I read this over on my cousins blog and I just had to post it: I was reading the newspaper today when i came across this in the letters section of the Guardian Justice and Israel I am mystified by the fuss Israel is making over the removal of 2% of it’s illegal settlers from the Occupied Territories. Israel managed to ethnically cleanse half a million Palestinians from their homes during the 1948 war. In recent years, it has destroyed thousands of Palestinian homes. So are we supposed to be so impressed by the "trauma" of removing 8,000 squatters from Gaza, that we no...

Slashdot reports:  "A new folksonomy website that seems to be catching on is YouTube, a service similar to Flickr, except that it is for sharing and hosting short video clips instead of photos. Like Flickr, its core functionality is implemented in Flash. Videos can be tagged, searched, discussed, etc through a social network. YouTube has developer APIs, RSS feeds, and the ability to embed videos directly into other web pages. The website was recently profiled on TechCrunch as an up-and-coming Web 2.0 application."  Of course i’ve already signed up and I must say it seems...

Mumtaz from Birmingham wrote such an extensive comment I thought i’d give it its own post:   |inline

Finally! Messenger for Mac 5.0 makes it easy to take advantage of the full power of instant messaging. Messenger for Mac offers two types of communication services- a personal account and a corporate account. A personal account works with the MSN® Messenger service on the Microsoft Passport Network. Contacts that you add to your personal account will include friends and family members. A corporate account uses the Microsoft Office Live Communications Server service and can include contacts who use other instant messaging services, such as AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), Yahoo Messenger, and iChat...

I pray for him and hope that Allah (SWT) grants him paradise. A message on behalf of Trustees, Director and Staff of IPCI Early this morning, 8 August 2005 / 2 Rajab 1426, Sheikh Ahmed Hoosen Deedat passed on to meet his Creator. This was after succumbing to a severe stroke that left him paralysed for more than nine years.Throughout this period, he gracefully persevered under the most difficult...

 "I am utterly against the punishing of innocent people for the crimes of the guilty, whether it is done on the underground of London or the streets of Falluja by George Bush’s air force". George Galloway MP Lets face it, there aren’t many likeable politicians in the western (and of course everywhere else) governments today, so it feels good to say that I’ve always had respect for George Galloway and his views towards the current situations. I’ve attended seminars and talks with George Galloway as a guest and I’ve always been delighted with his...

 Okay so i’m reading through my daily collection of mailinglist emails and yet again I come across an interesting article from the Information Clearing house. Yep I don’t fully agree with it – and the ideologies that the author has portrayed about Islam are, like usual, strangely foreign to anyone who actually has any idea about the faith - |inline

I found this article on Wired News about Christian Games, oh yeah, they exist. There appears to’ve been a Christian Game Developers Conference recently on which they’ve showcased some new games like this one: Timothy and Titus. players assume the roles of the two disciples of St. Paul who spread the gospel throughout the ancient Mediterranean. Instead of the health and weapons points used in other role-playing games, players collect love, hope and faith points to power their missions. When they meet foes, instead of fragging them as in Halo 2, the disciples earn their halos by praying...