This might explain why some people refuse to use google ads.

Although it sounds like something out of a James Bond Film, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization is a “mutual security organization” (military alliance).  It consists of several strong military powers from the eastern hemisphere including China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.  Most people assume that it was formed to counterbalance NATO and prevent America from interfering in the eastern hemisphere.  I never learned about this military alliance in High School and the existence of this organization rarely, if ever, gets reported in the mainstream media.  There is no official way to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, but several countries including Pakistan, India, Iran, and Mongolia have joined on as observer countries.

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This guy is awesome.

It’s got suicide bombers, political kidnaps and intercontinental war. It’s got filthy propaganda, rampant paranoia and secret treaties and the Axis of Evil is a spinner in the middle of the board

This game is RISK+Monopoly on crack.  Each player starts out as an empire and can start taking over the world through the acquisition of land, oil, and cities.  One player will end up being declared a terrorist through the axis of evil spinner.  The terrorist player will then work on destabilizing the other players.

This game has created a large amount of controversy and has been banned by most retailers and can only be ordered online through the website.  I want to try this game, but the $58.00 asking price is way too much. (Btw, I apologize for the lack of posts, I went camping for a week.)

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Imagine not making friends with a guy because his name tasted bad.  Although this sounds like something out of a science fiction novel, it actually happened to one person.  James Wannerton, from Blackpool, has a condition called synaesthesia.  Synaesthia is a condition where two senses are stimulated at the same time.  So for James, whenever he saw or read a word it would stimulate his taste buds.  He actually hated being around certain people because of the way thier names tasted.  James didn’t realize that he was special until he became a teenager and started opening up to other people.

‘Food names don’t necessarily bring the taste of the food. For example, the word oyster triggers the taste of chocolate.

‘I have actually stopped eating out with other people because their conversation creates so many different tastes in my mouth that it ruins my enjoyment of the food.

I got this article from Daily Mail.  Check out the link to read about more people who have weird disorders.

Yeah, this video pretty much sums up my opinion of facebook.

Want to know if a person is nervous or relaxed, happy or sad, just by looking at thier body posture?  Check out the bio motion lab.  The program emulates how a person would walk depending on different emotions, how much they weigh, and whether they are male or female.  Check out the website here.

This is definitely going to show up as a joke in Apple’s next commercial.  During the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, many of the special effects were digitized.  (They were fake projections.)  China’s plan to create special effects using computers backfired.  This looks really bad for Microsoft.  Especially when they are trying to convince people that Vista really isn’t that bad of an Operating System. (It isn’t).

From Gizmodo.