Gongol.com Archives: March 2007
Brian Gongol


March 27, 2007

Graphics Graphic of the day: Mysterious Sightings

Threats and Hazards "UN fails victims in Iran"
Human Rights Watch says the UN Human Rights Council has given up on a plan to monitor Iran for human-rights abuses. Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, and Zimbabwe decided to end the inquiries. Argentina and France dissented.

Business and Finance What would Warren Buffett do?
A list of ten tips extrapolated from Buffett's behavior

Computers and the Internet Gmail crashes...for hours and hours on end

Business and Finance Coke successfully persuades its own lawyers that their own company is nuts
In pulling a "Candid Camera" on their own lawyers, though, aren't they just setting their legal counsel up to expect that anything someone brings up in the office could be a joke?

Computers and the Internet Using an open-source approach to checking up on politicians

The United States of America A review of reasons to oppose the "Real ID" Act
It's a terrible law, much like the streak of stupid laws that a British journalism student sought to break during a US tour

News The Stardust comes tumbling down
(Video) Implosion of a Vegas landmark

News Iran still holding British sailors

Weather and Disasters Researchers think between 4% and 39% of planet will be "novel" (new) climate regions by 2100
They also think that somewhere between 4% and 48% of existing climate regions will change. Pat Sajak says the politicians making waves about the issue ought to do something (personally) about it.

Health In-vitro fertilization creates $60,000 two-father families
Related: In a very low-probability event, a pair of quasi-identical twins turns out not to share all of their genes

Business and Finance What to do when the market is down

Humor and Good News Yeah, baby: Go-go stewardesses

Humor and Good News More fun with the Chavez/Castro love-in
(Video) Google Current has a little fun with their "Whazzap?" incident

Water News Even wealthy countries can have water troubles

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