Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus has posed for “artistic” photos in this month’s edition of Vanity Fair magazine. The photos are semi-topless and are already causing a storm of controversy since Cyrus is 15-years-old. The photos have been out ONE DAY and have already caused enough controversy to have Cyrus’ people issue a statement against the photos.
Today is the last day for public comments on a proposed Federal Communications Commission rule change some say would threaten the licenses of Christian radio stations from coast to coast.
What does it mean if you sleep in the “Loosely Tethered Sleeping Style” versus the “Honeymoon Hug” or the “Royal Position”? What is the “Zen Style”? Do the “Leg Hug” or the “Cliffhanger” indicate trouble in paradise? How do you and your spouse sleep and what does that say about your relationship?
Tencent has recently set up an English sign-up site for QQ accounts, and launched a new bi-lingual preview of the QQ for Mac software application this week as well! QQ, Tencent
’s instant messaging service platform, now has over 570 million registered users! Chances are, if you know someone from China, you know a QQ user!
There are several additional Font Packs available for Adobe Reader so you can display and interact with documents authored in languages other than those supported in your native Adobe Reader: Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Thai, Vietnamese, Cyrillic and Greek for MS Windows, Apple Mac OS X, Any Distro (Ubuntu, Yellow Dog, Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS, Debian, etc.) of Linux, Sun Solaris SPARC, etc. …
Here is where to get either the Desktop, Server or Alternate Install CD ISOs for Apple Macintosh G3, G4 and G5 computers, including iBooks and PowerBooks, IBM OpenPower machines, Sun UltraSPARC computers, Intel Itanium computers, as well as Sony PlayStation 3 systems. Submitted since it is impossible to find from the main Ubuntu.com homepage!
Over the summer, The Advocate investigated the financial dealings of Planned Parenthood and made some shocking discoveries about the clinic-owning “nonprofit.” We obtained the information by having an actor call clinics across the country and pose as a donor. The actor who called, The Advocate’s advisor, communicated to them a very racist agenda
Chinese medicine is one tradition that endures, but some of China’s other old traditions are in need of some help. Xiang Embroidery”, centered in Hunan, is one of the four embroideries of China. Hunan Arts and Crafts Vocational College is the country’s first institute to create an academic major for the delicate craft. Students will learn the skills as well as the overall cultural background of the craft. The curriculum covers poetry, prose readings and all categories of fine arts.
Some 20 officers intervened after Armenian worshippers threw a Greek Orthodox priest out of the church, sparking a free-for-all, they said. Several worshippers then started beating the police officers with palm fronds they were holding for the Palm Sunday celebrations that mark the return of Jesus to the Holy City a week before he was crucified. After the incident, dozens of members of Jerusalem’s Armenian community marched from the church to the Old City’s police headquarters in protest at the detention of two Armenians.
A non-profit funded open source project with high-profile backers has released beta code for an open source Flash media player, with a media server in the wings. Can Open Media Now’s Gnash player wrest new media control from Adobe?
When Internet users have trouble connecting with online destinations it’s usually a problem with a server or wireless network, but new computer science research verifies there really are black holes in the cyber universe. And here is the proof that they really exist!
The other day I got into a somewhat heated discussion about why Linux is a viable alternative desktop OS. Despite my best efforts, I was unable to move the other side past the rhetoric and myths that seem to surround Linux. It is because of this discussion that I am writing this…as a way to give accurate information.
Think about it. People have made Linux take on tasks no one probably thought it capable of.
1. The story mentioned above. A man installs Linux on 16 Playstation 3s (with zero hardware modifications), clusters them together, and creates a system to simulate black holes.
2. Installing Linux on a Mac. I was just reading the most recent Wired magazine that has a good story on how Apple has created a very closed system where only Apple software plays on Apple hardware. Hello Yellow Dog Linux! I have run Linux on an iBook - it was sweet.
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On Monday historical records that showed Tibet had been under jurisdiction of the central government for more than 700 years since the Yuan Dynasty (1271-136 
were published. The records are indisputable proof that Tibet has been a part of China since the ancient time, and Tibet has been under jurisdiction of China’s central government.
The scientist who led the team that cracked the human genome is to publish a book explaining why he now believes in the existence of God and is convinced that miracles are real.
