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    1. World Poverty Map - Creating a World Without Poverty - Esquire

      How good politics can be instrumental for good economy.

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    2. Omegle

      Omegle

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    3. Code Obfuscation

      By Binit Thapa

      “Real Programmers don’t comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to read.”

      Obfuscation: confusion resulting from failure to understand, mystification….

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    4. Lenny

      Not much to write today but I have moved back to Debian, having installed its latest stable release (5.0) named “Lenny.” I used the CD image for installation instead of DVD and the installed…

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    5. "There are only 7 billion people on the planet, and only about a billion on the Internet. Every fact about a person (are they male or female? Where they live? Do they listen to Brian Eno?) slices that number down by a significant fraction. If you have enough facts about a person, (33 bits of independent facts, it turns out, because log 2 7,000,000,000 = 32.7) you can determine who they are."
      —Websites that collect and republish seemingly innocuous facts about their users are often vulnerable to data mining.
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    6. The seduction of “Free Tibet”

      Just ahead of the Beijing Olympics, a group of white men were discussing Free Tibet in a Thamel pub. Sitting next to me, they seemed to make some interesting points about why Tibet should be free…

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    7. Linux Journal Tech Tip Video Contest

      Linux Journal is a leading magazine on GNU/Linux and free/open source softwares. The yearly Readers’ Choice Awards announced by the magazine are considered to be an authoritative list among Free…

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    8. Nepal’s untapped wealth

      Nepal’s poor economy has never had the opportunity of a sensible political leadership. Especially since the civil war in the 1990s, it is in total disarray. The peace-process is only existent in…

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    9. The load shedding conspiracy

      For the whole of a country to remain without power for more than 2/3rd of a day- every day; a catastrophe of sorts should have had occurred. Only if the country in question is not Nepal. In…

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    10. Diversity in Darkness

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      One reason why I haven’t been able to blog frequently is the latest improvements in the load-shedding schedule (of which I have now lost track). The improvement took the duration of…

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    11. "That certainly didn’t take long to have the rhetoric fail and the reality take charge."
      —Slashdot | MS Silverlight To Stream Obama Inauguration Events
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    12. Girls Growing Up Too Fast
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    13. Stones thrown at Prime Minister Prachanda's convoy

      What you sow is what you reap

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    14. Germany's Solar Experiment

      A perfect example from Germany. In the wake of Nepal’s dreadful Power Problems (16 hours of power cut coming in about a month’s time: http://bibekpaudel.wordpress.com/2008/12/19/more-darkness/) , I wish our leaders learned something while they travel abroad. Of course, they never will !

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    15. The Top 10 Everything of 2008 - TIME