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Floor Collapses During Weight Watchers Group Meeting

By robert | Jan 15th, 2010 @ 3:58 pm

Weight Watchers diet program

In a clinic in Vaxjo, Sweden. Neighboring Atkins clinic believed (by author) to be… »

Prince Torturer Acquitted in UAE

By robert | 01/11/2010 9:32 am
Sheikh Issa bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the Poor Victim of Blackmail

United Arab Emirates Prince Sheikh Issa bin Zayed al-Nahyan was found innocent of torture that was filmed on… »

Joel on Software

By robert | 11/28/2009 12:06 am
Joel on Software: and on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity

In this book, Joel Spolsky is an iconoclast par excellence. He relentlessly refutes many of the absurdly sacred tenants that are touted by many software developers as absolute truths, in his down-to-earth tell-it-like-it-is… »


“Stand Up For The 70 Percent Of Americans Who Aren’t Crazy”

By robert | 09/13/2009 10:37 am
Bill Maher (AP)

Bill Maher, from his show Real Time sends a message out to President Obama: “The Democrats just never learn. Americans don’t really care which side of an issue you’re on… »

WP Hide Post: Wordpress Plugin

By robert | 07/14/2009 12:27 am | 91

The WP Hide Post plugin enables the author to write posts/pages that are hidden on the homepage, feeds and/or other places, but still visible to search engines. This is a… »

Hamas Manipulates Amnesty International

By robert | 07/2/2009 9:32 pm
Palestinians, Who Presumably Survived the War, Manipulating a Gullible Amnesty International Investigator. (Image source: AFP - http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jc0DHbDsRG83m4stW9JdpHz3hxSw)

Hamas has manipulated Amnesty International investigators to believe that Israel committed war crimes in… »

Peace Love Equality: The Seattle Gay Pride Parade 2009

By robert | 07/2/2009 12:04 am
A Bystander in the Seattle Gay Pride 2009

This year’s Gay Pride Parade in Seattle was a wonderful display of diversity and freedom of expression. Here’s a collection of… »

Fremont Solstice Parade 2009

By robert | 06/23/2009 12:19 am
Fremont, Seattle, the Center of the Universe

The Fremont Solstice parade is world famous for its Naked Cyclists that open the procession every year. Here are some photos from 2009’s… »

Carter in Gaza: Palestinians Being Treated Like Animals

By robert | 06/16/2009 7:53 am
Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States (picture from Wikipedia)

A quote from Jimmy Carter in his latest Gaza visit: “the citizens of Palestine are treated more like animals than like human… »

900GB USB Drive

By robert | 05/19/2009 7:12 pm | 12
USB 2.0 with 900GB of Storage

A friend of mine went to China recently and brought back a SONY, VAIO-branded USB 2.0 drive with a startling 900GB… »

“An Apple a Day” is Now on Kindle

By robert | 05/15/2009 9:17 am
An Apple a Day - Kindle Edition

You can now subscribe to and read your favorite blog, An Apple a Day, on your Kindle!!… »

Wolfram|Alpha Computational Search Engine

By robert | 05/14/2009 8:00 am
Mathematica for the laymen

Wolfram|Alpha, a “Computational Search Engine”, will launch on May 18, giving people access to a wealth of “computable” facts and algorithms. It takes queries in simple English and produces all… »

“Buddy Christ” is Finally For Real

By robert | 05/13/2009 5:33 pm
New Sculpture of Jesus in Jeans was recently unveiled in East Sussex, England

A new Sculpture of “Jesus in Jeans” was recently unveiled in East Sussex, England, “depicting Christ as a man of the 21st… »

Google Maps Alphabet

By robert | 05/12/2009 10:14 am
Sites Showing Letters of the Alphabet

An interesting effort from Australia to locate the 26-letter English alphabet on Google… »

Google Goats

By robert | 05/10/2009 10:04 am
Goats Grazing outside the Googleplex

Google Inc. has hired 200 goats to graze its fields to eat grass and weeds and to fertilize the soil as a low-carbon alternative to mowing… »

High Tide Heels

By robert | 05/5/2009 11:45 am
Original High Tide Heels designed by Belgian artist Paul Schietekat in 2006

A new fashion seems to be picking up for beach footwear where high heel shoes are combined with flippers for fashion-conscious divers out there. Any possible uses other than in… »

Go Chrome… and Never Look Back

By robert | 05/3/2009 11:44 pm

Once I tried the Google Chrome browser I was impressed with its speed and lightweight impact on the system resources. In spite of the essential features that it still lacks,… »

From UAE with Love…

By robert | 04/30/2009 10:07 pm

“A video tape smuggled out of the United Arab Emirates shows a member of the country’s royal family mercilessly torturing a man with whips, electric cattle prods and wooden planks… »

Why Jane Fonda Is Banned in Beirut – WSJ.com

By robert | 04/30/2009 5:53 pm
Beirut: World Book Capital City 2009

A very intriguing article by William Marling, a visiting professor of American Studies at the American University of Beirut, relating how books and other media are systematically banned in Lebanon… »

What in the World is a Stupid Fact?

By robert | 04/30/2009 4:34 pm

Who decides what is “stupid” and what is not? Who decides who the Web should cater for? Who says what should appear on the Web and what is “meaningless” to… »

Wold Digital Library… a Good Start

By robert | 04/29/2009 11:41 pm
World Digital Library Main Geo-Timeline Browsing View

The World Digital Library website opened as promised on April 21st. It features a very elegant and more or less intuitive user interface. The content is scarce for now, but… »