July 2005 | Iskablogs :: Auto, Gadget and Tech News

TODAY'S LINKS * The avatar versus the journalist : Making meaning, finding truth * Bangladesh bans poultry from five more countries * ...

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THE BATTLE OF IDEOLOGIES Fareed Zakaria pinpoints in a Newsweek article: "Like all ideologies, radical Islam is a phenomenon of the ed...

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ON ROOTS OF TERRORISM In an article published in the New York Sun, Daniel Pipes asks " What do the terrorists want ?"He thinks tha...

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ON RELIGION AND TOLERANCE On BBC World's Hard Talk Extra , presenter Gavin Eslar introduced pundit Ravi Shankar as the famous living In...

Photo sharing, unplugged

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Posted by Beth Campbell, Picasa team Picasa is great for managing photos, but I also use it for ordering prints and photo gifts. A lot of m...

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TO FEAR OR NOT TO FEAR "Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears." A sign in Nottinghill tube sta...

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MUMBAI FLOOD Dhaka experienced heavy rains (156mm within 24 hours) early this month. The excess downpours inundated nearly a quarter of the...

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MORE TASLIMA This news has been gathered from Taslima Nasrin's website : Taslima was not allowed to read her poem 'America' dur...

More of what I want

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Posted by Sean Knapp, Software Engineer A lot of you have personalized your Google homepage since we introduced it on Labs in May. Since t...

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TODAY'S OTHER LINKS * Arundhati Roy's opening speech in the 'World tribunal on Iraq' * Zimbabwe On the Edge of the Abyss . ...

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SOUTH ASIAN BLOG ROUNDUP Here is today's round up of some of the blogs of South Asia. Bangladesh: 'BDeshini' has some thoughts ...

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UNITE AGAINST TERROR The devils in many disguises are striking everywhere , everyday , indiscriminately killing innocent peoples of all race...

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INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY The news is coming to light that the South Asian-looking man killed by plain cloth British secret police on th...

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EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS OF BANGLADESH VIA FLICKR Green landscape & village, countryside, Bangladesh ( via Faruque in Flickr ) Flickr is the b...

Preliminary Review Elete Electrolyte Water

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This is a preliminary review of ELETE Take this review with a grain of salt because each one of us is an individual and what works or doesn...

Legs coming back a little

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Rode the rigid 8speed today at the pond. Only a middle ring on it, so going up Beauty was tough. That is a fun bike. It feels like I'...

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MY VOICE ADDED TO GLOBAL VOICES I have been awarded author status in the Global Voices Blog. This is my first post in that blog. Wish me l...

Fork update

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Shining a flashlight from the bottom of the inner leg instead of the top visibly shows a ledge scribed into the inside of the stanchion leg....

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ISLAMOPHOBIA - MYTH OR REALITY Kenan Malik writes : Ten years ago no one had heard of Islamophobia. Now everyone from Muslim leaders to anti...

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DHAKA - ODE TO ALUMINIUM Rockstar, blogger & poet Mac writes a hilarious poem slating Bangladesh capital Dhaka's ugly pretty ‘beaut...

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NOT IN THE NAME OF ISLAM "..Whoever kills an innocent soul.. it is as if he killed the whole of mankind, And whoever saves one, it is a...

Ride with Nick Martin

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Cool new pro Mountain biker BLOG Ride with Nick Martin Reading it I was getting goosebumps feeling his nervousness and cheering for him. A ...

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BLOGDATE....FROM THE ARCHIVES Do all virtual relationships transform to real life relationships? There are already many fictions and movies ...

Test drive this hybrid vehicle

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Posted by Lars Rasmussen, Maps Engineer Can't decide between looking at a map of your house or a photo of your house? See both at once w...

LSAT PrepTest 40 Section 1 Question 22 Explanation | Logic Games

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I didn't write the following blog post. It was already on the blog when I took over the URL. The following blog post may contain mistake...

