination on ... More About: Internet
The price of the corn alternative to oil may be too high
2007-10-23 17:06:00 The significant problems with corn as an alternative to oil are starting to become evident. Here are three, from a Christian Science Monitor editorial entitled Halt the gold rush to corn fuel 1. the use of corn to produce ethanol could cause considerable harm to water quality and supply, according to a report this month from the ... More About: Environment , Alternative , Corn , Price , High
Saving NYC one tail pipe at a time
2007-10-23 16:39:00 Tom Friedman has an interesting column Save the Planet: Vote Smart on how NYC got green by changing the taxi fleet to hybids. If it can happen there, it can happen anywhere. People often ask: I want to get greener, what should I do? New light bulbs? A hybrid? A solar roof? Well, all of those ... More About: Environment , Time , Saving , Tail , Pipe
Bill Maher and the come-back
2007-10-21 19:20:00 How good is Bill Maher ’s wit? More About: Humour , Back
Is the War on Terror giving war a bad name?
2007-10-21 18:58:00 ‘The War on ?’ was first coined in the US as a catchy call to action, a la all The Wars on ? drugs and poverty and crime, three battles that have long since been miserably lost. Then the War on Terror was used as an excuse to whip up fear to get the just plain ... More About: War On Terror , Giving
Palestinians? Lives Invisible to Israelis
2007-10-21 17:37:00 One man’s observations after a trip to Palestine and Israel . Palestinians ? Lives Invisible to Israelis by Edward Mast On a visit to Tel Aviv last month, I asked some Israeli friends what people in Israel were saying about the Palestinian situation. Not much, they told me. Israelis are more concerned about the corruption charges against Prime Minister Ehud ... More About: Politics
So, what?s up with Haditha?
2007-10-21 17:27:00 Read it and weep: The facts that are not in dispute are these: On November 19, 2005, after an IED attack that killed one of them, Marines from Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Regiment killed 24 people. The first killed were five men in a car who stopped, got out, and then were mown down. Afterwards, ... More About: War , Haditha
Worldwide Press Freedom Index 2007
2007-10-21 17:12:00 The Reporters Without Borders Annual Worldwide Press Freedom Index - 2007 Outside Europe - in which the top 14 countries are located - no region of the world has been spared censorship or violence towards journalists. Of the 20 countries at the bottom of the index, seven are Asian (Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Laos, Vietnam, China, Burma, and ... More About: Journalism
War on terror: best understood not as a war but as a sprawling new economy
2007-10-21 16:58:00 God Naomi Klein is good: Put simply, if any given job can?t be outsourced, it can?t be done. This philosophy, so central to the Bush years, explains statistics like this one: In 2003, the U.S. government handed out 3,512 contracts to companies to perform domestic security functions, from bomb detection to data mining. In the 22-month period ... More About: War On Terror , Terrorism , Economy , Terror , War
Mac OS X Leopard - The Guided Tour
2007-10-21 01:56:00 Mac OS X Leopard - Guid ed Tour More About: Technology , MAC OS X
Toastmasters speech ?On the Perils of Writing a Book?
2007-10-20 19:40:00 Here is a Toastmasters speech I gave last night ? On the perils of writing a book There is no greater crap-shoot than writing a book. I know. I wrote one. But why? Why did I bother? I ask myself that all the time, sometimes bolt upright in bed at 4 in the morning. Why did I ... More About: Entertainment , Books , Writing , Book , Speech
Blackwater steals Iraqi Military Planes
More articles from this author:2007-10-20 19:21:00 No wonder the Iraqi ‘government’ wants to see the last of Blackwater. Blackwater USA tried to take at least two Iraqi military aircraft out of Iraq two years ago and refused to give the planes back when Iraqi officials sought to reclaim them, according to a congressional committee investigating the private security contractor. Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., ... More About: Military , War , Corporations , Steals 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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