“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” - Henry Miller
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your [...]
Archive for March, 2008
On Travel - Inspirational Quotes
Posted in Uncategorized on March 15, 2008 | No Comments »
π
Posted in Uncategorized on March 15, 2008 | No Comments »
Pi(π) appears where you least expect it.
Coincidentally, Pi Day is also the birthday of Albert Einstein, who no doubt knew more than a little about pi. Pi Day celebrants, usually children with an enthusiastic teacher and a varying degree of personal interest in the subject, learn about pi, circles, and, if they’re lucky, eat [...]
Iranian Gay Teen Faces Hanging In Iran As Britain Denies Asylum
Posted in Uncategorized on March 15, 2008 | No Comments »
“According to human rights organizations more than 4,000 gay men and women have been hanged in Iran since the revolution in 1979. Homosexuality is considered illegal in Iran.”
clipped from www.scoop.co.nz
The flight that will take young Medhi Kazemi
from Amsterdam to London, from where he will be deported to
Iran, is booked for tuesday february 26th. [...]
World’s oldest animation, 5,200 years old
Posted in Uncategorized on March 12, 2008 | No Comments »
clipped from timpanogos.wordpress.com
Film showing images from a 5,200-year old bowl from an ancient burial site in Iran.
An Italian team of archaeologists unearthed the bowl in the 1970s from a burial site in Iran’s Burnt City, but it was only recently that researchers noticed the images on the bowl tell an animated visual story.
The [...]
Ten Tips for Business Blogging
Posted in Uncategorized on March 7, 2008 | No Comments »
clipped from technology.inc.com
Create good, solid RSS feeds for newsreader syndication.
clipped from technology.inc.com
Ensure that your blog page design works on — [...]
Malaysian Police Oppression in Pregnant DAP Candidate
Posted in Uncategorized on March 6, 2008 | No Comments »
(Media Conference Statement (2) by DAP Ipoh Timor parliamentary candidate Lim Kit Siang at Ipoh Timor Ops Centre on Wednesday, 5th March 2008)
clipped from blog.limkitsiang.com
Watch Video
IGP should suspend Segamat OCPD for using force on seven-month pregnant woman DAP candidate in Labis to demonstrate police respect for women dignity and rights.
The Johore police [...]
History’s greatest replies
Posted in Uncategorized on March 4, 2008 | No Comments »
“All of them—along with many, many hundreds more—appear in my Viva la Repartee book.”
Pope John XXIII
One of the few pontiffs in history with a rich sense of humor, Pope John XXIII once reported to an interviewer that important problems would frequently come to mind in the middle of the night, disturbing his sleep. Half [...]
Twenty science fiction novels that may change your life
Posted in Uncategorized on March 3, 2008 | No Comments »
Cryptonomicon (2000), by Neal StephensonThe Mount (2002), by Carol EmschwillerPerdido Street Station (2002), by China MievilleDown and Out in the Magic Kingdom (2003), by Cory DoctorowPattern Recognition (2003), by William GibsonNewton’s Wake (2004), by Ken MacLeodGlasshouse (2006), by Charles Stross
clipped from io9.com
there’s no better way to get ready for the seasonal change than [...]
