Just not every day
This is admittedly some old news, but it just came to my attention recently. As it happens, a Kenyan lawyer – Dola Indidis – is suing Israel (among other entities, including the state of Italy, King Herod and Emperor Tiberius...
It has been known since June this year that Apple with introduce a privacy/security feature to prevent its users from being followed through wifi-tracking (something happening often in stores – though we are still at scarce knowledge how many stores...
As many news agencies have made clear, India’s Mangalyaan satellite has safely reached Mars and is currently orbiting the planet. Mission: try to understand why there is no water on the planet any longer. A noble cause for environmentalists who...
This very well may be one of the most violent lyrics in music, but Phil Ochs as a 68’er, can only be understood through an understanding of those events. He was not a prophetic writer as for instance noted by Peter Yarrow (as quoted...
A recent article in The Wall Street Journal points to an interesting paradox: Call it the paradox of entrepreneurship: The very thing it takes to start a business often ends up destroying it. How is that possible? Quite simple, what all...
Over the last couple of days, and image has resurfaced on the net with the a bird on a no-bird sign. Humorous as the sign is, it is in fact photoshoped. It is surprising how many people have taken the sign to be...
One of the most famous art works in the West, and perhaps even across the world, Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam is an enigma in more than one way. There have been numerous theories on the nature of the art-piece, its...
As you set out for Ithaca, hope the way is long, full of reversals, full of knowing. Laistrygonians and Cyclops, angry Poseidon you should not fear, never will you find such things on your way if your thought stays lofty,...
The revelations made by the whistle-blower Edward Snowden paradoxically lead to more espionage, according to professor Bob de Graaff of the Utrecht University. The main reason seems to be that, given the revelations about the extent of NSA’s operations, other...
A hacker by the name of Justin Case has managed to crack the Blackphone within five minutes. Not that it is so important that a phone is cracked. One would be surprised if it weren’t cracked. The interesting part is that...
