New Weapon Against Crime in the South

"New Weapon Against Crime in the SouthCrime in the South's fast-growing cities has a negative affect on economic development and social and community harmony. In Africa, with one fifth of the world's population, for...

Release: NowPublic Launches New Website and Features

""I get asked, on a daily basis, about the trust factor in user generated news. The new features NowPublic just released are our answers, and, frankly, I think it gets to the heart of the matter in a way that traditional media has never been able to - by being transparent and...

14 Things that Microsoft Needs to Do with Windows 7

"Microsoft made no secret out of having, for some time now, been cooking the next iteration of Windows, a translucent development process with very little transparent areas including details such as multi-touch, support for 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, and the evolution...

Code of Conduct and strongly advertising behaviour

When using words like free, easy, instant, etc, better be carefull. If your intended message is too commercial NowPublic might take it as spam by some super editors.On Code of Conduct their also want you to be accountable, which means do fix your mistakes so NowPublic wont...

Increasing Executions, Death Sentences in Iran

Increasing Executions, Death Sentences in Iran by Albert N. Milliron Iron Mill News Service February 6, 2008 - (Washington) - Sean McCormack spokesman for the United States Department of state...

Kenya’s stolen election

"Kenya’s stolen election The presidential election in Kenya has triggered major violence. Tribal rivalries have been ignited, taking upwards of 300 lives so far. The incumbent President, Mwai Kibaki, has claimed victory over Raila Odinga. Strangely, the parliamentary and...

Transparent Concrete: Now you can see through walls!

"Remember the dear little ghost, Casper, who could walk through walls? Now you can too have close to similar powers! Yes, although you will have to wait a while before you can walk through walls, for the time being,...

Transparent String Envelopes as a Travel Organization Tool

The envelopes also do not take much space, they are just a bit larger than the papers themselves and not much heavier either. If you place the most important one (like the schedules, flight codes, maps) on the outside you do not even have to take the paper out, you can see...

Scientists create transparent, thin plastic strong like steel

""It`s as green as you can imagine," he said, adding that the material is also quite cheap to produce. The plastic could be used to reduce the energy required to separate gasses in chemical factories, improve...

Blue Areas On The Red Orb :: Oblate Spheroid

"A deeper analysis of the images taken on Mars surface (JPL website) stir the debate on whither there is standing water … puddles of water on Mars. In a report to be published in the journal IEEE Xplore, R. L....

Inquest into LAPD clash with May Day protesters begins

A May Day protest in LA that turned violent has become the subject of an investigation for the LAPD. A preliminary report was just released, and is to be followed up by the Police Chief going in front of council today. The main issues seem to centre around a lack of control...

At What Price, Democracy?

At What Price Democracy? From the United States to Scotland, from to Turkey to Syria to Israel and from Zimbabwe to Nigeria; they are all examples of Democracy gone awry. A growing culture of impunity that...

THE ART OF DEFENSE: Design strikes defensive posture

Not so long ago, architects were obsessed with the notion that globalism, the Internet and sophisticated new building technologies were opening the way for a more fluid, transparent landscape in which walls would...

Jimmy Wales Gives Talk on Free Culture, Transparency, and Search

Following Cory Doctorow's talk about 2 weeks ago on, "The State of the Copy Fight", Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia gave a lecture during Evan Korth’s Computer’s and Society course at NYU on "Free culture,...

HMRC. Review of Links with Large Business

The Chancellor has today announced the outcomes of the 2006 Review of Links with Large Business, chaired by Sir David Varney, former Chairman of HMRC. The review addresses key business concerns through proposals which will deliver: * Earlier certainty about the tax...

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