They wanted to block 17 sites, so they blocked half the internet . The thing is, if ISP’s had blocked just the 17 sites on the list, I don’t think too many people would have taken notice. So perhaps it’s all for good - the way things are turning out.
Well, the blanket blogger […]

Two years after the Indian government’s flopped blanket ban on Yahoo Groups, Indian ISPs have been instructed to block several blogs, most notably all blogs hosted at Blogger and Typepad and sites hosted at geocities.
While it’s trivial to proxy around the ban for now, this move from the government has higher implications. It will […]

I stumbled across this entry on Ajay D’Souza’s blog about a Virus on Orkut.
I received quite a few scraps from pals with this content. None of them know Portuguese.
The scrap was:
Opa, tudo bom? Eu criei um vídeo com uma seleção de minhas fotos novas, clica aí pra ver - [URL.edited.out] […]

“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions […]

It’s a well known fact that Humans loose their clarity of hearing with age.
However, it’s lesser known that the exact ability that human auditory equipment loose, is the ability to hear higher frequency sounds . ie, as humans grow older, they gradually loose their ability to hear high frequency sounds.
And with a little bit […]