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Volunteering since September 11, 2001: Website matches people, causes

Volunteering has become a way to commemorate September 11, 2001. Organizers of 911dayofservice.org hope it will channel people’s willingness to help year-round.

Video: Kansas Bus Jacking: Raw Footage

A man stole an ATA bus Friday morning in Kansas City, Kan., kicking off the driver and passengers before leading police on a nearly 20 minute chase through parts of the city.

@gadius No sigo ese blog,pero al margen de eso, es uno d sus posibles usos,sí XD Y lo cierto es q quieras o no,te enteras de muchas cosas XD

@gadius No sigo ese blog,pero al margen de eso, es uno d sus posibles usos,sí XD Y lo cierto es q quieras o no,te enteras de muchas cosas XD

Linkin Park - Road to Revolution: Live at Milton Keynes

Live Concert, from the DVD, Road To Revolution; Live At Milton Keynes

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Avid segment tool explained

Avid Media Composer (@MediaComposer) 10/09/2010 20:32 What’s the diff. between segment INSERT and OVERWRITE tools? Learn in this lesson from GETTING STARTED training: http://youtu.be/E-g9i-v5Q0k

The X Factor cries out for a burst of Miss World mischief | Jenny Turner

It won't be as easy as 1970. But someone will see a non-violent, poetically explosive way of cracking today's sado-gawping TV

Forty years ago the 1970 Miss World final featured Bob Hope, Michael Aspel, and two beauty queens – black and white – from apartheid South Africa. No one today would remember much about the show, except that it was disrupted, mocked, completely rubbished by representatives of the Women's Liberation Movement, armed with whistles, football rattles, sub-prime vegetables and water pistols filled with blue ink.

Radio 4 has marked the occasion with a terrific Reunion programme, in which Sue MacGregor moderates a discussion between three of these feminist heroines, Aspel, Jennifer Hosten (as Miss Grenada the night's actual winner) and a Miss World trusty – "It was a question of smack on the bum, get out and smile, because this was live!" I listened with delight, and a growing question. Why did no one try something similar on Big Brother eviction night, why does no one try it on The X Factor? Did they, maybe, except that they got stopped and censored? Will something real and hilarious happen tonight, supposedly BB's last? Will we ever get to hear about it if so?

You can look up the 1970 Miss World final on YouTube. It's an appalling spectacle, old-style BBC light entertainment at its worst. The Albert Hall is done up as a glittery sound stage, on which glide and slither dinner-jacketed, lounge-lizardy males. The "girls" come on in national costume, like dollies stuck on toilet rolls, then in high-on-the-leg one-piece swimsuits worn with heels. Hope is old, sour, deeply rattled (the phrase "cattle market" had been used on a chatshow; the day began with a small explosion, claimed by the Angry Brigade, under an empty BBC outside broadcast van). As MacGregor put it, the show was "both anachronistic and degrading". Watching it, even nowadays, I feel myself flush all over with waves of early-70s pre-feminist girlishness – misery, a sense of imprisonment, sexual shame.

Forty years later, the battered shell of the Miss World pageant drags itself along, like a zombie – in 2002 the show provoked riots in Abuja, Nigeria, in which 120 people were killed; the 2010 final happens next month, in Sanya, a beach resort in China. Its spirit, though, lives on: in BB, The X Factor, all those gruesome television spectacles in which usually good-looking, often vulnerable young people – mostly though not invariably women (because that would be sexist) – submit themselves to harsh, even sadistic judgment, delivered by glossed-up celebrity professionals in the studio, and by the baying mob at home.

In the olden days Miss World was idiotic, but blessedly superficial; "vital statistics" were noted, rear views admired, token commitments made to world peace. These days the sizing-up goes on 24/7, scrutinising looks, abilities, hopes, delusions – any aspect of a person's outer or inner being that happens to capture the fancy of the all-seeing camera eye.

Sometimes the method picks up on moments that are warm, odd, funny, touching – like lots of people, I have spent loads of time over the past decade gripped by Big Brother, fascinated by the "reality" or otherwise of romances, tantrums, breasts, hanks of hair. And yet the surveillance is also demeaning and depressing, with an insidious, invidious way of pumping yet more pressure into a viewer's already overloaded head. Keep up the work on the look, the smile, the chirpiness, the perfection. Keep up the phoney self-belief, or else!

