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I borkeded it.

published by You on 6 January, 2009 - 17:30

Salaams.

I hold my hand up.I just did a few updates - and they have broken Tribune. For now.

I can undo them and restart the old tribune, but I am trying to see if I can get around it by not having to do that.

So, for the addicts, there may be a short period of time where you have to post in the forums. Be afraid. Very Afraid.

Outbidding the tooth fairy

published by You on 6 January, 2009 - 01:30

A Moment Of Tooth

As long as there are hockey players, there will be niche markets for false teeth. But the real news about the future of dentures is that there isn't much of one. Toothlessness has declined 60 percent in the United States since 1960. Baby boomers will be the first generation in human history typically to go to their graves with most of their teeth.

And now comes tooth regeneration: growing teeth in adults, on demand, to replace missing ones. Soon.

This can't be good for, among others, television news. Ever notice how much denture adhesive those programs still shill to geezers born too early for the fluoride revolution?

Blair to get US Medal of Freedom

published by You on 5 January, 2009 - 22:51

Blair to get US Medal of Freedom

Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair will receive the highest civilian award in the US - the Presidential Medal of Freedom - next week.

In his last week in office, President Bush will award the medal to Mr Blair, former Australian PM John Howard and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe.

All three leaders had been "staunch allies" of the US, particularly against terrorism, said the White House.

The ceremony will take place at the White House on 13 January.

Mr Blair, who stepped down as UK prime minister in 2007, is now Middle East peace envoy for the Quartet - Russia, the US, the EU and UN.

Chief ally

Gaza conflict: Who is a civilian?

published by You on 5 January, 2009 - 12:57

Gaza conflict: Who is a civilian?

The bloodied children are clearly civilians; men killed as they launch rockets are undisputedly not. But what about the 40 or so young Hamas police recruits on parade who died in the first wave of Israel's bombing campaign in Gaza?

And weapons caches are clearly military sites – but what about the interior ministry, hit in a strike that killed two medical workers; or the money changer's office, destroyed last week injuring a boy living on the floor above?

As the death toll mounts in Gaza, the thorny question is arising of who and what can be considered a legitimate military target in a territory effectively governed by a group many in the international community considers a terrorist organisation.

The curse of Nigerian oil

published by You on 5 January, 2009 - 01:19

The curse of Nigerian oil

Attacks on oil industry facilities and kidnappings for ransom are frequent in the creeks of the Niger Delta, which is home to Africa's biggest oil and gas industry.

The BBC's Sue Lloyd-Roberts argues that Nigeria's "black gold" has brought wealth to a few but fuels greed and corruption on a grand scale.

After spending just two weeks in Nigeria, I had come to a sweeping - and therefore probably wrong - conclusion about the country.

I was therefore gratified to find my view confirmed by the Nigerian woman whom I sat next to on the flight back from Abuja to London. I told her that I had spent most of my time in the Delta region filming the consequences of oil exploration.

The 'first true scientist'

published by You on 5 January, 2009 - 01:11

The 'first true scientist'

Isaac Newton is, as most will agree, the greatest physicist of all time.

At the very least, he is the undisputed father of modern optics,­ or so we are told at school where our textbooks abound with his famous experiments with lenses and prisms, his study of the nature of light and its reflection, and the refraction and decomposition of light into the colours of the rainbow.

Yet, the truth is rather greyer; and I feel it important to point out that, certainly in the field of optics, Newton himself stood on the shoulders of a giant who lived 700 years earlier.

Nine terrorists removed from plane

published by You on 3 January, 2009 - 00:21

9 Muslim Passengers Removed From Jet

Others on Flight Say a Remark Was 'Suspicious'

Officials ordered nine Muslim passengers, including three young children, off an AirTran flight headed to Orlando from Reagan National Airport yesterday afternoon after two other passengers overheard what they thought was a suspicious remark.

Members of the party, all but one of them U.S.-born citizens who were headed to a religious retreat in Florida, were subsequently cleared for travel by FBI agents who characterized the incident as a misunderstanding, an airport official said. But the passengers said AirTran refused to rebook them, and they had to pay for seats on another carrier secured with help from the FBI.

If you were gonna die...

published by You on 29 December, 2008 - 17:27

... For definite in one minute - no longer no shorter. what would you do?

1 hour?

1 Day?

Would you sleep? would you relax? would you be praying all the time or would you sit with family/friends?

1 week?

1 month?

Would you go to work? Would you be angry? would you show annoyance?

1 year?

2 years?

Would you go for a holiday? would you try to save up money?

10 years?

20 years?

50 years?

At what points would your priorities change when dealing with faith and the world? Would you be waiting for the end?

In real life we do not know how long we have. So from the above, which do you use as a guide?

What do you offer?

published by You on 28 December, 2008 - 21:04

jeopardy time.

Imagine a world that is overcrowded. By one individual.

Out of the billions of people out there one must be killed.

And its your turn on the stand. What do you offer now, or in the future that would get the noose off you neck?

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