Archive for February 27th, 2009
Families that own mobile phones of different brands and models may be able to share a single charger within three years under a deal involving 17 mobile phone companies. Â Note the discluded names of Apple (iPhone), Palm and RIM from the list below.
The list includes
3 Group.
AT&T.
KTF.
LG.
mobilkom austria.
Motorola.
Nokia.
Orange.
Qualcomm.
Samsung.
Sony Ericsson.
Telecom Italia.
Telefónica.
Telenor.
Telstra.
T-Mobile.
Vodafone.
the slow and inevitable doom of the art of handwriting is sure to come about. the bbc describes it. i remember the days of three lined pages to teach hand writing and urdu calligraphy. i highly doubt that this will be the case in even ten or fifteen years from now, much less a century from now.
“When your great-great-grandchildren find that letter of yours in the attic, they’ll have to take it to a specialist, an old guy at the library who would decipher the strange symbols for them,” says Ms Florey, author of the newly-published Script and Scribble: The Rise and Fall of Handwriting.
She argues that children – if not this generation then one soon to come – may grow up using only a crude form of printing for the rare occasions in life they need to communicate by pen.
The way handwriting is taught has undoubtedly changed. At Ms Florey’s school in 1950s America, a nun beat time with a stick as the class copied letters from the blackboard. It was not a place for individuals. There was a right way to form letters and very many wrong ways.
just following up on the pirate bay trial as it continues. trust me when i say it’s well worth the read.
also…as a bonus, here’s a great rebuttal by the defendants and other interested and vested parties about why the music industry is wrong about why their sales are decreasing and why file sharing has nothing to do with it and how they are just swinging an axe in their own foot.
where do these people get this jibberish in their head? why don’t we all time travel to the stone age and live like the amish. damn fatwa’s. i’d love to know where all this profound knowledge comes from.
As if the debate around using ethanol to fuel cars weren’t already complicated enough, now an Islamic scholar has suggested that driving or even riding in a vehicle fueled by ethanol could be considered a sin for observant Muslims.
The opinion comes from Sheikh Mohamed al-Najimi, of the Islamic Jurisprudence Academy in Saudi Arabia. It is based on the part of Islamic law derived from a statement by the prophet in which dealing with alcohol in any form–including purchase, sale, transport, consumption, and manufacture–is strictly prohibited.
The sheikh urged that the issue of ethanol-powered vehicles should be studied by Islamic religious scholars, and stressed that the statement was not a fatwa but simply his own opinion.