Archive for March, 2008

Saudi Woman Killed For Chatting On Facebook

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Islam Surpasses Roman Catholicism As World

Monday, March 31st, 2008

The Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano announced yesterday that Islam has surpassed Roman Catholicism as the world’s largest religion.
Catholics accounted for 17.4 percent of the world population, a stable percentage, while Muslims were at 19.2 percent.
Monsignor Vittorio Formenti attributed the change to Muslim families having more children, while Catholics have tended towards fewer offspring.
When considering all [...]

Tetris Shelves

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Not Reading And The Destruction Of Culture

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Buy A Tree For The Rainforest And Watch It Grow

Friday, March 28th, 2008

The World In The Eyes Of The Media

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Above is a heat map of the world according to the attention each country gets in the New York Times’ coverage.
This is one of several heat maps developed in a project to indicate the regions that some of the major western media outlets, and the blogosphere, give more attention to.
These maps allow you to grasp several media [...]

Life: Priorities, Perspective & Balance

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Send A Message On Israel’s Illegal Wall

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

 
A really interesting idea using the illegal Israeli barrier wall to support local Palestinian businesses…
As Israel continues its illegal land grab of Palestinian territory, by caging in the West Bank, the controversial barrier wall has become more than just oppressive concrete slabs to some; it’s become an easel for various artists. Two Palestinians have come [...]

See-Saw To Power African Schools

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

A really creative and useful idea to help power African schools in a clean way…
A young inventor is hoping to tap the unbounded energy of children in a playground to power schools in Africa. 
Design student Daniel Sheridan has created a simple see-saw which generates enough electricity to light a classroom.
The device works by transferring the [...]

“Intellectual property” is a silly euphemism

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
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