Jihad: Not just an American problem

Russian hostages butchered, this DESPITE Russia's lack of support for deposing Saddam Hussein and penalising Iran.

Paris Riots: The Game

The one game where Frenchies aren't getting their asses kicked by the Nazis..

Instead they're kicking their own ass.

Seems like it needs Medal of Honour to runthough.

Laptop on a stick

Program that'll allow you to cram all your internet settings, emails, MSOffice settings, and other programs, straight onto your USB hard drive or flash disk! Now all I need is more than 16KB free on my portable hard drive...

I've already got GTA:VC and Warcraft III running off my portable, so email and more important things are the next most logical steps!

With software like this, who needs 3kg laptops?

Hat tip: NYTimes

Chechen Leader sold out for $55

Maybe the Americans should try bribing heroin addicts in Iraq!!

Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev was shot during a raid on a hideout in his Chechen hometown of Argun, nine miles east of Grozny. He had been planning a terror attack in Argun to coincide with the Group of Eight summit of leading industrialized nations in St. Petersburg in mid-July, the Moscow-backed Chechen premier said.

Wearing combat fatigues, Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov posed for TV cameras next to a half-naked bloodied body identified as the rebel leader's. He said a close associate of Sadulayev's tipped police to his whereabouts for the equivalent of $55.

"He urgently needed to buy a dose of heroin, so he sold his leader for heroin," Kadyrov, flanked by his lieutenants, said with a grin.

Jayantha Dhanapala

You wouldn't have guessed it from my lack of blogging about it, but there is a Sri Lankan at the 'forefront' of the hunt for the next UN Sec-Gen.

Betting men are putting him ahead of all the other candidates. He is certainly facing criticism. Some of which is unfounded, especially the criticism that 'he can't solve problems in his own country so how will he be able to solve global conflicts?'.

The Sri Lankan conflict is a particularly entrenched one. Unfortunately not all world issues are easy to solve, and no country is totally free of problems. Also, let's not forget that the LTTE is the third deadliest terrorist group in the world, and invented the suicide bomb. Quite formidable opposition that would make negotiation quite a tough ask. Also, under that logic we wouldn't even think of employing an American to the post, or any counter-terrorism post, simply due to the mess in Iraq.

Having said that, I am skeptical about Jayantha Dhanapala's chances. He is a UN insider at a time when the UN needs reform, and despite being the forerunning Asian candidate he won't have the backing of many Asian Countries: India and Pakistan will both be fielding their own candidates, and ASEAN will be backing a doomed Thai candidate.

Still him being Lankan has got to count for something. Sri Lanka has issues with itself but none with outsiders. It's a country that manages to simultaneously have military agreements with Israel AND openly support the PLO AND gets on well with both Pakistan and India (minus the Tamil part). In terms of a candidate who comes from a country that offends no one, he can't be beat.

Do these look like Ivory Coast fans to you?!

Caption: Ivory Coast fans have been enjoying the atmosphere

(Actual caption from BBC World Website)

PS3 in trouble

An extremely worrying leak.

Pakistani Govt uses Hotmail

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Maybe the reason they aren't catching enough terrorists is that their hotmail inbox is full! (look at the email addresses they use on the contacts section of the poster!)

Hat tip (inadvertently): BBC World