Facebook: Despite Concerns, The Buzz Goes On
Despite privacy concerns and complaints about sexual predators (about which Facebook has decided not to do anything and is now being investigated), the Facebook buzz machine is going strong, valuating the company at $10 billion.
New Digg Spamming Technique: Shout = Spam
With the new Digg Interface they obviously tried to make it easier to interact with friends and to send messages, ahem, shouts, I mean SPAM messages to other users.Or is it just me that has been receiving tons of Shouts like the following:
Hi, what do you think of think?
http://digg.com/story_some_spammer_wants_me_to_digg
Been there, done that: Goosen ready to do it again
Two television cameramen, five photographers and a quartet of sportswriters laid in wait outside the ropes that framed the ninth green at The Royal Montreal Golf Club, though. The solitude of this sunny, breezy, autumn afternoon was over.
Ahmadinejad speaks; outrage and controversy follow
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday challenged a university audience to look into “who was truly involved” in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, defended his right to question established Holocaust history and denied there were gay Iranians.
Monks relaunch protests in Myanmar
Tens of thousands of Buddhist monks defied orders from the military junta to stay out of politics, relaunching mass protests Tuesday in the country’s two biggest cities.
30 Reasons to Quit Smoking
The funniest ones include:
“Your non smoker friends, wife/husbands, business associates will stop complaining about you being a chimney”, “You will make it to old with all your teeth”, “You will make it to old”, “Your skin won’t look like Freddy Kruegers”
Extract silver from ore, win $10,000,000
Barrick Gold has a problem. It’s got a whop of silver in Argentina, but it’s tapped in silica-encapsulated ore. If you can “unlock the value” — ie figure out a way to economically boost their current 6.7 per cent recovery rate — they’ll give you a cool $10 mil. Kinda like the X Prize, only underground.
The IP Mystery: How police track your online activity
Law enforcement agencies already have the means to track the online activities of suspicious Internet Protocol addresses – in fact, many talented hackers can do the same thing — but what authorities lack is a fast and legal method of attaching a name to those IP numbers.
Iraqi youth fear departure of U.S. troops – CNN.com
U.S. troops should stay in Iraq to keep ethnic violence from spiraling out of control, but they shouldn’t stay too long, according to a panel of Iraqi youth convened by CNN.
Four Officers Shot, Massive Manhunt Under Way – News Story – WPLG Miami
A massive manhunt is under way after four Miami-Dade police officers were shot after a traffic stop at a Southwest Miami-Dade apartment complex.
