As some of you may have heard, Google Wave started its first ‘wave’ of beta testing. Wednesday September 30, Google sent out over 100,000 preview invitations to developers, businesses, universities, and early bird beta testers who signed up first. Some of these users were even encouraged to nominate other people to receive early invitations, because Google Wave is much more useful when someone you know is using it too. Read the rest of this entry »
A group of female skiers – both professional and amateur – have banded together to collaborate on a project that will raise awareness for breast cancer; a disease that affects one in nine women. Read the rest of this entry »
Unlike the Predator and Reaper drones which are remotely operated, the UCAS is designed from the ground up to be autonomous.
Dunno just how clued-in you are to these devices; essentially they are simply unmanned american aircraft carrying a cheap explosive designed to cause as much damage as possible, at the lowest dollar cost, in a most cowardly way.
You be the judge. I was asked to appear on a UK / satellite television program to compete head to head with a hypnotist to see who could find out a user’s password fastest. I think you will agree, there is only one quick way to do it, become a hacker!
(One of the interesting things I learnt about television, is that even saying “You cannot use this information – it is private and confidential – they still film it secretly from a distance and put it on TV
Under pressure from the music and film industries, France had pushed hard for tough measures against illegal downloaders. French President Nicolas Sarkozy had advocated a “three strikes and you’re out” rule, under which Internet use would be tracked and users caught downloading would be warned twice before their Internet access would be cut off for a year. Britain is also considering such a move, lawmakers said. Read the rest of this entry »
As of May 2009, there were 280,000 Israelis living in 121 settlements in the West Bank, and 190,000 in East Jerusalem. Settlements range in their character from farming communities to suburbs to frontier villages, and, in the case of East Jerusalem, city neighborhoods.
The United Nations and other major international bodies consider the settlements a violation of international law, though this is disputed by Israel and some legal scholars.
The lady is waiting for truth to be found
As all her sentiments stumble around
Like a little tin soldier beats his little tin drum, Her heart palpitates to the heat from his sun
Sometimes she lights her birthday cake
And she waits…and she waits, for pity’s sake
Sometimes she throws homemade bread in the lake
The swans turn their grace in disgust with distaste Read the rest of this entry »
"The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered ( moved, seconded carried and minuted ) in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices"
-- C.S. Lewis [1898-1963]
in The Screwtape Letters
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The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde
'Her dress was split to the frontiers of decency and was so tight you could see what she was thinking"
-- Sebastian Horsley
"Love the life you live. Live the life you love." -- Bob Marley
"I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some, people out there in our nation don't have maps and, uh, I believe that our, uh, education like such as, uh, South Africa and, uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and, I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, or, uh, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future, for our children." -- Miss South Carolina Teen USA 2007
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
-- Steve Jobs
'Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions"
-- Edgar Cayce
As I Turn Up The Collar On My Favourite Winter Coat, This Wind
Is Blowin' My Mind. I See The Kids In The Street, With Not Enough To Eat - Who Am I, To Be Blind? Pretending Not To See Their Needs.
-- Michael Jackson
"Every day, in every little way, Scientology is changing me for the better." -- Susan Meister on 01/09/1971
On 06/25/71 she was found with a bullet in her head.
'Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable' --Sydney J. Harris
"You must have LONG term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures."
-- Charles C. Noble
watching today's feeder goldfish orient themselves before becoming LUNCH... and u think your day is going badly ;-) (i am SUCH an evil fuck) 23 hours ago
Bumping my e-mail spam filter all the way up to TALIBAN! Hate wasting time when i could be reading your mail. Made a $mall donation anyway.. 2 days ago