SCRAPs, AD.2008.04.22.ICT - Earth Day

Saved Copies of Reports, Articles & Presentations (SCRAPs), AD.2008.Apr.22.Tue.ICT
-- 4/22 Earth Day, and two days after 4/20 (eh)

Today: Earth Day AD.2008.04.22.ICT, more on CNN's Richard Quest(ionable ;)), Iraq, US Presidential politics, global food crisis, cannabis, Canada, Linux, Vietnam, Saigon and a few bleeding-edge sci-tech, biz, Internet and just generally amusing new RAPs, plus a fantabulously hip Hindi dance vidi, the Oneness Temple Dance. See BeLow "ToDay's Pix".

Now: Over 21,500 SCRAPs from the last year-plus, since March 2007, linked from this blog, almost 4Mb-worth as a single page. See front page... Wait, what? That just got stopped. The front page now just shows the latest week's posts. (Still, the full 4Mb-worth again just loaded from scratch in just under 53 seconds today, in what's now late night [Tp] HCM City (ex/or Saigon), Vietnam [Việt Nam].)

ToDay's Pix

From one of the web pages listed next

Some Earth Day 2008/4/22 SCRAPs from today's full list (BeLow):

• Earth Day 2008: Everything You Need To Know - Living on The Huffington Post
• BBC NEWS | Africa | Liberians drop rice for spaghetti
• GMOs Back on the Agenda: Canada's Bill C-517 » Celsias
• BBC NEWS | Americas | UN food chief urges crisis action
• UN Day of [Buddhist] Vesak (UNDV) 2008 in Vietnam
  
• The Age of Scarcity?
• Climate Change: Comparing the Candidates
• Economics Unbound Throw Malthus Off the Bus! - BusinessWeek
• Stop waiting for 'leaders' to act on global warming | csmonitor.com
• Leading article: The dilemma of global warming - Leading Articles, Opinion - The Independent

Another Vidi Very Much Worth Embedding:
The Oneness Temple Dance
From Global Oneness

