Sealand, a tiny 550 sq ft micronation is up for sale. From ABC news Australia (original article): “A former World War II fort in the North Sea off England, which was settled 40 years ago and declared a state with its own self-proclaimed royal family, is up for sale. The Times newspaper reports the tiny…
From Slashdot: “Wikipedia has blocked the entire country of Qatar from editing pages. Whilst the ban is due to spam-abuse coming from the IP address in question, the fact that this belongs to the country’s sole high-speed internet provider has the unintended consequence of stopping Qatarese from editing the wiki. The ban has raised concerns…
More Pictures Here! We adopt a pit bull from New York Animal Care & Control today, and just happen that the Fox 5 news are there doing a story about a potential pit bull ban in NYC, so you know what, out of nowhere I am on the news being interviewed on the reasons to…
From Charity Navigation: These 10 charities are not living up to their missions. Each spends more than 50% of its budget paying for-profit fundraising professionals to solicit your hard-earned money. They are ranked by the percentage of their total functional expenses spent on professional fundraising fees. As a result, very little of the charity’s spending…
The Story Of Weeping Camel– This unique documentary follows a Mongolian camel that’s rejected her newborn white colt. Throughout her difficult delivery, the camel is aided by a family of shepherds, who instantly notice the mother’s rejection and make valiant efforts to warm the mother to her child. Now, all hope lies with the family’s…
Mevlevi Order (Whirling Dervishes)– The Sufi Dervishes Sema ceremony. Summer Grass Winter Insect– what Tibetans called Yartsa Gunbu. Feral Hogs Hunting– get rid of these smart, huge pest. Pacific Crest Trail– maybe one day I will thru-hike this 2650 mile trail. Rainbow Technology– store 256GB on a A4 size paper. Build My Own Cabin– for…
In NY Times today there’s a very interesting article about Ray Kurzweil is creating a stock-picking computer using A.I.. Check this out: A Smarter Computer to Pick Stocks by CHARLES DUHIGG from the article: Studies estimate that a third of all stock trades in the United States were driven by automatic algorithms last year, contributing…
Go and get it, among all the improvements, here’s a few very useful ones, more info click here. Built-in phishing protection: Phishing Protection warns users when they encounter suspected Web forgeries, and offers to return the user to their home page. Phishing Protection is turned on by default, and works by checking sites against either…
Alright, its been a while that I wanna see a unknown show so bad that it makes me so hungry. In Cooking In Danger Zone, host Stefan Gates visits Afganistan and eat “Afgan Viagra” with a former Taliban commander, goes to North Uganda and eat with refugees and experiences how they live on rations provided…
One of my favourite artists and my very good friend Marc Horowitz just did a short film for Nissan Sentra. I saw it tonight while I am eating dinner at home and I almost spray my semi-chewed rice in a projectile way. I can’t believe it! We are so happy for you, Congradulation Burt Dulet!!!…
