Nuclear Supergau by ztohoven. [via derStandard]
Nuclear Supergau by ztohoven. [via derStandard]
MSNBC’s newsreader Mika Brzezinski shreds the stupid Paris Hilton story.
If you’re a jerk you might so go ahead and be a jerk. [The Vloggies]
It’s freedom what makes the internet to such an exciting communication media. Any kind of censorship undermines the very nature of the internet. At the end of the day it’s up to every site owner what content is going to be published and what not. I don’t need to sign a Code of Conduct for not allowing harassing or threating comments on my blog, I certainly would delete them, as I do it with spam comments. Still, it would be my own decision if I don’t agree with certain comments and therefore don’t want them to be connected with my online life.
Never ever I’ll complain about my life again (you’re encouraged to remind me the next time I do so). Compared to other parts of the globe our problems seem so tiny and unimportant. Just received an email from a friend, working for UN in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where a simple renewal of a drivers license in Kinshasa ended in the middle of a local war zone between two opponent election candidates (the election-loser and his army got a bit disappointed). A message about whistling bullets, looting, hiding and finally tanks to bring civilians out.
We all have seen pictures of African conflicts on the news or in movies, showing warlords and their armies, but it really makes a difference if somebody you know is telling you such a story.
Projects like the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum‘s Darfur layers for Google Earth are clearly not enough but important to raise awareness about that regions. One can only hope that the project doesn’t stop in Darfur and that it was more than a media hype (it even qualified as headline in TV evening news here).
The Telegraph article Terrorists ‘use Google maps to hit UK troops’ sadly reads like a bad joke:
Soldiers from the Royal Green Jackets based at the Basra Palace base said they had considered suing Google Earth if they were injured by mortar rounds that had been directed on the camp by the aerial footage.
Is the army seriously thinking about suing a mapping service because they got attacked in a war?? Can’t be true…
Update
Stefan from Ogle Earth has posted an excellent analysis of the story.