ToDay's SCRAPs

• 20080422215342: The Future of Oil - New York Times
• 20080422215335: The American way of bioterror - an A-Z of ricin crackpots [printer-friendly] | The Register
• 20080422215327: More Bells, Whistles and Packets of All Sorts - New York Times
• 20080422215118: Your Very Own Meditator
• 20080422215110: AVG revamps free security scanner | The Register
• 20080422215102: PingMag - The Tokyo-based magazine about "Design and Making Things" » Archive » Art On Tokyo's Construction Fences
• 20080422215051: Linux To Power 20% Mobile Phones By 2013 -- Linux -- InformationWeek
• 20080422215043: Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm
• 20080422215035: Get Smarter: 12 Hacks That Will Amp Up Your Brainpower
• 20080422215026: 6 Intelligence Myths Exposed
• 20080422215016: Earth Day 2008: Everything You Need To Know - Living on The Huffington Post
• 20080422214942: BBC NEWS | Africa | Liberians drop rice for spaghetti
• 20080422214934: GMOs Back on the Agenda: Canada's Bill C-517 » Celsias
• 20080422214925: BBC NEWS | Americas | UN food chief urges crisis action
• 20080422214916: Welcome to UNDV 2008
• 20080422174122: The Age of Scarcity?
• 20080422173720: Climate Change: Comparing the Candidates
• 20080422173713: Economics Unbound Throw Malthus Off the Bus! - BusinessWeek
• 20080422173704: Stop waiting for 'leaders' to act on global warming | csmonitor.com
• 20080422173655: Leading article: The dilemma of global warming - Leading Articles, Opinion - The Independent
• 20080422173642: Presidential candidates wrestle for votes on WWE
• 20080422173633: baltimoresun.com - Ring Posts: Presidential candidates lay the smack down
• 20080422173624: Silicon Valley life expectancy has jumped from 72 to 80 since 1961. - San Jose Mercury News
• 20080422173616: globeandmail.com: An 'oasis' of 20,000 intrigues under the sea
• 20080422173610: Pay up or risk long battle, Obama told | World news | The Guardian
• 20080422173601: BBC NEWS | Americas | US military recruits more ex-cons
• 20080422173552: Shock pictures: Is this what the Canadian government means by 'humane' slaughter? | the Daily Mail
• 20080422173542: TheStar.com | GTA | Online suicide chat detailed
• 20080422173534: TheStar.com | World | Pirates attack Japanese tanker
• 20080422173526: globeandmail.com: Ontario executives charged with defrauding U.S. military
• 20080422173518: Upcoming.org Founder Creates Fireball (Fire Eagle + DodgeBall + Twitter)
• 20080422173511: Company, bank, stock market briefs Apr 22 -- Vietnam's largest Online News Database by Intellasia
• 20080422173503: VN Index slips to 530.62 pts -- Vietnam's largest Online News Database by Intellasia
• 20080422173454: Grou.ps: All Your Collaboration Tools In One Place
• 20080422173444: BBC NEWS | Business | China shares down 50% from peak
• 20080422173437: Google (re-)branded world's greatest brand | The Register
• 20080422173415: globeandmail.com: Ontario to prohibit cosmetic-use pesticides
• 20080422173408: Malaysia to shelve space program due to lack of finances : Asia World
• 20080422173340: VietNamNet - Rules on beauty contests to be amended
• 20080422173332: VietNamNet - IT study branches not attractive to students anymore
• 20080422173324: VietNamNet - Environment hot topic for writing contest
• 20080422173316: VietNamNet - Cholera under control in HCM City
• 20080422173308: VietNamNet - Ceiling interest rate doesn't benefit anyone: bankers
• 20080422173300: VietNamNet - Paper fever anticipated
• 20080422173252: VietNamNet - "Dad, help!"
• 20080422173211: Managed By God - Forbes.com
• 20080422110931: YouTube - Oneness Temple Dance
• 20080422110920: Earth Day: Encyclopedia II - Earth Day - Why April 22?
• 20080422110908: Earth Day: Encyclopedia II - Earth Day - The April 22 Earth Day
• 20080422110856: Global Oneness - The meeting place for Cultural Creatives
• 20080422110850: News Bomb - Earth Day Deception (earthsite.org)
• 20080422110837: BBC NEWS | Technology | Web 2.0 is set for spending boom
• 20080422110821: Maegan Carberry: Are Journalists Enabling the Obama Phenomenon? - Huffington Post
• 20080422110803: Hillary Clinton On Olbermann: Laughs Off 'Unholy Alliance' With Democratic Antagonist Scaife - Huffington Post
• 20080422110744: Hillary Clinton On Larry King: Would "Without A Doubt" Campaign For Obama - Huffington Post
• 20080422110730: Army, Marines give waivers to more felons - CNN.com
• 20080422110715: Ron Paul Supporters For John McCain? | Threat Level from Wired.com
• 20080422110705: Cambodia eyes lucrative European, Chinese tourist trade - Business
• 20080422110657: eFoodAlert.com: Vietnam's Cholera Outbreak - A Structural Problem
• 20080422110643: Vietnam raises car tariffs to 83% to curb imports | Industries | Consumer Goods & Retail | Reuters
• 20080422110630: Vietnam raises car import tax - Forbes.com
• 20080422110615: Bouygues gets 100 million euro order for 200-metre tower in Vietnam - Forbes.com
• 20080422110606: DEA Briefs & Background, Drugs and Drug Abuse, Drug Descriptions, Marijuana
• 20080422110559: The Personal Use of Marijuana by Responsible Adults Act of 2008 | MetaFilter
• 20080422110552: The Associated Press: Police: Manager sold marijuana from drive-through window
• 20080422110540: Marijuana grown indoors can sicken - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
• 20080422110530: In marijuana debate, both sides can point to the science
• 20080422110517: Marijuana 101: School teaches ins, outs of pot
• 20080422110503: ABC News: More Felons Allowed to Enlist in Military
• 20080422110452: BBC NEWS | Americas | Final push for Pennsylvania vote
• 20080422110448: a3midc.jpg (JPEG Image, 700x502 pixels)
• 20080422110435: eSolar, Google-Backed Startup, Picks Up Steam, $130 Million - Business on The Huffington Post
• 20080422110426: Micro Persuasion: A Few Tips for Managing Information Overload
• 20080422110419: State Bank holds its ground against banks -- Vietnam's largest Online News Database by Intellasia
• 20080422110413: Government moves to rein in dollarisation -- Vietnam's largest Online News Database by Intellasia
• 20080422110407: HCM City lot bidder cries foul -- Vietnam's largest Online News Database by Intellasia
• 20080422110400: High rise apartment buildings bring in huge profit -- Vietnam's largest Online News Database by Intellasia
• 20080422110353: Asia's rice crisis -- Vietnam's largest Online News Database by Intellasia
• 20080422110346: Stephen King: Food protectionism could provoke a crisis on a par with 1970s oil shocks -- Intellasia
• 20080422110340: World Bank-initiated contest launched in Vietnam -- Vietnam's largest Online News Database by Intellasia
• 20080422110334: Vietnamese film on largest Asian panorama in Europe -- Vietnam's largest Online News Database by Intellasia
• 20080422110326: Top ten share codes attract foreign investors -- Vietnam's largest Online News Database by Intellasia
• 20080422110318: Survey points to need for reform -- Vietnam's largest Online News Database by Intellasia
• 20080422110309: 13 injured in bomb blast in southern Thailand: police -- Vietnam's largest Online News Database by Intellasia
• 20080422110258: PETA offers $1m for test tube chicken | The Register
• 20080422110243: Ex-bishop wins Paraguayan election; 6-decade rulers dumped - Yahoo! News
• 20080422110227: Stephen Hawking: Alien but primitive life likely - Living on The Huffington Post
• 20080422110214: Redskins Cheerleaders Shake Up Cricket In Modest India - washingtonpost.com
• 20080422110205: Media Generals: Editors Respond to 'NYT' Revelations
• 20080422110152: Lessig leads Net Neut charge in Stanford inquisition | The Register
• 20080422110142: Candidates Head Into Key Primary, Images Battered By Bloggers
• 20080422110130: Pay Attention! Brain Scanners Detect Slip-Ups Before You Do
• 20080422110117: The Watcher - All TV, all the time | Chicago Tribune | Blog
• 20080422110108: The Canadian Press: Ont. creates $500,000 fund for families of patients awaiting organ donation
• 20080422110058: BBC NEWS | Health | 'Outlook worse' for scalp cancer
• 20080422110050: Trigger Happy - WSJ.com
• 20080422110042: Vietnam nips at the heels of Thai tourism (Bangkok Post, Thailand) - 21 Apr 03:00
• 20080422110031: Yellow dust storms getting worse | The Japan Times Online
• 20080422110018: 24% suffer some form of mental ills | The Japan Times Online
• 20080422110004: U.S. hybrid car sales soar whopping 38% | The Japan Times Online
• 20080422105949: Ben Heller: MTV's Real World: Hollywood and the Continuing Descent into "Negativness" - Entertainment on The Huffington Post
• 20080422105937: Still with stupid? - Los Angeles Times
• 20080422105924: Critiquing the Press - washingtonpost.com
• 20080422105914: BBC NEWS | Americas | Capitalism harms planet - Morales
• 20080422105903: Militant Extremists in the United States - Council on Foreign Relations
• 20080422105849: Thought Process Flowchart: CNN's Richard Quest - 236 - News
• 20080422105832: Alter: Adios, Sound Bites | Newsweek Voices - Jonathan Alter | Newsweek.com
• 20080422105824: The Reverse Cowgirl: Letters from Johns and Letters from Working Girls
• 20080422105811: RJ Eskow: "I Have Some Meth in my Pocket" -- A Cable News Personality Told the Truth Last Week - Huffington Post
• 20080422105757: WATCH: John McCain's Fabulous Life - Politics on The Huffington Post
• 20080422105737: Tonya Plank: Step It Up And Finally Dance - Entertainment on The Huffington Post
• 20080422105726: ABC News: Clinton on Iran: If They Attack Israel, We Could 'Obliterate Them'
• 20080422105717: BetaNews | Microsoft and Novell to 'convert' China to Windows and SuSE Linux
• 20080422105706: Norman Solomon: Party Like It's 1932: The Obama Option - Politics on The Huffington Post
• 20080422105656: AP: Clinton's campaign "in the red" -- debts exceed cash on hand
• 20080422105650: "Hyper-Speed" Evolution Discovered
• 20080422105640: Ten typographic mistakes everyone makes | Life, Tutorials | Receding Hairline
• 20080422105628: Retiring Journal editor leaves legacy of storytelling | Rhode Island news | projo.com | The Providence Journal
  
