The Spicegirls website has created a vote-poll style thing to vote for a city for them to play in. Everyone vote for Baghdad, Iraq (make sure the B is upper-case), you have to input an email, but don’t worry you can just put a fake one as you do not need to confirm it.
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A Photo Essay on Women in Afghanistan
26-Jul-07
For two years, Canadian photojournalist Lana Šlezi? crisscrossed Afghanistan—from Mazar-e-Sharif in the north to Kandahar in the south—to document these largely hidden realities.
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A vaccine that is capable of delivering a double whammy against AIDS-causing human immunodeficiency virus by both providing immunity against the infection while at the same time destroying cells infected by the virus is ready for clinical trials, a group of Russian researchers announced today…
I for one welcome our HIV eating overlords…
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Britain and France said on Friday they would push for the U.N. Security Council to quickly authorise thousands of troops and police for Darfur and told Khartoum to act fast on the crisis or face more sanctions.
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In Asia, scaffolding is made from bamboo because it’s strong, lightweight, and very flexible. It also looks ridiculously scary. Would you climb on any of this?
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“Honour killing” father gets 20 years
21-Jul-07
The father of a Kurdish woman tortured, raped and murdered in a “barbaric and callous” honour killing was jailed for at least 20 years on Friday. Banaz Mahmod’s father Mahmod Mahmod, 52, and her uncle Ari Mahmod, 51, who received a 23-year minimum sentence, were found guilty of murder last month.
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Asus low-end laptops to run Xandros
21-Jul-07
In early June, Asustek Computer and Intel announced at Computex Taipei that they would soon be releasing a low-end $199 subnotebook PC, the Asus Eee PC 701. It appears to be on schedule, and when it arrives in customers’ hands in late August or early September it will be running a variation of Xandros Desktop Linux.
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Starting at the end of 2009, these trains should be running at speeds of up to 250 km/h on a line connecting Moscow and St. Petersburg.
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In a brilliant lobbying move, the search company promises the government loads of cash in return for a better wireless Web.
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Jetson-Like Flying Car in Production
21-Jul-07
A flying car resembling what the Jetsons drove could show up soon at a dealership near you. Moller International, a company founded by a UC Davis professor devoted to developing a flying car, announced in a statement recently that it has begun production for its “Jetsons-like M200G Volantor, a small airborne, two passenger, saucer-shaped vehicle.
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Try to find all the services if you can!
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The GIMP has the power to bring more people to Open Source. First it will need to clean up it’s tarnished image to attract serous users. I’ve never been a Photoshop user but I find even the change from any photo editing software frustrating with it’s strange interface that doesn’t seem to be based on standard computer interface design at all.
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