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 You know you can't escape the iPhone madness when:

Your schoolmates start having it.

Your classmates keep blabbering about it.

The Blackberries become iPhone converts.

Your buddies go crazy over the free sms application only exclusive to iPhone users.

Even your dad who knows nothing about the iPhone except iPhone, wants one.

A lucid indication of Apple's brilliance in marketing.

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"Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a poor substitute for it. The function of the mere critic is of very subordinate usefulness. It is the doer of deeds who actually counts in the battle for life, and not the man who looks on and says how the fight ought to be fought, without himself sharing the stress and the danger."

- Theodore Roosevelt (1894)

Alternative media is just a start.

From Avaaz.org.


Hi,

I've just donated to help Haitians meet their immediate needs and recover from last week´s brutal earthquake. I thought you would want to join me.

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/stand_with_haiti/98.php?CLICK_TF_TRACK

Here's the original email I received

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Dear friends,  

The worst earthquake in 200 years struck Haiti last week, devastating the capital city, killing thousands and threatening over 3 million people in this desperately poor country.  

Haitians are urgently appealing to the world for help -- we’re already in touch with strong local organisations mobilising community-based relief efforts there. Let’s support the best of these local efforts with a worldwide wave of donations to help meet the desperate needs of those on the front lines of this horrendous disaster. The money will save lives now as well as help people recover and rebuild and we'll be working with organisations that make sure that the flood of international support reaches the people who need it most. Click below to donate: 

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/stand_with_haiti 

Based on expert advice from leading humanitarian NGOs who have been working in Haiti for over 30 years, we'll offer donations to trusted local organizations, including:

   1. Honor and Respect for Bel Air, a big community-based network in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, which is also supported by our friends at the respected Brazilian NGO Viva Rio
   2. Coordination Régionale des Organisations de Sud-Est (CROSE), which brings together some of the most active community groups in the South of Haiti where the earthquake struck hardest. These groups include: women's groups, schools networks and local cooperatives

In 2008, Avaaz members donated over $2 million for Burmese monks to respond to the devastating Cyclone Nargis. Our money made an incredible difference there -- because it went directly to local people on the front lines of the aid effort.  

Times of painful tragedy can bring out the best in us by bringing people together. Let's join with the people of Haiti to help them rescue their communities from this brutal disaster -- act now at this link:   

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/stand_with_haiti 

With hope for Haiti, 

Luis, Paul, Graziela, Paula, Ricken, Pascal, Alice, Benjamin, Milena and the whole Avaaz team

More information:

Haiti devastated by massive earthquake (BBC):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8455629.stm 

Thousands feared dead as major quake strikes Haiti (Reuters):
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUK126337392643._CH_.2420 

Deadly earthquake hits Haiti (Reuters pictures):
http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/slideshow?articleId=USRTR28T0W#a=7 

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"So prove to me that if two plus two is five, then you're the pope," the heckler said.

"Very well," Russell replied. "From 'two plus two equals five' it follows, subtracting three from each side, that two equals one. The pope and I are two, therefore we are one."

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) - "Two plus two equals five, therefore I am the pope."

Extracted from Jim Holt's book - Stop me if you've heard this: A History and Philosophy of Jokes

What does a snail say when riding on the back of a turtle?

"Whee!"

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Cheers.

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-A German participant in the Social Democratic Party's (SPD) Basic Programme initiative