New candiate for 'Love to Hate'

Relax, Bill Gates; It's Google's Turn as the Villain rom NYTimes

"To place Google in context, Mr. Kraus offered a brief history lesson. In the 1990's, he said, I.B.M. was widely perceived in Silicon Valley as a "gentle giant" that was easy to partner with while Microsoft was perceived as an "extraordinarily fearsome, competitive company wanting to be in as many businesses as possible and with the engineering talent capable of implementing effectively anything."
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""Google is doing more damage to innovation in the Valley right now than Microsoft ever did," said Reid Hoffman, the founder of two Internet ventures, including LinkedIn, a business networking Web site popular among Silicon Valley's digerati. "It's largely that they're hiring up so many talented people, and the fact they're working on so many different things. It's harder for start-ups to do interesting stuff right now.""
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"Google recently announced that it would not talk to any reporter from CNETNews.com, a technology news Web site, until July 2006, after a reporter for the site wrote an article raising privacy questions about the information Google collects about individuals.
The company also provoked the ire of many within the blogging world - not to mention snarky comments in Silicon Valley from those thinking Google was behaving like an old-line company that doesn't get it - when earlier this year it fired a new employee who had joked online that the free meals, the on-site gym and all the other perks were a clever ploy to keep people at their desks longer. "
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""I like and respect the Google guys," Mr. Lent said, "but let's just say that their ultimate aim seems to me to be, 'One Google under Google, for which it stands.' ""

:) feminisation

The myth of "feminisation" from Hindu

The ':)' in the subject line is there cause when I read this article I was smiling... No not because I thought anything written in the article was really good or funny. I was smiling because I fail to understand what difference does it make weather it is male or female or black or white or brown person who gets the job, as long as a deserving person is given the job.
Maybe they should devise a way to appoint people for jobs without knowing these things abt them, it might solve some of the problems that arise due to the prejudice people have.

another one creation vs evolution

Grasping the Depth of Time as a First Step in Understanding Evolution from NYTimes

"The universe is perhaps 14 billion years old. Earth is some 4.5 billion years old. The oldest hominid fossils are between 6 million and 7 million years old. The oldest distinctly modern human fossils are about 160,000 years old."
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"Accepting the fact of evolution does not necessarily mean discarding a personal faith in God. But accepting intelligent design means discarding science. Much has been made of a 2004 poll showing that some 45 percent of Americans believe that the Earth - and humans with it - was created as described in the book of Genesis, and within the past 10,000 years. This isn't a triumph of faith. It's a failure of education. "

hmmmmm... and after this?

Robertson: U.S. should assassinate Venezuela's Chavez from CNN

"Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson has called for the United States to assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, calling him "a terrific danger" bent on exporting Communism and Islamic extremism across the Americas."

quotes

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
-- Saint Augustine

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
-- Saint Augustine

quotes

The earth laughs in flowers.
-- E. E. Cummings

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- E. E. Cummings

One more on creation n evolution

In Explaining Life's Complexity, Darwinists and Doubters Clash from NYTimes

It is always intresting to read on this topic :)