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02 Dec

PPC Songbird 1.0pre for MacOS X 10.5 - Thomas Legg’s Geek Blog

PPC Songbird 1.0pre for MacOS X 10.5 - Thomas Legg’s Geek Blog: “PPC Songbird 1.0pre for MacOS X 10.5″ (…) It’s been about a month and a half since my last post of a Songbird PPC build. Lots of work has been done on the app including a new icon. In preparation for the 1.0 [...]
29 Nov

Srebrenica Genocide Blog: VIDEO: LOST IMAGES OF SREBRENICA GENOCIDE

Wall in Sarajevo (by kitestramrt) Srebrenica Genocide Blog: VIDEO: LOST IMAGES OF SREBRENICA GENOCIDE: “In July 1995, Serbian journalist Zoran Petrovic filmed the Srebrenica genocide unfolding, and then he attempted to cover up the evidence by cutting out and erasing important scenes.” (…) Key scenes from Petrovic’s rushes were ‘lost’ or blacked over, presumably to prevent reprisals. [...]
25 Nov

The black swan

Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: “Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1960) (Arabic: نسيم نيقولا نجيب طالب‎) (alternative spellings of first name: Nessim or Nissim) is a literary essayist, epistemologist, polymath, scholar of randomness and knowledge, researcher, and former practitioner of mathematical finance” (Via Wikipedia.)
21 Nov

Michael Schwartz: Will The Slaughter Of Iraqis By The US Military Ever Be Reported?

US patrol in Iraq (labanex) Michael Schwartz: Will The Slaughter Of Iraqis By The US Military Ever Be Reported?: “Will The US Government And Media Finally Report The Slaughter Of Iraqis By The US Military? I recently received a set of questions from Le Monde Diplomatique reporter Kim Bredesen about the 2007 Project Censored story about 1,000,000 [...]
20 Nov

Worst car of the millennium?

Yugo Rear Logo (bart_hulsbosch) Serbia’s Yugos get souped-up: “The last ever Yugo car rolls off the production line in Serbia on 20 November 2008. Often ridiculed, the car had been one of the cheapest in the world and was also the most famous export from the former Yugoslavia.” (Via BBC News.)
19 Nov

Belgrade in the LIFE archive

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19 Nov

LIFE photo archive online

Neaples, photo by Margaret Bourke-White, LIFE 10,000,000 pictures from the LIFE’s archive are now online and hosted by Google.
18 Nov

New Kosova Report - Roma children dying of lead poisoning

New Kosova Report - Roma children dying of lead poisoning: “(…) Two hours from here by plane, in Eastern Europe, are two death camps, mainly for children under the age of six years. If these children don’t die by the age of six, they will have irreversible brain damage for the rest of their short lives.  These [...]
17 Nov

Global Economy Matters: As Italy Enters It’s Fourth Recession Since 2000, Who Will Bail-Out Unicredit?

Italy long term GDP Global Economy Matters: As Italy Enters It’s Fourth Recession Since 2000, Who Will Bail-Out Unicredit?: “Italy, which is still the eurozone’s third biggest economy, slipped into a recession in the third quarter. The Italian economy fell into what is now its fourth recession in less than a decade as gross domestic product [...]