I am a 24/7er are you?

I have just received the final version of the call to action for the 24/7 Campaign, which is a campaign to demand better working conditions for migrant domestic workers in Lebanon. I leave you the pleasure of reading the details in the call to action itself.

You can already see that I added the 24/7 badge to my blog, so I am a 24/7er, Yalla join us! ;)

Twenty-four-7.org

Now hollywood stars will run to adopt /buy Haiti children

I so fuckingly knew it! In fact, I was just waiting for some article to confirm it to me. I mean who hasn't read at least one article about Katherine Zeta Jones buying adopting a "poor child" from somewhere that is not white enough to treat children right (over and over again)?And what about Madonna (etc. etc.)?

The latest child abduction adoption news I read was about Queen Latifa saying she's ready to be a parent (via DNA India) and... please lemme quote her words:

Google, Gmail, security and China

So other than the tragic earthquake last night in Haiti, I started work today with the war that Google launched against China. In fact, I first read about it in the Guardian's "Google sends a shockwave through the Chinese internet" by Charles Arthur. I was not satisfied with Arthur's analysis, so I went to one of the links provided to Google's official blog, in which they provided their position in a blogpost titled "A new approach to China." And I thought that would be it for the rest of the day, since we would have to wait for a while to see what would happen. But then, oddly enough I stumble upon another blogpost by Google, this time the Gmail blog, "Default https access to Gmail" where the giant declares that gmail correspondence will be encrypted by default from now on. Though personally I am not sure if this is whole thing is an actual war or just a Media stunt used by Google.

Week in photo

Now in terms of information, the Scientific American remains my site of choice, that is no secret, but there is a site with outstanding charm the National Geographic news!

A very interesting feature of this site is, as it is the case with the Nat Geo magazine, the great emphasis on pictures. Pictures are the neglected child of science, though the early scientists were naturalists, that simply loved to observe nature, the visual part simply faded and lost its initial role, we stoped enjoying pictures as scientists, we simply use them as a means of explanation, clarification. But pictures, can be a great pleasure, that might not help with transmitting knowledge directly (there fore can't be used in those BIG, sophisticated references) but they can play a great role in humanizing science.

Well maybe my opinion is biased in this, being the daughter of an amateur photographer makes me particularly vulnerable to lovely pictures.

But here's a funny use of pictures, in the week in photo category you'd find this week two interesting photos:


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Not bad for a dress made out of condoms! Don't you think? Actually I can say that this is one of the best colorful dresses I have every seen, but the design does seem a bit poor, the model looks like a tank in it. More fit for a children's fashion... But I guess that dressing kids with condoms won't be so socially and ethically acceptable now would it?


Second picture of the week: the tallest guy weds:

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I don't know what does this picture demonstrate exactly...

• Every beast will find a beauty that will love him?


• In most parts of the world, romance is still nonexistent? and marriages are ruled by money and social opression?

Well I get the feeling that both are incomplete, inaccurate and rather naive conclusions, but what is undeniable is that this picture demonstrates the persistence of our circus-like curiosity and infatuation with exoticism as a sign of our normality's superiority and not as a celebration of human diversity.