Twitter did not yet catch up in the Middle East as did Facebook. Nevertheless Queen Rania al Abdullah, Queen of Jordan, is now twittering asfter youtubing. And guess why she twittered? to mark Pope Benedict’s visit to Jordan.
This is what she twittered: “Just choppered to airport to receive the Pope. Husband piloting, he got acrobatic to quiet butterflies in stomach . . . told u he was action man!”[link]
Who is she talking to?
TechCrunch reports that Google Morocco has been hacked today for a few hours before it was discovered and corrected.
Interesting. I wonder who hacked it? and why Morocco’s domain name in particular? or was it just a coincidental act of randomness?
Google’s virtual world has launched and it is called Lively. I tried it this morning. Funny. Very cartoonish and has a long way to go, but interesting. I was not happy that I could click on anyone and force them to animate without their consent – so this guy kissed and hugged me and held my hand without my consent. Which made me slap him and kick him in the groin in return – without his consent.
Pretty funny though. Check it out – but you need a google account to log in.
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Update: Google has pulled the plug on Lively. I guess Lively is now Deadly.
And the site had glitches because it was overwhelmed when Mozilla tried to pull off a Download Firefox 3 Day.
Well.. Firefox is still the best.
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From Tom Dispatch and William Astore: Militarizing your cyberspace
Working with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Department of Homeland Security, and other governmental agencies, the Air Force’s stated goal is to gain access to, and control over, any and all networked computers, anywhere on Earth, at a proposed cost to you, the American taxpayer, of $30 billion over the first five years.
…on May 12th of this year, the Air Force Research Laboratory posted an official “request for proposal” seeking contractor bids to begin the push to achieve “dominant cyber offensive engagement.” The desired capabilities constitute a disturbing militarization of cyberspace
…If that’s not enough for you, it’s now proposing a massive $30 billion cyberspace boondoggle, as retired Air Force Lt. Col. William Astore writes below, that will, theoretically, provide the Air Force with the ability to fry any computer on Earth.
Need I say more?