Amnesty International has criticised China’s execution of 53-year-old Briton Akmal Shaikh, who was convicted of drug smuggling by the Chinese authorities, as a “slap in the face” of the international community. The NGO also called on Beijing to fulfill its human rights commitments by abolishing the death penalty. According to Amnesty, of the 2,400 executions… Read More »
Dana Hanna, a computer programmer from Maryland interrupted his own wedding vows to update his Facebook page. Watch the faux pas committed by this wedding twit in the video below. What’s next? Tweeting a funeral? Sometimes you have to live your life instead of commenting on it. Related post:I know what you did last minute
Internet access here in China is severely restricted again. I wonder if this has to do with the upcoming Golden Week holidays. Perhaps the authorities is trying to limit negative news during this period of national celebration. But at what cost? People who wants to read alternative views will find ways to access such materials,… Read More »
Ray Kurzweil, the famous “futurist” who has made some ludicrously inaccurate predictions, sent an angry letter to Newsweek magazine to try and clear his name. (I wonder if he will do the same if he comes across this post: The scary thing about Ray Kurzweil) Here is an excerpt: I appreciate your bringing my ideas… Read More »
My blog has magically reappeared, having gone AWOL for almost a week. Because of this, the pagerank for my blog has gone down to 0. Bloody hell! Also, it seems that the people at Blogger can login to your account without your knowledge and forcibly remove widgets and the underlying HTML codes. So much for… Read More »
Do you have what it takes to be a tobacco executive? Check out the 7-section Flash video on thetruth.com to find out. Or play games such as “Urea Collector”, “Tough Love” and “Addictor Click”. The site uses a bunch of interesting content to combat the slick advertising employed by Big Tobacco and show how cigarette… Read More »