JERUSALEM - The diary of a 14-year-old Jewish girl dubbed the “Polish Anne Frank” was unveiled on Monday, chronicling the horrors she witnessed in a Jewish ghetto — at one point watching a Nazi soldier tear a Jewish baby away from his mother and kill him with his bare hands.
The diary, written by Rutka Laskier in 1943 shortly before she was deported to Auschwitz, was released by
“The rope around us is getting tighter and tighter,” the teenager wrote in 1943, shortly before she was deported to Auschwitz. “I’m turning into an animal waiting to die.”
Within a few months Rutka was dead and, it seemed, her diary lost.
Articol original: Polish girl’s Holocaust diary unveiled, By ARON HELLER, Associated Press Writer
Care e probabilitate ca el sa fi fost gasit mai demult insa sa se fi asteptat momentul prielnic “lansarii” stirii? Sau, care ar fi fost posibilitatea ca el sa fi fost confectionat ? Dar hai sa nu fim paranoici…
Paranoia e un handicap nici pe departe o virtute, se stie deja. Astept inteligentii autoproclamati sau proclamati de neproclamati sa mai sustina ca scepticismul e si el odovada de inteligenta. Nu-i, nici n-a fost decat in imaginatia unora ce s-au imaginat in imagine de intelectual
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5 June 2007. Happy birthday Vanda, Radio Lynx.
Dedicatie: U2 - Beautiful day
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - If you’ve ever wondered how to give a man-hug, a newly relaunched online video site, VideoJug, is here to help.
VideoJug makes its debut in the U.S. on Sunday, aiming to provide the meaning on everything one encounters in life, if not the meaning of life itself.
More than 15,000 video clips explaining everything from how to tie a Windsor knot to how to cope with chemotherapy accompany the relaunch of the site. An additional 100,000 originally produced clips are promised over the summer.
The site endeavors to answer the question: “How do we do life?”
video jug, videojug
Articol original: Life’s instructions on redesigned VideoJug.com
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Fresh privacy fears have been sparked after it emerged that Apple has embedded personal details into music files bought from its iTunes music store.
Technology websites examining iTunes products discovered that personal data, including the names and e-mail addresses of purchasers, are inserted into the AAC files that Apple uses to distribute music tracks.
The information is also included in tracks sold under Apple’s iTunes Plus system, launched this week, where users pay a premium for music that is free from the controversial digital rights management (DRM) intended to protect against piracy.
The Electronic Freedom Foundation, the online consumer rights group, added that it had identified a large amount of additional unaccounted-for information in iTunes files.
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An Apple spokeswoman was unable to comment.
Articol original: Information hidden in iTunes music files sparks privacy fears, Rhys Blakely, Times Online
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Jessica Cutler, who is a the blogger of the Washingtonienne - a sex-scandal blog - today filed for bankruptcy in New York Court.
Her work at Senate and a book deal with Playboy brought Jessical Cutler some fame, but she lost her job at Capitol Hill.
Cutler is a former aide to ex-Senator Mike DeWine (Republican). She created the “washingtonienne” blog and started to post detailed stories about her sex life with six men, including a Senate colleague and a few generous older gentlement, who, according to her, paid many of her living expenses, reports AP.
The discovery of the blog cost Jessical Cutler to lose her job
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Why is this story about Jessica Cutler important? Actually it is. […] Where does the line cross between online personal privacy and free speech? Perhaps the development of Jessical Cutler’s story may shed some clarity on the issue.
Articol original: Jessica Cutler Online Privacy vs Free Speech, Huliq.com
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