On last week's X Factor, for example, we saw a couple of nice-looking young people with fantastic voices, pleasant manners, and so little weirdness or neuroticism that the cameras barely stopped to note their names. More time was given to Ablisa, the one who lost it and started fighting, and to 17-year-old Cher Lloyd, who can't really sing or rap or anything, but who admires Cheryl Cole so much she has copied the tattoo she wears on her hand. Cher, apparently, is the bookies' favourite, and already a tabloid darling. The other day, the Daily Mail was happily fretting that she's been seen "shaking" and not eating much for her dinner. Maybe, it gleefully speculates, Cher "can't take the strain".

It's not that The X Factor is the cause or source of this hateful media sado-gawping. But then, neither was Miss World the cause or source of the grotesque objectification from which it took its shape. Its very crassness, however, made it a useful vehicle, as the historian Sally Alexander – one of the demonstrators in 1970 – has said, for the "public announcement" regarding the place of women in society that she and her comrades wanted to make. Now it won't be so easy for anyone trying to do something similar with a programme. The tech, the PR, the security are so sophisticated. You've got to be very careful to avoid a hint of terrorism, no Nerf Blasters or Super Soakers or anything resembling guns or bombs.

I won't be there, unfortunately, when someone finally works out how to do it – I'm too old and tired, too stuck at home with childcare, too out of touch with all this social media stuff. From where I'm sitting, though, I keep hearing about how entertainment industry employers exploit young people's energy and ambition in internships that never turn into proper life-sustaining jobs; I hear about Facebook groups and flash mobs and vuvuzelas. Sooner or later, someone will see a physically non-violent, poetically explosive way of cracking it all open, if only for a second. All I can say is that if you care to try it, sweethearts, I for one will be cheering you all the way.

Greg's Cable Map is a treasure trove of information about the Internet's layout

Filed under: Internet, Utilities, Education

The Internet runs on cables. I mean, yes, you've got all those massive servers, but without the cables, they're not worth much. That's a fact which is pretty easy to forget. At the end of the day, all of our futuristic Web 2.0 stuff is just running on a bunch of physical cables, stretching from continent to continent, somewhere deep down at the bottom of the ocean.

Greg's Cable Map provides more than a glimpse into this fascinating world of underwater cables. You don't see the stuff within each continent. It just shows you the interconnections that make the Internet truly global.

In the screenshot above, you see a ton of connections going into the Eastern seaboard. So, that's a lot of physical redundancy right there, which is great for the US. (Let's not forget that the US is pretty much the hub of this whole Internet thing.)

Not all countries are so fortunate, though. If you scroll around the map a little bit, you'll soon discover that some countries and islands are connected via just one or two undersea cables. The thought is mind-boggling; just one or two very thin (relative to their length) cables, stretching on for thousands of miles, is all that connects a whole country to the World Wide Web. Whoa!

Some countries have satellite uplinks too, but the bandwidth is negligible compared to what the undersea cables offer. Speaking of bandwidth - the map includes the capacity of each underwater link, so you can figure out how much bandwidth an entire continent or country is getting. It's pretty impressive stuff.

Greg's Cable Map is a treasure trove of information about the Internet's layout originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Vein Care Workshop: Why Vein Care Matters for Users and from a Public Health Perspective

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Cooperation between both Koreas urged

SEOUL, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- South Korea's president says he favors another inter-Korean industrial complex but the possibility depends on North Korea's attitudes.



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Comment on CNN analysts take on Obama's Q&A session by boyde greenaway

Barbara, thank you thank you thank you. It is refreshing to know that there is at least one American out there who still has common sense.

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Blasts, fireballs, quake-like rumbles rocked California town

At first, residents thought it was an earthquake. Or maybe a big airplane had crashed. San Bruno, after all, is adjacent to the San Francisco airport.

Schwarzenegger signs California's 'Chelsea's Law'

People convicted of certain sex offenses against a child in California will get life in prison without parole starting Thursday, after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed "Chelsea's Law."

House may adjourn a week early

Leaders consider move that would allow for just 11 days in session before the midterms.

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