Facebook Shutting Down March 15?

Are rumors about Facebook shutting down march 15 true? CNN does not think so. Read more at :

Facebook NOT shutting down March 15

However can there be smoke without fire? If not shut-down is the hype and buzz indicative of some other announcement by Facebook?  The Facebook IPO? Or does Mark just plan to give his employees the day off as he may be planning to get married on that day?

Jain Silk, Ahimsa Silk

Interesting article from the WSJ:

Taking the Violence Out of Silk

Do you know how many silkworms are normally killed to make a silk sari? Kusuma Rajaiah, a 55-year old government officer from India’s Andhra Pradesh state, does: “Around 10,000.”

Mr. Rajaiah estimates that around 15 silkworms are normally sacrificed to produce a gram of silk yarn. For years, he’s been battling against what he describes as the “cruel killing of millions of innocent worms.”

But there’s no need to give up silk: Mr. Rajaiah has long come up with an alternative. He realized the lure of silk was too strong to persuade people to give it up altogether so he came up with a technique that spares the life of the silkworm.

Kusuma Rajaiah displayed a fabric woven from nonviolent silk yarn. He’s the man who invented “Ahimsa” – or “nonviolent” – mulberry silk, a fabric which has since reached temples in Tamil Nadu and red carpets in Hollywood. Read more...

Is Wikileaks a CIA creation? Is Julian Assange a CIA agent?

While the party line is that Julian Assange is a terrorist deserving the same punishment as Osama Bin Laden there are some others who suspect the very veracity of the leaks :

"this latest wikileaks cache seems to be a plant by the Americans. There is nothing truly revealing about the cables. Everything I've seen so far is basically what the US would like to say but can't do so officially because of diplomatic and political constraints. I think our man Assange has been snookered. "

"the merit of content leaked by "Cablegate". Nothing that we don't already know - Iran's nuclear ambitions, corruption in Afghanistan, Pakistan's coziness with terrorists, Middle East's distrust of Iran, Putin's an alpha dog, etc. etc. C'mon! If this is what US Ambassadors and Embassy staff are typing back to State department, then it's a huge waste of taxpayers' money, cause we can read these things in NY Times/Washington Post! Cablegate is the National Enquirer version of world diplomacy – American style."

Difficult to sift fact from fiction. What do you think the truth is? Are these leaks for real? or are they a plant in the greatest information hoax ever to happen since a dead body washed off the shore of Spain during WWII ("Operation Mincemeat")







   

The Great American Clampdown

The great American clampdown

From the Times of India

How is US, the world's most powerful, richest, most technologically advanced country dealing with Wikileaks, a band of computer whizkids and journalists?

• Stop their website
• Stop their funds
• Drag them into legal cases
• Disinformation & threat blitz

Why is a Tata Nano like a Ferrari ?

What could be similar bewteen the cheapest car in the world and one of the most expensive ? Apparently both the Tata Nano ($2800) and Ferrari 458 Italia ($275,000) are plagued by the same issue of the engine catching fire

What Ferrari, Nano Have in Common

The humble Nano is keeping illustrious company indeed!!

Of Birds and Bees......or is it Bees and Birds

We've heard of birds delaying flights, this time it is the turn of the bees.....


Bees delay flight, boarding suspended for over 10 hours

The Great Game: Deja Vu in Afghanistan - Same game, different players

Interesting perspective on the Afghanistan Imbroglio:

The Great Game