Find your bosses’ home value with Zillow and Yahoo! – Lifehacker
Yahoo! Real Estate has integrated the previously-mentioned Zillow home valuation service into Yahoo! Maps.
That means you can look up the home values of your house, your friends’ and enemies’ houses on Yahoo! all mapped out with nearby homes for comparison.
How to Sleep Comfortably on a Hot Night – WikiHow
7 tips and other ideas to try and keep cool.
ebaumsworld.com Celebrity Soundboards – Pranks –
This well-trafficked site, which is supported by advertising, has collected sound bites from your favorite characters, Homer Simpson, Jack Nicholson, Arnold and many others. Besides reliving some great one-liners, the idea is to play these quotes over your speaker phone in a conversation. There are some recorded prank call as examples.
It’s 2025. Where Do Most People Live? — The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Researchers at the Center for Climate Systems Research (CCSR), a part of The Earth Institute, have developed a high-resolution map of projected population change for the year 2025.
The innovative map shows a world with large areas of population loss in parts of Eastern Europe and Asia, but significant gains elsewhere. see full map- 34mb pdf file download
Thanks Randy for this collage of events:
Our foreign correspondent, Caroline, closest to the war zone says:
“Hello All, I had a busy day in Prague. Went to the Jewish Cemetary, where there are some 20,000 bodies burried over time in 12 layers, as being a ghetto they could not expanf the cemetary. Over time the tombstones of centuries past have worked themselves up to the surface and in their wake
left a dizzying display over ancient stone.”
Newt Gingrich, on with Tim Russert July 16 says;
“I, I believe if you take all the countries I just listed, that you’ve been covering, put them on a map, look at all the different connectivity, you’d have to say to yourself this is, in fact, World War III.” (Newt, by Jove, you’ve got it!)
Our foreign correspondent, Caroline, closest to the war zone says:
“Saw the astronomical clock do its thing, which is on the hour a proccession of saints twirl around inside the bell tower like they are on a merry go round . . . “
But Sheik Nasrallah is shrewdly rallying the faithful by evoking his party’s claim to a holy mandate:
“You are fighting the sons of Muhammad and Ali and Hassan and Hussein and all the prophet’s household,” he told the Israelis in a recorded message broadcast on the group’s satellite television station, Al Manar, and on several Arab satellite news stations.
Asia Times Online :: Middle East News – It’s war by any other name
This is where the Hamas Meshal-Hezbollah Nasrallah connection comes into play. Both leaders are clearly not interested in peace with Israel. Their views are mirrored with their two allies in Tehran and Damascus. Both leaders are unimpressed by Arab regimes that call for peace and dialogue – prime on the list being Mahmud Abbas in Palestine.
They believe, however, that war on two fronts would achieve one of two things. Either it would get Israel to show aggression, justifying their own aggression against the Israelis. Or a best-case scenario would be that a two-side war would break Israel. Either outcome, Hezbollah and Hamas are the victors. Continue reading “It’s war by any other name”
Asia Times Online :: Islamism Facsism Terrorism
World War III was the Cold War. To understand World War IV, it is important to know that Fascism and Islamism have a sordid 80-year history of collaboration based on shared ideas, practices and perceived common enemies.
Substitute religious for racial purity, and most ideological and organizational precepts of Nazism are essentially identical to the later precepts of the Muslim Brotherhood. This Marc Erikson series devestatingly traces the Brotherhood’s collaboration with fascism from the present-day brains behind al-Qaeda to the era of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem during World War II. Continue reading “Islamism Facsism Terrorism”
Asia Times Online :: Middle East News – Cry havoc, and let slip the puppies of war
Dogs of war incline toward caution, which after all is how they grew up to be dogs. More worrisome are puppies, who do not know what danger is. Gavrilo Princeps, the Serbian gunman who shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand dead in June 1914, was a puppy. So are the Hamas kidnappers, who at this writing still hold Israeli Army Corporal Gilad Shalit, and the Mehdi Army shooters who reportedly disposed of several dozen Sunni civilians in Baghdad on the weekend. The North Koreans, by contrast, are just nasty old dogs who long ago got loose from their leash. Continue reading “Cry havoc, and let slip the puppies of war”
An American Foreign Policy That Both Realists and Idealists Should Fall in Love With – New York Times
Progressive realism begins with a cardinal doctrine of traditional realism: the purpose of American foreign policy is to serve American interests.
In an age when Americans are threatened by overseas bioweapons labs and outbreaks of flu, by Chinese pollution that enters lungs in Oregon, by imploding African states that could turn into terrorist havens, by authoritarian Arab governments that push young men toward radicalism, the classic realist indifference to the interiors of nations is untenable.
Progressive realists see that America can best flourish if others flourish — if African states cohere, if the world’s Muslims feel they benefit from the world order, if personal and environmental health are nurtured, if economic inequities abroad are muted so that young democracies can be stable and strong. More and more, doing well means doing good.
MiamiHerald.com | 07/16/2006 | Rival Chávez factions resort to deadly force
Internal, violent fighting among supporters of President Hugo Chávez is putting the government in an awkward position.
‘They’ve created monsters,” said Lisandro Pérez, a leader of the Tupamaro Popular Resistance Front, referring to the myriad pro-Chávez vigilante groups. “And now these monsters are eating them.”