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Jimmy Engineer is an artist and humanitarian personality from Pakistan. I was so pleasantly surprised to watch an interview by Sajid Hasan on ARY. Sajid Hasan, a famous Pakistani actor and writer, is an amazing guy himself. Jimmy Engineer is such a clear thinking person with great ideas and I hope more people listen to what he has to say. His analysis of the political situation in Pakistan was spot on, in my opinion. He’s a talented artist. Check out some of his art work here.

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Microsoft’s Worldwide Telescope is one of the most useful free applications to come out of software giant recently. The application is an educational powerhouse for all things related to space exploration, which happens to be one of the most intriguing human desires - to explore the cosmos. The application runs on Windows and presents an planetarium like view of space with pictures mapped in a Google Earth type user interface where you can zoom in and out and navigate from one planet to another, from one galaxy to another. It would be easy to get lost in space, so to speak if it weren’t for the many navigational tools present in the application. The amazing amount of data and the incredible ease of use in this application illustrates the possibilities that Microsoft could open up for education in all kinds of innovative ways. I have used this application on and off for the past few months and found it to be just the best experience in education about space. And to make it so intuitive and packed with features is simply dumbfounding. All in all an excellent effort from Microsoft that showcases the best in science and technology our age has to offer to the masses free of cost.

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Cracked iPhone

Originally uploaded by magerleagues

Yikes, it hurts just to look at these photos of cracked iPhones.

Priceless work of art. Very well done, with authentic audio from a John Lennon interview by a 14-year old kid.

Obama’s campaign has set up a web based email list to get first notification of the running mate announcement even before the press gets it. Sign up here. What a unique move from a candidate for the white house, using technology to reach out the population! Great publicity tool as well.

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Huan Huan - 2008 Olympic Mascot

Originally uploaded by Jeremy-G

The Beijing Olympics begin tomorrow. Should be an exciting couple of weeks.