From good privacy to Facebook

The California company’s recent move to become omnipresent with software “plug-ins” that let people’s online communities follow them to any website is the latest iteration to raise hackles of privacy advocates.

When Facebook users visit websites with “open graph” plug-ins, on-screen windows show which friends from the social network have gone to those pages and what they had to say about them.

While Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg touted the change as part of an inevitable shift to personalized and social online experiences some see it as creepy. Read more

The breathe fire at the box office(video)

The DreamWorks Animation adventure took in $15 million to reclaim the No.1 spot in its fifth weekend of release.
“How to Train Your Dragon” opened in first place in late March, then dropped back into the pack.

But it has held up strongly and climbed to the top again amid a flurry of so-so new releases. Read more

Microscopic ash is potentially dangerous for people

Europeans should try to stay indoors if ash from Iceland’s volcano starts settling, the World Health Organization warned Friday as small amounts fell in Iceland, Scotland and Norway.

WHO spokesman Daniel Epstein said the microscopic ash is potentially dangerous for people when it starts to reach the Earth because inhaled particles can enter the lungs and cause respiratory problems.

“We’re very concerned about it,” Epstein said. “These particles when inhaled can reach the peripheral regions of … the lungs and can cause problems — especially for people with asthma or respiratory problems.” He also said Europeans who go outside might want to consider wearing a mask.

Other experts, however, weren’t convinced Read more

Commercial underground bunkers (video)

U.S. company will start building commercial underground bunkers for people who want to survive an apocalypse such as an asteroid hitting the Earth or a nuclear attack.

Vivos, a California-based company, said it is planning a business project that offers the hope of surviving a near-extinction-level event, like the one many people say the Mayans predicted will occur in 2012.

Vivos said it plans to set up 20 “multi-level, 20,000 square foot (1,858 square meters)hardened shelter,” with each housing up to 200 people across the United States. Read more

The eruption has already started under the glacier (video)

All indications showed a new eruption was starting in Eyjafjallajokull glacier in southern Iceland, according to reports reaching here from Reykjavik on Wednesday.

“Rivers are growing bigger and smoke was seen over the glacier this morning,” geologist Magnus Tumi Gudmundsson was quoted as saying by the Icelandic newspaper online The Iceland Review. Read more

The earth - geomagnetic storm

A sudden geomagnetic storm, the strongest in the past 18 months, was caused by the Sun. The geomagnetic storm that began on April 5 still continues, although it is subsiding. The maximum strength is most likely over. The storm has reached geomagnetic K-index 7 out of 10, the strongest in the past 540 days, since October 2008.

According to a warning issued by Russian scientists on the website of the space observatory Tesis, the storm Read more

Polish president died in air crash (video)

Polish President Lech Kaczynski and another 131 people traveling with him to commemorate mass killing of Polish officers during World War Two died on Saturday when his plane crashed on landing in western Russia.

“On Saturday, President Kaczynski’s Tu-154 airplane crashed when landing near the town of Pechorsk, Smolensk region, in heavy fog,” Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for the Russian Prosecutor General’s Investigations Committee said. “There were 132 people on board the plane, including the president and his spouse.” Read more

Pictures to dictator Joseph Stalin’s in Moscow

Mayor in Moscow be decorate the capital with Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin’s portraits during the celebrations of victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two despite a clear signal from the Kremlin.

“When they say the Moscow mayor wants to decorate the entire city with Stalin’s portraits - this is a lie. In fact, from the 2,000 different types of decorations, only ten will depict Stalin among other marshals of Victory. Two thousand and only ten of Stalin. Read more

Speaking about human rights in USA

Since the United States of America likes to list what it perceives as human rights abuses in other countries, in a holier than thou, intrusive, arrogant attitude, let us then list the human rights abuses in the USA and then we can make statements about throwing stones and glass houses. In short, the internal situation is so catastrophic that there are no basic human rights in that country, because people are not free to walk around at will. The delinquency rates are shocking and the population in prison is among the highest per capita percentages in the world.

In 2008, there were 4.9 million violent crimes Read more

The stealing of innocence

Forgiving is, above all, forgetting, sublimate, and not rarely victims look over their offenders, often the most ruthless. However, this is preceded by understanding that nurturing hate is counter-productive, although (very much) human and understandable.

But concerning violations by pedophile priests, those very ones self-proclaimed God’s representatives, the victim’s pardon is virtually impossible because the scars of such atrocities are imprinted in their psyche, the immeasurable stealing of innocence will mark them for a lifetime.

So, there’s no sense in the pope’s pardon plea, especially as he and the Church itself did their utmost to conceal and protect from legal punishment and from public scrutiny the authors of such felonies, Read more

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