Leftlane News reports that all is not well in the world of high-tech gadgetary in cars. It looks like thieves are using laptops to crack the wireless code that controls the keyless entry systems for cars.
I’m glad my car still uses a good old key.
Category: Around the world
Help the Invisible Children in Uganda
Three young film makers went to Uganda to make a documentary. They came back with a story to tell and a promise made to the “Invisible Children”.
Invisible Children is a grassroots effort to create awareness and provide help and education to the children in Uganda who are being kidnapped and forced into the rebel armies as child soldiers.
You can make a difference by joining the Global Night Commute on April 29, 2006 or by purchasing the Invisible Children DVD and showing it to everyone you know.
These two video clips will have an impact on your life and what you can do to help: Proof and 100 Percent.
Tablets in School
The Show on 10, a new Microsoft initiative reports on a private school in Seattle where every student has a Tablet PC. Tablets in School is one of the latest videos from this up-beat daily program.
I think this is a great idea. The challenge for business will be to be ready to allow these students to make use of all the technologies they have been exposed to when they enter the workforce.
Go to bed married, wake up divorced
This has got to be the one of the most ridiculous things going on in our world. A story in Reuters Go to bed married, wake up divorced reports on an India couple who’ve been caught up in a very peculiar Islamic law related to marriage.
Sohela Ansari told friends that her husband Aftab had uttered the word “talaq,” or divorce, three times in his sleep, according to the report published in newspapers Monday.
When local Islamic leaders got to hear, they said Aftab’s words constituted a divorce under an Islamic procedure known as “triple talaq.” The couple, married for 11 years with three children, were told they had to split.
The religious leaders ruled that if the couple wanted to remarry they would have to wait at least 100 days. Sohela would also have to spend a night with another man and be divorced by him in turn.
I can not believe how some societies have twisted the sanctity of marriage.