Political People matrix

Political People matrix
Originally uploaded by heyrog.

They are all here, men, women whose decisions affect the way we all live.

African immigrants return home with their expertise

African immigrants return home with their expertise

Ocean 11, 12...and now 13!?! with Pacino

Pacino joins Clooney's gang

Galloway's eBay auction sabotaged :: BBC

This is freaking funny, first he has been called a cat and now his eBay auction sabotaged: "Galloway's eBay auction sabotaged"

Black Hat & BMW

BBC made a grave mistake in referring black hat search engine result manupulation as SEO in its article on bmw.de black hat.

"A BMW spokesman admitted the company used the doorway pages, a practice known as search engine optimisation and banned by Google."

It has however been rectified, thanks to benniog on SEO Chat who issued a complaint and got the article changed.

"A BMW spokesman admitted the company used the doorway pages, which are created to do well in searches for particular phrases and direct users to a final website."

A more detailed article on the BMW's use of Black Hat can be found on the Times Online. There's also another article on the Times Online about black hat techniques to avoid. BMW has however been reinstated: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=BMW.de&btnG=Google+Search


times_google Originally uploaded by kunlay

London Streets on the Internet :: Street Sensations

Know & browse all major London shopping streets from your desktop
good stuff I use before taking off for shopping.

Climate Predicts Malaria Peaks

Interesting article from Red Herring about a scientific breakthrough of predicting malaria. It will definately help African countries hard hit by the epidemic and most importantly curb alot of deaths Climate Predicts Malaria Peaks.

“Interannual climate variability is an important determinant of epidemics in parts of Africa where climate drives both mosquito vector dynamics and parasite development rates,”

“Hence, skillful seasonal climate forecasts may provide early warning changes of risk in epidemic-prone regions.”

Steve Jobs Unvieling the iPod nano

Although this event was old (Sept. '05) they are however lovely pics, check the link out of Steve Jobs Unvieling the iPod nano: "Visual simplicity: Steve Jobs does it again"

Puppies used in Colombian drug runs

Reuters Video Story: "investigation began a year ago when Drug Enforcement Administration officers and police in Colombia found six puppies with scars on their bellies at a makeshift veterinarian clinic on a rural property"

Map of African Hunger

Interesting one here ! The map of Africa categorised by hunger. Its really crazy and gets me thinking that in places like Sudan 4 million+ people are hunger striken here