Tuesday, December 21, 2004

Mobile phone cameras have caused yet more trouble, this time in India where a seventeen year old boy has been arrested for filming a sexual encounter he had ...also arrested was the chief exec. of India's version of ebay, because a copy of the video was offered on the auction site..Condi Rice is said to have taken personal interest in the case because he is an American citizen, the story is in the Guardian---The Guardian also had an article about Iranian blogs yesterday. There are 75,000 Iranian blogs out there , bravo Iran--- A majority of Americans, according to CNN, think Rumsfeld should resign---Jehane Noujaim, who went to school in Kuwait when she was young, has followed up her hit Startup.com with the highly praised Control Room, it's on DVD now---The magazine American Prospect has an article about how badly American democracy ranks among world democracies---According to a poll released by ABC and the Washington Post, Bush's approval is the lowest of any returning president ever---Newly released documents have even more prisoner abuse scandals in them---Due to continued attempts to convert Christian Copts in Egypt to Islam, the Coptic Pope has gone into seclusion to draw attention to the problem---Saad Eddin Ebrahim has been in Kuwait for the past two days, he gave a talk at KU and then at The Graduates Society (is that what it's called) and was interviewed on KTV as well---Finally, this is old news but here it is, if you're in the mood for learning, MIT has a free and open courseware site you can take a look at..




2 comments:

Q said...

See kwtia, I told u earlier dont stop...ur starting to slip away! Keep them posts coming!

kwtia said...

Thanks guys...sorry Q, crazy week, will try to pick it up soon..see you guys around..