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This is not a new issue. It has been going on for more than 2 years, and must stop now!

Today hundreds of thousands of lives hang in the balance in Darfur, Africa. Currently the death toll exceeds 100,000 and may be more than 400,000. And the crisis continues...

Tens of thousands of civilians have been murdered and thousands of women raped in Sudan’s western region of Darfur by Sudanese government soldiers and members of the government-supported militia sometimes referred to as the Janjaweed.

Cute bunny Nabaztag (click to visit the website, it will make you feel really delightful~) has been upgraded since mid December.

Yep, the cyberworld the real world is more and more closed to each other!

Before, the rabbit can perminatley connected through WiFi to the internet, observating information, music, email, web articles ,which you will care in everyday life. Then it would tell you whenever you have new mails or informations by its movement or voice. It can even singnal you the up and down of Nasdaq stock market with its right or left flash. Cute, talktive and informative!

Now, its second generation could "smell" information or object, using the RFID function with the belly button, and thus able to react with object's action...say the doors open, and the rabbit will happily annouce your message has come, etc.

A funny and useful demostration video is available

Rave MA student Faustino Moneta from Argentina, aka ....and his group hits chard's in America latina MTV with "Papina is what I want." Song let say is about, Ivy - Toxicodendron radicans of an Native American or better to say American Indian grown up and his secular affairs with the world around him. The lead singer writes to MAZINE: I would like to share with you, the new video clip PAPINA our band has just finished, which will be transmitted in MTV, which is cool for us. Although its in Spanish and no one will understand a thing, it doesn't matter because lyrics arent too deep to be honest. Banda Jamon crudo You see here the new song of Banda Jamon crudo, the band cured ham, Papina is what I want.

WiiLi HowTo
How to get open source software up and running on the Wii is full of posibilities, you can now make a Wiimote work on a mac, pc, or any bluetooth enabled device, interestingly the the Wiimote is the best piece of tek to come from a games company for a long time and opens up a wide range of possibilities in interaction with other devices using opensource software such as Processing and linux. The Wiimote is now at the top of my shopping list, gotta play with it http://www.wiili.org

It has been interesting to see how computers and associated technologies are used by the multitude. Like most things the wax and wain in popularity. According to electric news.net blogging is set to peak next year. It has been seen that blogging is set to reach its nadir next year and will then level out at around 100m active bloggers.

In November, blog tracker Technorati revealed that 100,000 new online journals, are being created every day, with 1.3m posts blogged daily. However, It is predicted that the blogging boom may be close to ending as over 200m individuals have already given up on the activity.

Recently I went to see the Sonic Bed. The bed is described by the artist, who created it, Kaffe Matthews as an “instrument in the collaborative research project, music for bodies”. It’s a successor to her Sonic Chair and consists of a king size bed (maybe tank is a better description), which has a number of speakers around it. These are connected to a computer program that generates sounds and vibrations. Visitors are invited to lay down and experience the various vibrations and noises that surround them.

That’s me in the fetching blue jacket.

Have you ever wanted to be someone else? Now you can ¬– you can have a alternative persona. What would you like to be? With Second Life secondlife.com, you can!

Second Life was launched by San Francisco-based Lindon Labs in 2000 with backing from the founders of eBay and Amazon, Second Life is taking off with nearly one and half million members. Their website describes it as ”a 3D online digital world imagined, created and owned by its residents.”

One of the US’s biggest travel search engines, Kayak.com is launching in the UK next month – kayak.co.uk. Unlike online travel agents such as Expedia.com, there’s no booking fee for users, instead users after viewing listing flights and hotels, they click through to the providers site. The US version is rated in the top 20 sites in the country. I gave the beta version a test drive.