Experimental Evidence for Synchronization to a Musical Beat in a Nonhuman Animal

Creating a nation for Jewish people is like creating a colony for people with leprosy. I am not saying Jews are diseased or lepers but the West, by helping Israel exist, convinced Jewish people that they were better off living somewhere away from everyone else. And put an end to the centuries old 'Jewish problem.' Something that goes against all the lessons of World War II.

The Zionist movement selected an inhabited piece of land through a decision based on fanatic interpretations of old religious texts. They decided to put the original inhabitants, who didn't fit into the new colony, in a big prison.

They learned to fear the people inside the prison because they became prisoners.

The two state solution is not really a change in any situation. Basically the prison will remain the same, with guards and barbwire and the sign on the front gate will be renamed. This will only be the case, if the prisoners recognized that there is a legitimate leprosy colony out there and that it has the right to exist, and by doing so they will be giving up any hope for freedom.

The problem is, you see, there are no reasons to have leprosy colonies anymore. There is a treatment for it and people can very well live with everyone else in the community. Likewise, it seems that nations with more diversity are fairing better in many ways. Diversity is what drives countries now to become more inventive, entertaining and socially just. It is pointless to have a state with only one colour.

This is why I think the Israeli prime minister and perhaps many Israelis are stupid. They can't see that they have been tricked into perpetuating a disfunctional, oppressive and boring state through nationalistic means.

I work with lots of refugees. Many of them experienced torture and escaped horrors in their homeland. Helping them overcome their psychological difficulties, make them feel they are safe and telling them that there might be hope in the future is hindered by their financial situation, lack of free medical care and education, xenophobia, sexual harassment and unemployment.

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Microsoft has blocked access to Windows live messenger (i.e. Hotmail webmail and MSN chat) to people living in Iran, Syria, Sudan, Cuba and North Korea. The reason is that the company suddenly realised that it doesn't do business with countries sanctioned by the U.S. At the same time, Iran blocked Facebook ahead of the presidential elections because a candidate is using it successfully for his campaign.

Microsoft's decision doesn't mean that people in those countries can't only communicate over IM. It means they can't also access their email including their archived messages.

Ok, I understand that Iran did this because it lacks confidence. But why did Microsoft do this now?

I said this earlier and unfortunately I did witness a part of it on Youtube and Vimeo and it is horrible.

• Sign a petition against the killing.

I know petitions are of no value when it comes to changing policies here. But they make you feel a bit better.

Or perhaps not.

Sorry to bring this to your attention again, it is very depressing.

UPDATE: Thanks to Lobna for pointing out that I am challenged in arithmetics! The title of this post should be either 300 thousand or 300,000.

One additional reason to love Disqus:

Twitter is a fast growing service that millions of people (including all of us here at Disqus) use to easily update and get updates from friends. We recently released the ability to tweet out comments for commenters with a Disqus Profile. This allowed people to share their comments on Twitter and bring in new voices to the conversation (see this in action).

Today, we released a new feature for publishers: Twitter Sign-in.

Fortunately, with such a descriptive name, there’s not much explanation needed. It is what it sounds like: sites are now able to allow people to use their Twitter profiles to leave comments. And yup, these commenters will also be able to tweet out to their updates. No Disqus Profile necessary.

In short, disqus allows your visitors to comment with their Facebook, Twitter or Disqus accounts or if they prefer they can leave anonymous comments or links to their blogs. It also collects reaction from different sites like Friendfeed, reddit, etc..

Visitors can choose to tweet their own comments to involve more people in the conversation.

Blocking porn sites is not the main issue here, there are ways to circumvent censorship and if people want to watch porn, and they do, they will resurrect VHS.

A chart from Google Insight showing the search for the term "sex" and "سكس", originating from Egypt and from 2004 till now. The annual dip in search, marked with the red R, coincides with the month of Ramadan.

This ruling is like legalizing the monitoring of people's thoughts and controlling what they want to see. Perhaps tomorrow they will want to control what you think of too.

I understand that a court can make the production of pornographic material in Egypt illegal, which is currently the case, because of the possibility of abuse of minors and women through trafficking, etc..

Another problem is the blurry definition of "obscene sites" that is described in the ruling as sites that "destroy the values of the family and society that injects its poisons and spreads vice." I am sure that inclusion of political thought considered by the government as astray is next. Didn't this already happen?

In the UAE they keep on blocking and unblocking Flickr because some nude or semi-nude photography. Which is not pornographic by any means. The UAE reduced Flickr, the best photo sharing website in the world, into a valueless site.