Listen to Arundhati Roy, reciting the horrors and torments befallen on the poor population of India.
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India: Field Notes on Democracy
Support the Israeli Apartheid Week in your City
The sixth Israeli Apartheid Week is upon us starting March 1st. Support this moral cause to end apartheid in Israel and the occupied territories.
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Floor Collapses During Weight Watchers Group Meeting
In a clinic in Vaxjo, Sweden. Neighboring Atkins clinic believed (by author) to be involved.
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Prince Torturer Acquitted in UAE
United Arab Emirates Prince Sheikh Issa bin Zayed al-Nahyan was found innocent of torture that was filmed on video.
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Joel on Software
In this book, Joel Spolsky is an iconoclast par excellence. He relentlessly refutes many of the absurdly sacred tenants that are touted by many software developers as absolute truths,...
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“Stand Up For The 70 Percent Of Americans Who Aren’t Crazy”
Bill Maher, from his show Real Time sends a message out to President Obama: "The Democrats just never learn. Americans don't really care which side of an issue you're...
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WP Hide Post: WordPress Plugin
The WP Hide Post plugin enables the author to write posts/pages that are hidden on the homepage, feeds and/or other places, but still visible to search engines. This is...
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Hamas Manipulates Amnesty International
Hamas has manipulated Amnesty International investigators to believe that Israel committed war crimes in Gaza.
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Peace Love Equality: The Seattle Gay Pride Parade 2009
This year's Gay Pride Parade in Seattle was a wonderful display of diversity and freedom of expression. Here's a collection of photos.
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Fremont Solstice Parade 2009
The Fremont Solstice parade is world famous for its Naked Cyclists that open the procession every year. Here are some photos from 2009's parade.
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Carter in Gaza: Palestinians Being Treated Like Animals
A quote from Jimmy Carter in his latest Gaza visit: "the citizens of Palestine are treated more like animals than like human beings"
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900GB USB Drive
A friend of mine went to China recently and brought back a SONY, VAIO-branded USB 2.0 drive with a startling 900GB capacity.
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“An Apple a Day” is Now on Kindle
You can now subscribe to and read your favorite blog, An Apple a Day, on your Kindle!! Enjoy!
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Wolfram|Alpha Computational Search Engine
Wolfram|Alpha, a "Computational Search Engine", will launch on May 18, giving people access to a wealth of "computable" facts and algorithms. It takes queries in simple English and produces...
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“Buddy Christ” is Finally For Real
A new Sculpture of "Jesus in Jeans" was recently unveiled in East Sussex, England, "depicting Christ as a man of the 21st century"
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Google Maps Alphabet
An interesting effort from Australia to locate the 26-letter English alphabet on Google Maps.
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Google Goats
Google Inc. has hired 200 goats to graze its fields to eat grass and weeds and to fertilize the soil as a low-carbon alternative to mowing lawn.
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High Tide Heels
A new fashion seems to be picking up for beach footwear where high heel shoes are combined with flippers for fashion-conscious divers out there. Any possible uses other than...
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Go Chrome… and Never Look Back
Once I tried the Google Chrome browser I was impressed with its speed and lightweight impact on the system resources. In spite of the essential features that it still...
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From UAE with Love…
"A video tape smuggled out of the United Arab Emirates shows a member of the country's royal family mercilessly torturing a man with whips, electric cattle prods and wooden...
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Why Jane Fonda Is Banned in Beirut – WSJ.com
A very intriguing article by William Marling, a visiting professor of American Studies at the American University of Beirut, relating how books and other media are systematically banned in...
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What in the World is a Stupid Fact?
Who decides what is "stupid" and what is not? Who decides who the Web should cater for? Who says what should appear on the Web and what is "meaningless"...
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Wold Digital Library… a Good Start
The World Digital Library website opened as promised on April 21st. It features a very elegant and more or less intuitive user interface. The content is scarce for now,...
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Sacking of the Prodigal Priest
The priest who went wild with his parish's checkbook.
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