Freedom of speech vs Terrorism ?

When Fitna was released by liveLeaks.com , the Internet stood up and clapped. I just noted this msg from the liveleak team

"Following threats to our staff of a very serious nature, and some ill informed reports from certain corners of the British media that could directly lead to the harm of some of our staff, Liveleak.com has been left with no other choice but to remove Fitna from our servers.
This is a sad day for freedom of speech on the net but we have to place the safety and well being of our staff above all else. We would like to thank the thousands of people, from all backgrounds and religions, who gave us their support. They realised LiveLeak.com is a vehicle for many opinions and not just for the support of one.
Perhaps there is still hope that this situation may produce a discussion that could benefit and educate all of us as to how we can accept one anothers culture.
We stood for what we believe in, the ability to be heard, but in the end the price was too high."

I wonder how far people will go to protect religious ideologies ? What is the most extreme behavior ?

Fitna the movie

I took some time (15 min) to watch the much debated movie Fitna on  LiveLeak

Its the most incredible documentary that I have ever seen in my life. This movie is raging thru the internet and within hours many millions will be viewing this.   Ye to verify the digg effect

Radical Islamic forces will now create a lot of tension in the EU's , is what I predicate. This will be another battle ground. This movie is an eye opener and at the same time is also a pot stirrer. Time will tell ..

The red string: The cultural history of a Jewish folk symbol

Research paper on the 'Red String" .   Via Avi
Sure beats anything put out by the Kabbalah Center - Madonna will be jealous :)

Whats OYSR ?

"The OYSR is where I let Scoble mess around with all the new hype applications like Facebook and such and if he is still using the product after a year, I'll look at it."  -

Herschel — March 18, 2008 @ 1:34 pm

Feather Painting Amazin !!

This is  just awsome !!

A Nonpartisan Joke

A Nonpartisan Joke

FINALLY, A NONPARTISAN JOKE THAT CAN BE ENJOYED BY EVERYONE AND IT IS
POLITICALLY CORRECT!!

While walking down the street one day a US senator is tragically hit
by a truck and dies. His soul arrives in heaven and is met by St.
Peter at the pearly gates.

"Welcome to heaven," says St. Peter. "Before you settle in, it seems
there is a problem. We seldom see a high official around these
parts, you see, so we're not sure what to do with you.

" "No problem, just let me in," says the man.

"Well, I'd like to, but I have orders from higher up. What we'll do
is > have you spend one day in hell and one in heaven. Then you can
choose where to spend eternity."

"Really, I've made up my mind. I want to be in heaven," says the senator.

"I'm sorry, but we have our rules."

And with that, St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down,
down, down to hell. The doors open and he finds himself in the middle of a
green golf course. In the distance is a clubhouse and standing in front
of it are all his friends and other politicians who had worked with him.
Everyone is very happy and in evening dress. They run to greet him, shake
his hand, and reminisce about the good times they had while getting rich
at the expense of the people. They play a friendly game of golf and then
dine on lobster, caviar and champagne.

Also present is the devil, who really is a very friendly guy who has a
good time dancing and telling jokes. They are having such a good time
that before he realizes it, it is time to go. Everyone gives him a hearty
farewell and waves while the elevator rises...

The elevator goes up, up, up and the door reopens on heaven where St.
Peter is waiting for him. "Now it's time to visit heaven." So, 24 hours
pass with the senator joining a group of contented souls moving from cloud
to cloud, playing the harp and singing. They have a good time and, before
he realizes it, the 24 hours have gone by and St. Peter returns. "Well
then, you've spent a day in hell and another in heaven. Now choose your
eternity."

The senator reflects for a minute, then he answers: "Well, I would never
have said it before, I mean heaven has been delightful, but I think I
would be better off in hell."

So St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down to
hell. Now the doors of the elevator open and he's in the middle of a
barren land covered with waste and garbage. He sees all his friends,
dressed in rags, picking up the trash and putting it in black bags as more
trash falls from above.

The devil comes over to him and puts his arm around his shoulder. "I
don't understand," stammers the senator. "Yesterday I was here and there
was a golf course and clubhouse, and we ate lobster and caviar, drank
champagne, and danced and had a great time. Now there's just a wasteland
full of garbage and my friends look miserable. What happened?"

The devil looks at him, smiles and says, "Yesterday we were campaigning .
. . Today you voted."

The Erricsson Boat

I just visited the Ericsson Office Canada. Very Impressive. (that's all I can say :)-hope I get the gig) , and here's my Mug Shot.

