The American election is but over and decided. Junior Senator Barak Obama from Illinois has won and will be the 44th President starting January 2009. He has defeated a much older John McCain.
I’ve been reading peoples blogs, posts and comments surrounding his win over the past couple of hours (and indeed, also received several text [...]
Why are there 12 jurors in a jury?
Why are there 12 zodiac signs in the heavens?
Why is 12 used as a unit of measure for trade?
Why is 12 a natural number?
Why are there 12 hours in a day?
Why did Jacob have 12 sons?
Why did Israel have 12 Tribes?
Why are there 12 months in a year?
Why [...]
Came across this article today, and it is kind of funny. I don’t know how much validity there is to it, but it does make one ponder.
That is the claim of psychologists who have found that tapping away on a mobile phone or computer keypad or checking them for electronic messages temporarily knocks up to [...]
My friends all laugh at me when I claim that Google freaks the poop out of me. The knowledge that Google has is immense… I mean really huge. Big. Vast. A lot. I claim that if the folks at Google were to be developing some type of AI, they basically have all the material at [...]
Came across this link on reddit today, and had to shake my head because I thought I read it wrong. From the first paragraph: “The Recording Industry Association of America is suing usenet.com, decrying it as the next Napster, Kazaa and other peer-to-peer, illicit file-sharing sites.”
Usenet is basically a general purpose distributed message board. It [...]
I somewhat agree with this article in that Al Gore winning the Peace Prize makes a mockery of the Peace Prize. I looked into who he was up against, but the Prize rules state the names of the individuals and organizations are kept private. However, there were 181 nominations for the 2007 Peace Prize, and [...]
I read an article in the New York Daily News that Al Gore was one of the winners (with IPCC) of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such [...]
Lately, the thoughts of the dominating western (European) culture and ideals vs the rest (Africa, South American, Eastern etc..) have been swimming around in my mind. A friend was telling me yesterday that in California you can buy an iPod in a vending machine – and that particular consumer good has now come to the [...]
As I signed out of Hotmail, for a brief second, the MSN main page splashed across the monitor as the browser closed itself. And for that brief moment in time, my eye caught the headline which they had on the front page. The funny thing is, that even though it was such a small slice [...]