Testing my loyalty

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Been having problems with my 2004 Manitou Black 80 SPV. The 04 damper had problems with a sticky SPV valve, and also there was a fair amoun...

Feeling like crapola

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Sat and Sun were HARD days. Mon, Tues completely off the bike, not by choice mind you, had to work w/o any chance to ride. Yesterday, on th...

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TODAY'S LINKS * Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) has a blog . * The smallest linux computer in the world. * Blind faith , not poverty, is the...

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STATE AND RELIGION Bahraini blogger Mahmood reports that Bahrain has taken primary steps to separate Mosques from the state. He quotes the ...

Moon Children

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Posted by Larry Schwimmer, Software Engineer This adventure started with my birthday wish on a Post-It note. So how do you launch a project...

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A TEST OF INTELLECT Answering the question "how USA should respond if terrorists struck several U.S. cities with nuclear weapons",...

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KABOOM! HERE IS YOUR BUDGET HARRY POTTER Anna of Sepia Mutiny writes that it took 48 hours the pirated version of the new no. 6 volume of ...

A cycling love story

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There is a lot of love in cycling. The people, the components, the framebuilders, the rides, etc.. Since this is a cycling BLOG this story...

Staying Alert

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Posted by Naga Sridhar Kataru, Software Engineer If you track information on a batch of discrete topics all the time like I do, managing you...

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DESIGN UPDATE I have installed my own tagcloud plugin Meghmala and placed it on the bottom of my sidebar. Its a nifty tool which searches ...

Married cyclists and the Doghouse

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Single cyclists usually don't spend much time in the dog house. If you are a married cyclist than you know the way to the dog house. I...

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AN ARTICLE ABOUT BLOGS IN THE DAILY STAR The Daily Star's weekly technology supplement, 'StarTech' has published an article ab...

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KOLKATA, SAFE HEAVEN FOR BANGLADESHI TERRORISTS A Probe news magazine report profiles Bangladeshi criminals' activities in Kolkata. It...

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CHAOS IN IRAQ It does not get worse than this. Some 15 suicide bombers has struck within 48 hours killing hundreds of innocent civilians and...

Chris Farley Moment

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Remember that episode of SNL where Chris Farley is interviewing Paul McCartney? You know where he was pulling at his hair and hitting himse...

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POWER OF THE HEARTS Atiqur Rahman, nicknamed Hridoy (heart) is a bright student of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology ( BUE...

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TAGGING ISLAM TO TERRORISM Charukesi writes about a disturbing trend emerging in Flickr where members are tagging picture of the London B...

Yeah Horner!

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What a nerve racking end to the Tour. I was up, pacing around, couldn't sit still. Oh man, just willing Horner and Chavanel to the end...

Leadout intervals

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Did some leadout intervals on the trainer this morning 6reps of 20sec on 20sec off. Start at a low cadence, pick hard enough gear to ramp u...

Finding great ramen nearby

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Posted by Ken Tokusei, International Product Manager You may have seen our Local and Maps products that help you find businesses and maps ...

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MAKING OF A SUICIDE BOMBER The truth is coming out. The alleged four London suicide bombers are young, second generation British and Muslim...

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TODAY'S LINKS * We are 'not afraid' of what happened in London. * The logic of suicide terrorism . * Bangladesh ranked top bei...

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WISDOM Sadiq is one notable Bangladeshi blogger who is searching wisdom from all the religions and even from the atheists. In his blog ...

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MY FIRST POST IN ASIAPUNDIT Go check out my first post in the Asiapundit blog. It is a South Asian blog roundup.

Thanks for playing

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Posted by Matthew Vosburgh, Google Video Software Engineer Google Video searches a rapidly growing database of network TV shows and uploaded...

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NOT WELCOME ANYTIME SOON In 2000, Bangladesh hosted India to play their first ever test match after getting the test status from ICC. Five y...

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