And Btw , a casual conversational factoid for my readers. At times, the Ericsson boat(s) are closer to a satellite then to the shore !!

tweets that make you hmmmmmmmm

Some of my Fav's of Feb tweets, that caught my eye (comments inline  for some).  Jan's is here


ev Meeting over. No one showed up. :-) 06:29 PM February 15, 2008
Gidge U know your neighbors had a good party when there is a shirt covered in vomit next to their car. Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiice. 10:37 AM February 17, 2008
factoryjoe The Internet is serious business. 03:11 AM February 18, 2008
randymorin On the weekend, my 4 yr old daughter told her mom when woke up in the morning that she need to check her email. 08:30 AM February 20, 2008
anildash english-only advocates also purport to believe in free markets, yet they don't think english can compete without legislation mandating it 05:49 PM February 21, 2008
ThomasHan K, so which one of you two's health care plans is gonna fix me of my cough. Now! 06:22 PM February 21, 2008
 (during Live debate between Dem Candidates)
graywolf @jowyang you aren't naive enough to believe all of the people who say they are women online really are women are you? 04:02 PM February 22, 2008
vaspersthegrate In nature, no two things ever really touch each other. You don't sit "on" a chair. There's an electron layer of repulsion. Heard on CSpan. 01:39 PM February 23, 2008
shelisrael Snow falling pretty heavily. Quite beautiful, My Italian loafers are pretty much screwed. 04:50 AM February 26, 2008
ryancoleman ... @erinpcoleman - nope... can you grab me a beer while you're down there? 08:45 PM February 26, 2008
(He must be on 'puter, she must down in basement and they are communicating via twitter ?
thirtydaes 6 weeks without a murder qualifies Newark for the longest streak without a murder since 1961?? WTF? 12:03 PM February 27, 2008
joshk SriSri Ravi Shankar - "The first thing we do in life is breathe, then cry. The last thing we do in life is breathe, the others cry." 08:25 PM February 27, 2008
rhh Snow, sushi and Blue Rodeo. How very Canadian. 05:38 PM February 29, 2008

missrogue "Love is in us. It's deeply embedded in the brain. It is our challenge to understand one another." Fisher #TED 05:39 PM February 29, 2008
onepinktee "Love is in us, deeply embedded in the brain. Our challenge is to understand each other." Helen Fisher #TED 03:39 PM February 29, 2008
(the above two tweets meade me think of 'deju vu" and matrix movie - both twittering the exact (nearly) same thing, at the same moment , both using mobile devices and both inspired by the same input statement . How rare that is - think about it carefully- both physical  brain and motor activities must have been near identical to produce near identical results at nearly the same time, check the UTC time stamp)

Personality Report !!

Here's a NAKED PETER  report results for a Kolbe -A index profiler. It's fun to see new methods and other paradigms on personality profiling.

The last time I scored as an  INTJ on the Meyer Brigg's outline .

Hey , please take some time and browse thru, there's audio too.. so this makes it an interesting report  !! ... and while it , please drop a comment on what you think !!

Thanks in advance !!

Newest family member - Kian Carl Müller

Con'grats to Carl and Judith !!!

Now my cousin (Neela)  has her hands full !!

IAM LEGEND -THE ALTERNATIVE ENDING

Why did Warner actually release this ending ?? it would have have been a better story line !! [Thanks to Alex Billington ]

Raw Footage of Prez Bush

Heres PRez Bush waiting for John McCain. A lot of Tap dancing. He does not say "pardon me" he sez "huh ?? thats so kinda unreal for a gentleman !!

2 years ahead of the curve !!

I just got a comment on my old blog from James

Heres what he had to say :)-

" completely agree with you. I just got a blackberry Curve and I love how well the googletalk integrates with the rest of the phone and main inbox. Funny that you were way ahead of the curve a whole 2 years ago."

yep, thats the good old me....however that was old media.. and in todays time and space, its a whole new ball of wax

2000'th tiwit

ShanZan,

wanted an alert for making her 2000'th twit, so here one for her :)-

2000 Twit

 ShanZan,

wanted an alert for making her 2000'th twit, so here one for her :)-

A-listers -Are they really ??

I am on twitter more then blogging stuff. However, at times I see things that make me wonder are these so called A-listers really in the loop ? or do they just know ow to market themselves ?

Take a look at this thread of conversation that I picked up on twitter wrt to the A320

 TechCrunch @jasoncalacanis - wow. i agree. http://tinyurl.com/26daw8 9 minutes ago from web in reply to JasonCalacanis
JasonCalacanis omg drop everything and watch this scary video of an A320 landing... very scary. : http://tinyurl.com/26daw8 19 minutes ago from Mahalo Follow
 peterdawson to them that want liveleaks.. http://tinyurl.com/2dy73d about 2 hours ago from web

Now the time dates are in UTC /Zulu time for each of these twitters. At times, I think I am ahead of the curve on the news ..Jason has the all the MSM links.