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Turban, Machine gun, Obama and Osama

By ShamsJuly 15, 20081 commentCulturefight the smears, Michelle Obama, New Yorker, Senator Barack Obama

American flag is in the fireplace – burning, not the portrait of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson or Abraham Lincoln – it’s one of the world’s top known figure Bin Laden – Laden’s portrait is hanging from the wall, Michelle Obama looks like on her way to Jihad (against whom??) and the turban-wearing (Muslim) Senator Obama giving her wife a huge feedback. Is there anything missing? May be not, but this cartoon was the Sunday cover illustration of the New Yorker magazine.

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Solar energy – new tech, low cost

By ShamsJuly 13, 2008ScienceMarc Baldo, MIT, Seville, solar energy, Solar tower in Spain

The idea is simple. Sunrays will hit the painted glass, the dyes will capture (absorb) the rays and will bounce it out to the edges of the glass where the tiny solar cells await the supply. And the house or factory owners are happy as they will not bear any bad name as carbon dioxide emitters. 🙂

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Yahoo! BOSS, (no new face) but a new platform

By ShamsJuly 11, 2008TechnologyBOSS, new search platform, SearchMonkey, WebProNews

As Yahoo! will let developers to customize its web search, developers will get the possibility to dive deep into Yahoo!’s search technology.

This is the second approach of the Sunnyvale, California based company to more popularize its search technology development. Preceding this move, Yahoo! introduced ‘SearchMonkey’ that lets developers and site owners to customize how the searches would appear on their sites.

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Apology and view

By ShamsJuly 10, 2008CultureG8 Summit, Japan, President Bush, Silvio Berlusconi, White House

U.S President Bush met his friend and allay Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi in mid June while he was on Euro Tour. However, the biography distributed by the White House at the G8 Summit in Japan, labelled Berlusconi as one of the ‘most controversial leaders’ and Italy as very corrupted country. 🙂

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The Great Mosque of Djenne

By ShamsJuly 8, 20081 commentCulture, Holidays 'n Travelsdjenne, great mosque, Mali, UNESCO, World Heritage Site

The ‘Old Towns of Djenne’ is in UNESCO’s World Heritage Site list since 1988. It is one of 855 properties enlisted by the Organization till now. The Great Mosque of Djenne is the largest mud brick building on Earth and one of Mali’s most visited tourists places. (more…)

Monetizing your butt

By ShamsJuly 6, 2008Culturebutt competition, Sloggi

Well, while surfing internet you will find plenty of options where you can monetize from this or that. But a competition organised by underwear maker Sloggi offered the easiest way to get a good sum.

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Happiness:, peace and democracy

By ShamsJuly 5, 20082 commentsCultureDenamrk, happiest country, Happimeter, Matthieu Ricard

The survey had two questions.

In the first question you could say either you are very happy, rather happy, not very happy or not happy at all.

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Hair power, but if you don’t have….

By ShamsJuly 3, 2008Culturehair power, Rani Manchi

Hair is not only part of our beauty, it posses some extraordinary power as well.

Let’s look at the ‘hair power’ of Rani Manchi. She could pull a whole truck with her hair. However she was driven by a passion + a strong will power to prove her feat as record breaker.

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