A few days ago I came across an article talking about Sony’s new AR range of laptops, and when I saw the specification I was taken back. The Sony VAIO AR11S features (full specs available here): Intel Core Duo 2Ghz T2500 CPU 200GB (2×100GB HDDs in RAID 0) 1GB DDR2 667Mhz RAM Rewritable Blu-Ray Disc Drive TV Tuner (Freeview/Analog) Windows Media Centre 2005 256MB nVidia 7600GT 17″ X-Black TFT Screen HDMI Out (High Definition TV Cable) Media Centre Remote and Receiver   The Blu-Ray discs can store about 50GB of data (about 10x what a standard DVD can hold at the moment) and...

A recent article written by Yvonne Ridley talks about ‘Pop Culture in the Name of Islam‘. There has been a lot of hype about it, and I don’t even have time to go into detail as I have an exam tomorrow (search google if you want to see!). I am posting just to say that the Islamic group ‘Mecca2Medina‘ have made a response to the article where Yvonne Ridley says: “Islamic boy bands like 786 and Mecca 2 Medina are also the subject of the sort of female adulation you expect to see on American Pop Idol or the X-Factor. Surely Islamic events should be promoting restrained...

Peace, theres a cool site and a really good flash video which is encouraging people, largely kids in America not to join their army which is killing thousands of innocents and essentially could cost you your life. Check it out!

Recently I spoke about questioning why. I was trying to make a point – things aren’t always as they seem. The violence in Iraq isn’t stopping, far from it. Let’s question why. ‘Suicide’ bombers are probably the world’s biggest fear. Let’s start by breaking the media-imposed phrase down. You see, suicide is a word associated when someone wishes to end their own life. In my opinion calling anyone who kills themselves to kill others ’suicidal’, is wrong. Of course the term is only used because it incites fear in ones mind, someone who wants to kill...