Let’s get political!

pbs.org

As you travel through life, how engaged are you with political and social issues? In what ways do you get involved? How do you feel when someone mentions the word "politics"? Are you excited? Indifferent? Uncertain?

Take the “Let’s get political” quiz:

Rock Climber Chris Sharma

npr.org

“Chris Sharma is hailed as the world’s best rock climber, a pioneer who has mastered some of the most spectacular and difficult routes in the history of the sport.” read

 

Chris Sharma climbing La Rambla  - watch the video

Introducing Ubiquity

labs.mozilla.com

An experiment into connecting the Web with language. read the article

Watch the video:

Warning, Or Maybe Not

washingtonpost.com

“In an interview with The Washington Post on Monday, Google senior privacy counsel Jane Horvath was asked about a reported “warning” issued by the German government’s Federal Office for Information Security.

According to Germany’s top privacy official, Peter Schaar, the information security office had warned the public not to use Google’s new Web browser Chrome because it was not fully vetted and had security holes.

“There was no warning issued,” Horvath insisted.

She was right.” read the article

The Chrome is out of the bag: Google’s browser arrives today

from Google’s official blog:

“A fresh take on the browser
9/01/2008 02:10:00 PM
At Google, we have a saying: “launch early and iterate.” While this approach is usually limited to our engineers, it apparently applies to our mailroom as well! As you may have read in the blogosphere, we hit “send” a bit early on a comic book introducing our new open source browser, Google Chrome. As we believe in access to information for everyone, we’ve now made the comic publicly available — you can find it here. We will be launching the beta version of Google Chrome tomorrow in more than 100 countries.

So why are we launching Google Chrome? Because we believe we can add value for users and, at the same time, help drive innovation on the web.” read more

 

Update:

from blogs.pcworld.com

Official Google Chrome Screenshots

Ziggurat: Dubai Carbon Neutral Pyramid

inhabitat.com

Ziggurat will house 1 million people.  read more

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Beijing 2008 Olympic Games August 8-24

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