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SlumDog Millionaire Child For Sale by her Father
Very sad….The child featured in the movie is apparently up for sale by her father for $295,000.
Help Us Obama!!!! Scenes of the recession (PICS)
The state of our global economy: foreclosures, evictions, bankruptcies, layoffs, abandoned projects, and the people and industries caught in the middle. It can be difficult to capture financial pressures in photographs, but here a few recent glimpses into some of the places and lives affected by what some are calling the “Great Recession”.
Happy SysAdmin Day! (Friday July 25 2008)
Today is SysAdmin Day, otherwise known System Administrator Appreciation Day. This “holiday” was first celebrated in 2000 and takes place annually on the last Friday in July. The goal, according to the SysAdmin Day website at sysadminday.com, it to give the guys and gals who maintain your computer network some love.. and perhaps some nifty gifties!
One of the Saddest Pictures You’ll See
A dog, alone, in a tropical storm, in the middle of the street, sitting.
iPhone Root Password Cracked
The root and another “mobile” account password of iPhone OSX 1.0, have been obtained from a passwd file and been cracked by the famous fellows from hackint0sh.org. The hash turned out to be old plain 1979 DES. Sadly this is not of any use so far, as the iPhone does not (yet) present us with a nice and tidy login screen to explore it’s system.
Vegan Parents Starve Baby to Death on Soy Milk/Apple Juice Diet
Amazing. And sad.
“Vegan parents guilty in infant murder 6-week-old died of starvation after being fed diet of soy milk, apple juice”
Chinese may have intentionally poisoned pet foods
investigators are saying the chemical that has sickened and killed pets in the United States may have been intentionally added to pet food ingredients by Chinese producers.
Massacre at Virginia Tech: 25 Confirmed Dead
At least 25 people are dead in what may be the biggest mass killing on a college campus in American history — and the death toll may rise. Police at Virginia Tech say that the shootings happened at a dormitory and a classroom on opposite sides of the university campus in Blacksburg, Va.
Story of Slain VA Tech Prof Who Saved Students – Holocaust Survivor & Hero
Liviu Librescu a professor at Virginia Tech, ran to the door of his classroom and blocked it with his body – preventing the gunman from entering but getting shot to death himself as a result. His actions saved many of his students. Librescu is survived by his wife of 42 years, Marlena, who was with him in Virginia.