If you are wondering who is behind HourEleven, this interview will be a good start.

T-Shirt Time

Picking up on Cre8d’s post about ad-jamming, For What it’s Worth comes up with some slogan ideas of his own.

Opera 7

If you are using the new Opera 7 browser you might want to read this.
They are working to fix the gaping holes.

Smallpox

UK medical researchers are using grid computing technology to help find a cure for smallpox.
The universities of Oxford and Essex are working with IBM to create a global grid of PCs to help find a drug that will treat victims of the killer virus.

The project will link 2 million PC’s and handle 15 million queries a day.
There is a vaccine for smallpox but no known cure. The results will be delivered to the US Department of Defense.

United Devices’ software is already being used in similar Oxford University projects targeting cancer and anthrax research, and IBM is working with Oxford’s e-Science Centre to use grids for tackling breast cancer.

China
Voice of the Martyrs says it has obtained a top secret Chinese government document proving a systematic crack down on churches and believers.

Bureaus were directed to “set up full files; recognize influential people and illegal meeting places.” They received further instructions to clearly identify legal and illegal church activities in order to take action against those “which are organized by freelance missionaries, which are overseas infiltration; and prepare to terminate them.

You can check out the documentation for yourself and register your view with the Chinese Embassy in your country.

ABC Documentary
ABC will air the Micheal Jackson interview tomorrow night, after paying 3.5 million pounds. It has caused quite an uproar in Britian after 15 million people watched it. Jackson is being investigated by the district attorney of Santa Barbara County, in California. I found this remark by a Scottish psychologist telling.

In my opinion, this is a man who is using children to meet his own needs. It seems he finds it impossible to relate to normal, emotionally mature human beings so he has turned to children and animals to meet his own emotional requirements.

His difficulty in relating to people his own age probably stems from the emotional and physical abuse he suffered as a child, and the fact he grew up in the spotlight of fame. I see a damaged man who has not had the chance to develop to his full potential in an emotional sense. Jackson’s relationships with the mothers of his children - two by ex-wife Debbie Rowe and one conceived using a surrogate mother - further illustrate this. Rather than create a family environment, he is taking these children away from their mothers almost from the moment they are born. That is a terrible thing to do to a child, which has a basic right to know its biological parents, unless one of them poses a threat. What kind of father does this? Not a healthy individual.

Jackson’s wealth and fame have shielded him from official investigation which such behaviour would attract if exhibited by less influential individuals.

The problems with Americans is that they are obsessed with fame. If a jobless man on a housing scheme in Edinburgh did this, police and social services would be in there instantly - and rightly so.

Media Readies for War
While Colin Powell addresses the UN today in Bagdad, US and International media outlets are forking out a lot of money to be on site. For weeks now The Iraqi Ministry of Information has been building a press centre. The ‘costs’ being paid to the Iraq government are in the article.

The New Religious America
America’s religious landscape has changed dramatically over the past 30 years and is no longer a “Christian” nation according to this article in JewsWeek. There are more Muslims that Episcopalians and Presbyterians, and Los Angeles has the most complex Buddhist city in the world with more practitioners than most of Asia.

Jordon Cooper is back blogging with a trimmed down look and content.

Bloggedy blog finds he has a great deal in common with blogger Karen Neudorf, the editor of Beyond Magazine. And he finds her views on blogging and the point of it all, similar to his own.