Posts Tagged ‘international’

Amnesty International For China & Olympic Games

Tuesday, July 1, 2008 16:18 1 Comment

Amnesty International released yesterday some viral animations (you can find them at the bottom of the post) highlighting the repression of peaceful protesters and the case of Huang Qi, a cyber-dissident who runs the www.64tianwang.com website. Huang Qi has been detained since 10 June when several men found him at a restaurant in Chengdu and [...]

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Myanmar Hit By Cyclone Nagris - What Are You Waiting For?

Wednesday, May 7, 2008 7:31 No Comments

Everybody is shocked by the new coming from Myanmar. I am reading about 22,000 dead and 41,000 missing. This is a huge disaster that everyone should answer to.
Google raises a hand in the global effort to calm the effects of this catastrophe. There is already a “Support disaster relief in Myanmar” page with google checkout [...]

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Foreign magazine subscriptions

Sunday, January 6, 2008 22:17 2 Comments

Once a month I open my door and I see Wired magazine sitting there waiting for me to read it. I have subscribed to it and there are two reasons for it. Firstly because it comes straight to my house, so I do not have to search it in specialized shops and secondly its by [...]

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The mall plus - online 3d shopping therapy

Tuesday, January 1, 2008 9:46 No Comments

 

The Mall Plus (www.themallplus.com) is a 3d online store designed by a group in New Zealand and it hosts dozens of local shops and their purpose is to expand to other countries.
It has 2 floors each with many stores, all decorated differently. In order to shop around all you need is Flash player.

What was impressing [...]

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