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Ok, one last post of today

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
by William

Ok, one last post of today (read below for real posts) before I go to sleep.

I just want to cheer on for digg and the freedom of speech

Vive La Revolution!

Make Google Maps your maps

Thursday, April 5th, 2007
by William

From Google Maps:
Create personalized, annotated, customized maps using Google Maps

Creating a Map
Finding Your Maps
Deleting Your Maps
Adding and Editing Placemarks
Adding and Editing Lines
Adding and Editing Shapes
Saving Search Results
Adding Rich Text or HTML Descriptions
Adding Photos
Adding Videos
Sharing Maps
Public and Unlisted Maps
Viewing Your Maps in Google Earth
Your maps can contain the following:

Once you have created a map, you can:

Wifi soon on airplanes!

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
by William

According to WSJ, Airlines (not sure which yet) will start turning their planes into WiFi hotspots in the beginning of 2008. The service is provided by AirCell and the cost will be a mearly $10 or even less! Well, you can’t count so much on the internet speed and if you are already thinking of VoIP on the plane then forget it; it’s blocked already!

The Official Article

10 Online ways to save the world

Sunday, March 18th, 2007
by William

Yes, you can do it too. Just follow these count downs. Well, at least, I am doing the 2nd one.

Quote – http://valleywag.com/tech/dogooder/10-online-ways-to-save-the-world-244836.php:

10. World Community Grid: When you’re not using it, your computer can fight AIDS, muscular dystrophy, and cancer. After you download and install this program, the World Community Grid uses your computer’s idle time to process data for any of several world-changing medical projects. WCG treats every computer as part of a giant processor: your computer downloads data, crunches it, and sends the info back to the Grid. If a crucial part of a medical cure is found using your computer, WCG will let you share the glory.

9. The Hunger Site: The Hunger Site and its siblings (the Breast Cancer, Child Health, Literacy, Rainforest, and Animal Rescue Sites) are simple to use: Click the button, and it donates the value of 1.1 cups of staple food (or saving 11.4 square feet of rainforest, or other granular donations). The sites are legit, and they raise their funds by hosting ads (many of which advertise other world-saving causes). You can click each site’s button once per day.

8. MoveOn.org: Political decision shape the world, but the people shape political decisions. MoveOn.org needs signatures for online petitions. Their causes include protecting Internet freedom, stopping Iraqi troop escalation, and saving seniors from paying unfair Medicare penalties. At MoveOn, you can do more than sign a petition; you can join a rally or host an event.

7. Meetup: Get into offline activism through a meetup like Mother Jones in San Francisco, the Empowered Black Women’s Network in NYC, or the Father’s Rights Meetup in Missouri City.

6. Trickle Up: Donate money (even just $25) toward microloans to businesses in the developing world, like this program in Mali, the third-poorest country in the world, where Trickle Up helps entrepreneurs go from earning under 50 cents a day to $7 a day.

5. Prosper: This loan site helps groups of people support individuals or businesses and get a return for their investment. Help a family consolidate their credit or help someone start a small business.

4. Distributed Proofreading: Project Gutenberg puts public-domain books online for free. But between scanning the books and offering the text files, someone needs to proofread. That’s what the volunteers at Distributed Proofreading do. All you need to do is offer a human eye to a scanned page and its computer-made text version. No grammar or spelling skills required; just make the new text match the original. Give the world something good to read.

3. CivicSpace: Take a cause of your own online, get online donors and volunteers, and manage a site without fussing over every technical detail. Or if you work with technical details, become a vendor or developer.

2. Your blog: Write an entry about the sites above and encourage others to take action. Or promote world-saving sites through Digg, Twitter, Reddit, Delicious, or a pay-it-forward site called Six Degrees.

1. The Mars Society: The world’s shot. War, famine, all the misery on Earth. Forget it dude, let’s go to Mars.

Earth at Night – Earth Lights

Sunday, March 11th, 2007
by William

Bigger version can be found at:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights_dmsp_big.jpg

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