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 [...]
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. [...]
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.)
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 [...]
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.)
Neaples, photo by Margaret Bourke-White, LIFE
10,000,000 pictures from the LIFE’s archive are now online and hosted by Google.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Correlation between the results of the recent presidential election and the cotton centres in 1860s
330 - From Pickin’ Cotton to Pickin’ Presidents: “ I received an overlay of both maps from Mark Root-Wiley: ‘The borders do not line up perfectly but came closer than I thought they would. The top layer had to be made semitransparent in [...]
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