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Padre (Father) Aldino Amato is an Italian missionary who has been working for 25 years in the schools of the Rosary Christian Hospital, a nonprofit charitable institution in the village of Rehmpur, near to the city of Okara in the Pakistani province of Punjab. In 2006, during a holiday in Italy, a friend suggested Amato publish in an Italian missionary newletter a request for all the things his schools needed but couldn’t find easily in Pakistan. The first item on that list was computers. A newsletter reader pointed Amato to Golem (Gruppo Operativo Linux EMpoli), an Italian Linux user group (LUG) founded in 2000 in Empoli, a Tuscan town about 30 kilometers west of Florence.
Golem is particularly active in the “trashware” sector; it collects and fixes thrown-away computers and gives them away, after installing Linux of course, to schools, nonprofit organizations, and other users. In 2004 Golem sent a few PCs to a school in Somalia and, later, others to schools in Benin and Cameroon.
When Amato discovered this, he immediately wrote to Golem:
I have more than 2,000 students from kindergarden to senior high and only one computer. I’d need at least 50 more, since Pakistani school regulations state that computer training should be at least 40 minutes every day. Can you help me? I’d really like to help my students learn new technologies.
No problem, answered Golem member Maurizio Pertici. In a few months the LUG managed to put together and ship to Rehmpur 43 computers complete with mouse, keyboard, and monitor, plus one eight-port hub, one modem, and four speakers. With the exception of a few machines where a hardware issue prevented it, Golem installed Edubuntu on them all.
Zardari met with Palin. Here are the excerpts from his brief conversation with Sarah Palin
Ever since Senator John McCain made Ms. Palin the first woman to serve on a Republican presidential ticket, pundits and politicians have been walking on eggshells for fear of saying anything about her that might come off as sexist. But in an exchange captured by television cameras, Ms. Palin was greeted by Asif Ali Zardari, the new president of Pakistan, and a delegation of Pakistani officials.
“I am honored to meet you,” Ms. Palin said.
“You are even more gorgeous than you are on the (inaudible),” Mr. Zardari said.
“You are so nice,” Ms. Palin replied. “Thank you.”
“Now I know why the whole of America is crazy about you,” Mr. Zardari continued. At which point an aide told the two to shake hands.
“I’m supposed to pose again,” Ms. Palin said.
“If he’s insisting,” Mr. Zardari said, “I might hug.”
Oktar, a household name in Turkey, has used hundreds of books, pamphlets and DVDs to contest Darwin’s theory of evolution. In 2006 his publishers sent out 10,000 copies of the Atlas of Creation, a lavish book rejecting evolution on every one of its 800 pages. Dawkins, one of the recipients, described the book as “preposterous”. On his website the British biologist and popular science writer said he was at “a loss to reconcile the expensive and glossy production values of this book with the breathtaking inanity of the content”. It is the third time Oktar and his associates have succeeded in blocking sites in Turkey. In August 2007 Oktar persuaded a court to block access to WordPress.com. His lawyers argued that blogs on the site contained libellous material that it was unwilling to remove. Last April he made a libel complaint about Google Groups, which was subsequently blocked.
The Hubble space telescope has found a new unidentified object in the middle of nowhere. Some are even suggesting that this could be a new class of object. Of course, without actually understanding more about it, the speculation seems a bit wild.
“The object also appeared out of nowhere. It just wasn’t there before. In fact, they don’t even know where it is exactly located because it didn’t behave like anything they know. Apparently, it can’t be closer than 130 light-years but it can be as far as 11 billion light-years away. It’s not in any known galaxy either. And they have ruled out a supernova too. It’s something that they have never encountered before. In other words: they don’t have a single clue about where or what the heck this thing is.”
WHAT’S it like to be a flight attendant these days? That’s what I’ve often found myself wondering as I sit in my seat, waiting impatiently as yet another flight is delayed and my connection threatened, while around me are passengers fighting with each other over the lack of space in the shared bin, or complaining about having been bumped from an earlier flight, or swearing “never again” to fly this specific airline because they have been stuck in a middle seat even though they booked their ticket six months ago.
And though the other flight attendants knew I was a ringer, the passengers did not. Thus I got a crash course in what airline personnel have to put up with these days — and, after just one day on the job, began to wonder why the phrase “air rage” is only applied to passengers.
Man’s Body Found 11 Months After Suicide
“Sohn seemed to have hung himself from a pipe in the kitchen, police said. The new owner, Kim, had mistaken the body for a mannequin twice before realizing that it was a dead body.”
