Random

✽ They're shooting part of Transformers 3 at Andersen Air Force Base on Guam -- NOT. It was a part of a phishing scam. ~ link

✽ A child dies from malaria every 30 seconds. Children are rallying to save lives with high quality $10 nets, which are purchased as often as possible from local suppliers (stimulating the local economies). BTW, today is WORLD MALARIA DAY. ~ link

✽ BBC story on the new Arizona immigration law: "...All the same, most Arizonans support the new law..." They do? What is the basis of that statement? ~ link

✽ 2,000 people attended a peaceful rally in downtown Phoenix to protest the new state immigration law. ~ link

✽ Nearly 100,000 people have attended a rally in Japan's southern island of Okinawa demanding that a US military base be moved off the island. 100,000! ~ link

✽ New designer newspaper start-ups in London ~ link

✽ India's copyright laws contextually appropriate?

When the US entertainment industry looks at India, it sees one gigantic copyright problem. That's why it wants India to remain on the US government's "Priority Watch List" for intellectual property issues in 2010, and that's why it blasted the country's new copyright proposals for (among other things) having too many legal reasons to bypass DRM.

But what happens when you look at India from the perspective of culture and consumers? The country comes out number one... ~ link

✽ "...Surprisingly, these figures show that, since 1940, Republicans and Democrats are just about equally invested in big government. If anything, government gets slightly smaller under Democrats." ~ LaVonne Neff

✽ CalTech has come up with a relatively inexpensive and efficient solar technology. Go Beavers! ~ link