Call it The Bold & the Beautiful. Today Blackberry holding company Research in Motion (RIM) announced the Blackberry Bold, its sleekest, strongest most Apple-esque smartphone ever. If looks could kill, Apple’s iPhone might be a likely victim. And clearly the iPhone is in RIM’s sights. The new Blackberry Bold has the sharpest visual display ever, […]
Ecuador: A Weekend of Free Software Throughout the Country
by Milton Ramirez Throughout Latin America the “Latin American Festival of Installation of Free Software” (FLISOL 2008) recently concluded. This event, which has been held since 2005, has as its main objective to promote the use of free software, presenting its philosophy, its scopes and development. During the event, the diverse local communities of free […]
Candidates Help Indiana Newspapers Steal Live TV Market
Could newspapers grab the live TV market? Hillary and Obama are proving it’s possible. It would seem that the outlook is grim for small American newspaper publishers. Print circulation continues its decline and classified ads are flooding to fast, free online platforms like Craigslist. But as Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama campaigned this week […]
Fake Torture Session Featured in New Amnesty Ad
A new advertisement by human rights organization Amnesty International is designed to horrify viewers–and persuade them that the so-called waterboarding ‘enhanced interrogation technique’ is nothing short of torture. The ad features a slow-motion depiction of water streaming down over the face and mouth of man strapped horizontally to a board. Malcolm Nance, an expert on […]
Torture
In Indonesia, they who ever at least been through this age will no how rude the securityman was. In 1965, after seven Ground Forces(ABRI/TNI-AD) generals were captured from their home and tortured to dead by PKI. Just a days after, their bodied were found with insane wound in the Lubang Buaya. About a week after […]
Symbol of Nepal’s National Unity: Diversity
For almost 240 years, political forces of Nepal had been reinforcing feudal monarchy as the greatest symbol of national unity. But feudal monarchy had been throttling democracy for the luxuries of a few elites, who never minded starving millions. When millions of Nepalis rose up against the hereditary Rana regime in 1950, the Rana rulers […]
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