Showing posts with label world. Show all posts
Showing posts with label world. Show all posts

Friday, October 19, 2007

No title for today.

China Suppresses US Based Search Engines
In a bold move by the Chinese Government, any searches directed at Google or Yahoo from a Chinese location were redirected to Chinese-owned Baidu search engine. This is seen as retaliation to Bush's message to end 'religious repression' in china. I havn't seen any news from Google's response to this, but I bet they are not happy.
Full Article Here

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The Spartans Are Coming
Lovers of the movie 300 beware! There is a spoof about to be released! If you liked Epic Movie or the Date Movie, this one looks just as good.
Here's the preview:

Meet the Spartans

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Friday, August 31, 2007

Today's Links

This is great, here you can find 43 uses for WD-40 that you probably didn't know before.

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Jars of Clay (yes they are still around!) started a campaign called Blood: Water Mission, which is an organization that is working on building wells in areas of Africa affected with AIDS. The website here is really well designed and has a map and photos of completed wells, along with news articles about them helping. Their '2 Weeks of Sacrifice' is a great idea to raise some money without dipping into your savings account.

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The changing weather in our world has cheese makers worried. According to the cheese makers in this article, the taste of cheese is changing due to changes in weather and because of that, changes in plant life around the fields. This isn't the first product that has changed due to the weather, and i'm sure its just the start of a long list.