Tuesday, May 29, 2012

stuff below the fold take two


Good or bad? old maps used to say "here be monsters", but now Google Earth shows you the truth...

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new malware "Flame" collects information about you.
heck, Facebook already does that....
but this seems to be cyberwar against everyone in the Middle East...

more here
and HERE.
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hurricane seasons starts in the US with a bang.
hope my son in Florida is okay.

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Don't mess with Zarifa, housewife, sheriff, village leader, and mother of 15
 
"I tell the men of the village, all I want is your prayers," she says. "When you have a problem, I'll speak to the government on your behalf and whenever there is any disturbance at night-time, I'll pick up my gun and come to your house to see what's going on."
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The UKGuardian has an expose on third world kidney buying...

and note the in-betweens and doctors get rich, not the donors.
Headsup Secondhandsmokeblog.

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The "scary new disease of the week" is an oldie but goodie: Chagas disease.
more here.

It's mainly spread via insects that suck blood from you that hide in you in those nice, romantic looking hovels so beloved of the green types,  or via blood (to unborn children, via transfusions).
Prevention? Insecticides, and screening of blood transfusions and pregnant women.

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