Indian teenage suicide over black hole test:
“Chayya Lal, 16, from the central state of Madhya Pradesh, committed suicide after watching television reports on how the particle-smashing test in Geneva could bring about doomsday, Indian newspapers reported.”
one of the few websites that i actually sit and read rants from is a website by a unique individual who speaks of Homer and relates it to the current political construct across the globe. at the same time, he does so with a comedic tone unlike any other. it’s wonderful. similarly, speaking of manfredd mann and cold stone ice cream in the same paragraph is not easy to do, but the satire behind this young writer makes it wonderful to read. so when he left a note around here and said that this was one of his favourite blogs, i was much obliged. i wouldn’t think too much of being tagged or linked to, but coming from him it’s quite fun to note that i’ve been given the brilliante blog award.
now the rules of the game are as follows:
the purpose of the prize is to promote as many blogs as possible in the blogosphere (quad erat demonstradum).
when you receive the prize you must write a post showing it, together with the name of who has given it to you, and link them back.
choose a minimum of 7 blogs (or even more) that you find brilliant in their content or design.
show their names and links and leave them a comment informing they were prized with ‘brilliante weblog.’
show a picture of those who awarded you and those you give the prize (optional).
and then we pass it on!
so here goes nothing…
seems like the desi blogosphere is primarily comprised of people just linking to other desi blogs which really defeats the purpose of this exercise. so i suppose i might as well expand a bit further to some other sites that i read but i doubt they really know that i read them.
vleeptronz - for being an inquisitive planet where bob the new englander is only trying to learn more about planet earth with wiggly gif’s and molly ringwald
phd comics - for students everywhere, piled higher and deeper
the big picture - for helping me rediscover the joy of photography again
the google operating system - for reminding us that google has been developing an operating system since they formed ten years ago
Razer: Shit..DS is coming..
TriSpear: how do you know?
Wicked_Sword: The annoying n00b f00?
Razer: He just signed onto AIM..
EnergyWave: yeah…the kid who sucks at being a sader..
Wicked_Sword: Shit shit shit
Razer: Hide!!
* Razer is now known as Razer[Away]
* DevilsGrace is now known as DevilsGrace[Out]
* Wicked_Sword is now known as WS[Away]
* TriSpear is now known as Tri[Gone]
* Hampton is now known as Hampton[bbl]
* EnergyWave is now known as EnergyWave[afk]
* _Godly_Strike_ is now known as GS[bbiab]
Razer[Away]: >.>
* DarkShadows has joined #Saders
DarkShadows: hey evry1
DarkShadows: n e 1 wanna play w/ me
DarkShadows: dam..no 1 here..
* DarkShadows has Quit(Quit: User Exited)
Razer[Away]: w00t!
WS[Away]: I kinda feel bad for him..Now…He just got ditched by an entire channel…
a story about what may be one of the most important pieces of computer software ever written. make sure you see the embedded youtube video. even folks on slower connection, wait for it. it is awesome. especially concerning is that Apple did not reject it due to it being offensive, but instead rejected it due to “limited utility”
asif ali zardari writes in the washington post. rest assured, it’s hogwash. more than half the article talks about his sorry life and his mourning for his wife.
Pakistan is at a crossroads. The gravity of the situation has led me, at the insistence of my Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), to run for president in Saturday’s elections. My children and I are still mourning our beloved leader, wife and mother, Benazir Bhutto. We did not make the decision for me to run lightly. But we know what is at stake. Chief among the challenges that all Pakistanis face is the threat of global terrorism, demonstrated again in this week’s assassination attempt against Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani.
Returning Pakistan’s presidency to democratic governance is a huge step in our country’s transition from dictatorship to democracy. I want to help complete this process. I owe it to my party and my country but above all to my wife, who lost her life striving to make Pakistan free, pluralist and democratic.
Pakistani politics has always been a struggle between democratic forces around the country and an elite oligarchy, located exclusively in a region stretching between Lahore and Rawalpindi-Islamabad. The provinces of Sind, the Northwest Frontier (Pashtunkhwa) and Baluchistan, as well as all of rural Punjab, have often been excluded from governance.
A lot of companies want to put their stamp on the Web, and a browser is the primary tool to bring that experience to life. So it was with no real surprise that Google launched a browser yesterday. It is flattering that they chose several features from Opera to include in their browser.
We believe in offering free choice of browsers. We welcome competition because it helps drive the Web forward and offers more robust choices for consumers.
As you know, Google has been a great partner to Opera in the past and will be in the future. Opera Mini, Opera Mobile, and our desktop browser all include Google as the default search. We are also working with them to bring Gears into our desktop and mobile products. Collaboration with Google will continue to be an important aspect of our product development.
In welcoming Google to the browser industry, we also call on them to seize the new responsibility they now have to ensure their products and services work in all browsers. This way, they will protect the free and open Web.
In a machine shop in a sea of cornfields here in a place that calls itself the Pumpkin Capital of the World, this is not a theoretical question. For months now, a team of volunteers has worked earnestly on an effort to send a gourd soaring at Mach I.
Their invention is an 18-ton, 100-foot cannon made of 10-inch-diameter plastic pipe, powered by compressed air and mounted on an old cement mixer. Dubbed the Aludium Q36 Pumpkin Modulator, it has already set a world distance record, flinging a pumpkin 2,710 feet — at a velocity of more than 600 miles per hour, literally faster than some speeding bullets.
At the speed of sound, minimally about 750 mph, the distance record could easily be shattered, assuming the pumpkin doesn’t shatter first. For this team of self-described “high-tech rednecks,” this is a matter of some urgency and pride, says Matt Parker, a Morton businessman and a team leader. For the team is, at the moment, the undisputed champion of the arcane sport known colloquially to its practitioners as “punkin’ chunkin’.”
On Nov. 1, all eyes will be on the Q36 when it defends its title as World Champion Punkin’ Chunker in Lewes, a small town on the Delaware coast.
September 29th, 2008 by 
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