December 2008
68 posts
Girls Growing Up Too Fast →
Stones thrown at Prime Minister Prachanda's convoy →
What you sow is what you reap
Germany's Solar Experiment →
A perfect example from Germany. In the wake of Nepal’s dreadful Power Problems (16 hours of power cut coming in about a month’s time: http://bibekpaudel.wordpress.com/2008/12/19/more-darkness/) , I wish our leaders learned something while they travel abroad. Of course, they never will !
The Top 10 Everything of 2008 - TIME →
Democracy Now! | Republican IT Specialist Dies in... →
Republican IT Specialist Dies in Plane Crash under suspicious circumstances
No time for revenge →
War is only old men talking and young men dying. Indian and Pakistani brothers, please don’t demand blood.
Top 10 scientific breakthroughs of 2008 →
Text Messaging Secrets →
Among technology’s best kept secrets? Text messages don’t cost a dime. Damn, NTC, open up the interface !
Cigarette diaries: NYTimes.com →
Tales of smokers and their efforts to quit. Obama vows to quit this new year.
The Art of Radical Exclusion →
a habit I need to practice again while undertaking work
The 10 Worst Corporations of 2008 →
The financial crisis first gripping Wall Street and now spreading rapidly throughout the world is, in many ways, emblematic of the worst of the corporate-dominated political and economic system
A physician's tragic journey from Nepal to... →
“A very wise man once said: it’s not your girlfriend, it’s just your...”
– Women of Silicon Valley and Sleeping your way to the top
Story writing: why geeks don't get girls :) →
The Top 20 news stories of 2008: Times →
Top 10 Ways to Protect Your Digital Data →
With the right software tools and a little Advanced Common Sense, you can secure your data so that even if someone did get onto your computer or into your email, they’d find nothing but headaches and woe. A list of ten software apps and strategies for locking down your online life.
Nepal has the 42nd largest population: ring bells? →
Result of the open border, poverty or a very improper citizenship law and corrupt officials ?
Computer ownership per 100 people: top 48... →
The year 2008 in photographs (part 1 of 3):... →
Smart kids are more likely to be heavy drinkers:... →
10 things you need to know about this lesser known... →
After drugs, alcohol and shopping, sex is the fourth most common reason for debt in the UK.
Virginity for Sale: The Dark World of Forced Teen... →
Nepalese girls are disappearing deep into the brothel system of India.
More 10th-Graders Are Smoking Marijuana Than... →
Stolen Kisses: Iran's Sexual Revolutions: AlterNet →
Sneezing linked to sex, scientists find →
An index of promiscuity | Sex and the citizen |... →
‘The Joy of Sex,’ Revised for Today - NYTimes.com →
Ecstasy over G spot therapy- New Scientist →
Private Browsing Sweater [PIC] →
Weird news review of the year 2008, The year in... →
Ralph magazine loses 130,000 inflatable boobs at... →
Something for a change: Madonna gives Guy £50m in... →
Feminists, equality is when divorces start being equally benefiting to males.
Scientists develop software that can map dreams -... →
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”
This is truest sentence (scientifically and philosophically) I have ever read. I will wait for the day when they can reproduce actions from dead people on alive people, just by stroking the brain cells.
Shoes thrown at Bush on Iraq trip: BBC →
Iraqi journalist merely throws shoes at Bush. You have to respect this man’s restraint. With nearly 1,000,000 Iraqis dead as a result of George’s war, flying shoes are practically flowers and candy.
The future of climate change is in Linux's hands:... →
Inventor builds his perfect woman - a robot who... →
Devoted Aiko — “in her 20s” — has a stunning 32-23-33 figure, pretty face and shiny hair. A few “tweaks” could turn her into a sexual partner. Her software could be redesigned to simulate her having an orgasm.
Academics invent a mathematical equation for why... →
I am not alone ! Procastinators make up 20 per cent of the population.
“If you want to find an easier way to do something, give the job to a lazy...”
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The Casual Sex survey- Promiscuity Rankings: Times →
Apart from the promiscuity rankings of countries, a recent study (measuring one-night stands, total numbers of partners and attitudes to casual sex) releases some interesting findings:
-when women are at their most fertile they become even more willing than men to consider one-night stands. Men tended to have the most partners, and to think most about acquiring new ones, when in their twenties.
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Iran executes IT expert who spied for Israel:... →
A story that sheds light on the use of computer and software technology in intelligence war is a crucial part of the intelligence war.
After confessing to have spied for Mossad, an IT expert is executed in Iran. He allowed the softwares to be subtly doctored by Israeli computer engineers before it was imported to Iran.
10 Ways to Ruin Your Health and Die Young →
How many of these habits do you have? These are often well-known but ignored.
Brain tests show child wealth gap: BBC →
The brains of children from low-income families process information differently to those of their wealthier counterparts, US research suggests.
Was Mumbai attack a conspiracy engineered by Hindu... →
Another conspiracy theory. Was Hemant Karkare’s murder planned?
Mumbai’s 26/11 was actually a plan hatched by “Hindu Zionists” and “Western Zionists”, including the Mossad, says Zaid Hamid, a Pakistan security expert.
Lab Notes : Happiness is Contagious? →
Advice for anyone who wants to be happier: pick the right friends.
Online Reporters Now the Journalists Most Often... →
This was on Slashdot: “The Committee to Protect Journalists today released the results of its annual survey of journalists in prison. For the first time, they found more Internet journalists jailed worldwide than journalists working in any other medium. CPJ found that 45 percent of all media workers jailed worldwide are bloggers, Web-based reporters, or online editors. Their chart of...
IBM offers a 'Microsoft-free' desktop: CNET News →
IBM wants corporate customers to cut the cord with Microsoft.
The tech pioneer is launching a Linux-based collection of virtual-desktop applications that run on a server without the need for desktop hardware—or Microsoft software, according to a report on Wednesday evening by The Wall Street Journal. The Linux-based software package, which is available now, runs on a back-office server...
Nepal's Maoist leader Netra Bikram Chand (Biplav)... →
Nepalese workers stranded in Iraq: Recruiters... →
The recruiters told the men — from India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Uganda — that jobs were waiting for them with American defense contractor KBR, through a Kuwaiti company called Najlaa Catering Services. The recruiting agents charged them between $3,000 and $5,000 to make the trip to Iraq; many sold their farms or other valuables to raise the money.