• 20080422105619: CJR: Debits & Credits: 10,000 Words in Search of a Trend
• 20080422105608: Battleground over Globalization - Council on Foreign Relations
• 20080422105555: Catherine Specter: The Way We Word - Living on The Huffington Post
• 20080422105544: Hints of iGoogle Turning Into Its Own Social Network
• 20080422105534: PETA's Latest Tactic: $1 Million for Fake Meat - New York Times
• 20080422105520: Peter Clothier: Food - Living on The Huffington Post
• 20080422105509: Let's Consume Our Way to Safety » Celsias
• 20080422105457: Concerns rising that Fannie and Freddie could need bailout - Apr. 21, 2008
• 20080422105445: Slick wintry highway blamed for fiery crash
• 20080422105434: The Associated Press: Asian Development Bank: Biofuels making food more expensive
• 20080422105423: You Can't Travel Back in Time, Scientists Say | LiveScience
• 20080422105414: CJR: TV News Driven By "Mentally Ill Martinets"
• 20080422105355: Michael Moore Endorses Obama, Calls Clinton Tactics "Disgusting" - Politics on The Huffington Post
• 20080422105329: FT.com / Comment & analysis / Editorial comment - Democrats must choose Obama
• 20080422105313: How We're Wrecking Our Feet With Every Step We Take -- New York Magazine
• 20080422105250: The Food Crisis: "A Perfect Storm" - and How to Turn the Tide » Celsias