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Stop the Clash of Civilizations

A powerful plea for mutual understanding. Fav'd on YouTube by Mr Michael Franti of Spearhead himself!

Let's all root for Eric junior!

There are times in life when reality puts a mirror in front of your face and makes you count your blessings. Today was one of those days. In particular it was the gallery put up on flickr.com by Eric Snowdeal...
The gallery shows the progress his son Eric Junior is making in after being born a bit too early in the hospital. Very touching, let's all root for the little brave fellow (and his family)...

See the gallery at Flickr... or visit his weblog.

UPDATED: Send the little fellow a postcard:
Eric C. Snowdeal IV
NICU - 8th floor
c/o. St. Mary's Hospital
200 Jefferson Ave. s.e.
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
USA

Any clearer view on the world now, Georgy?

Indeed, this guy is unbelievable. Can't seem to see the difference between a producer and a handkerchief. And he still doesn't know that the cameras keep rolling during the commercial breaks, like he's never on TV before. You sure do not want to be leading his campaign this year, what a liability this moron is... A well, from the people who gave you invasions without UN mandates comes the Human Kleenex...
See the clip here.

Thanks to Totally Flabbergasted.

What a mistakeà to makeà...

A Hamas suicide bomber blew up two armed Palestinians who tried to rob him at gun point in the Gaza Strip.

Hamas claimed the “stickup men” worked for Israeli intelligence, while Palestinian security forces said the two were ordinary thieves.

Rather than give up his explosives, the bomber detonated them, killing himself and the two robbers near the border fence between Gaza and Israel.

Read and learn on who not to rob...

Google goes public (with tongue in cheek)

Google, the primary search engine available on the web, has filed for a Public Offering (IPO). The planned offering is $2,718,281,828 dollars. This amount is in line with Google's known sense of humour (as the image for the Dutch Google on this day already suggests). My friend Bert Boerland immediately recognised the number.

For those not blessed with a PhD, the number is Euler's number E, which is used as the base for natural logarithms. Hilarious!

Full filing here.

The founders also sent out a letter to their staff, inspired by Warren Buffets essays. Which made me smile again, as Warren is one of the foremost investors in the world.
Letter from the Founders (Financial Times)