I had to blog this.
PRAGUE- Czech top model Helena Houdova, who was arrested in Cuba last week while taking photographs of Havana’s slums, told journalist that she will display the pictures she took at an exhibition portraying the island not only as a tourist paradise but also as a land of political oppression. Houdova, [...]
Posted on February 12th, 2006 by pwyll
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It’s been fun, but I’ve decided to quit this blog. I have other things I need to do, and not enough time to do them. As it happens, my hosting plan was on an annual basis, and that year has run out. I’ll leave the blog up until the hosts shut it down.
Update: Can’t bring [...]
Posted on February 5th, 2006 by pwyll
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But let us not duck what that “I do not believe” really means. It means I do not believe that there is one God, Allah, or that Muhammad is His Prophet. It means I do not believe that Jesus is the way, the truth and the life, or that no man cometh to the Father [...]
Posted on February 4th, 2006 by pwyll
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Sony works hard to keep users from hacking PSP units they bought and paid for. Their motto: you bought it, we own it. Lego chose the road less traveled.
Within weeks of the original Mindstorms debut, a Stanford graduate student named Kekoa Proudfoot reverse engineered the RCX brick and posted all of his findings, including detailed [...]
Posted on February 4th, 2006 by pwyll
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Philippe Douste-Blazy, the French foreign minister, said: “It is not normal to caricature a whole religion as an extremist or terrorist movement.” But the extreme reaction to the cartoons “would suggest the caricaturists were right,” he added.
news.telegraph
But here is what the US State Department had to offer.
America sided with tens of thousands of Muslims who [...]
Posted on February 3rd, 2006 by pwyll
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