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Pink Floyd Beats EMI in Creativity Flap | Threat Level | Wired.com
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11 March 2010
Baby who failed to say ‘Amen’ starved by cult
February 23, 2010 - 11:37AM
The leader of a US religious cult was “outraged” when a one-year-old boy did not say “Amen” before a meal and ordered her followers to deprive him of food and water until he died, a prosecutor told jurors on Monday.
Three members of the now-defunct cult known as 1 Mind Ministries are on trial for murder in the death of Javon Thompson, who was around 16-months-old when he died of starvation and dehydration in either December 2006 or January 2007, according to authorities.
After the boy died, the cult members prayed for his resurrection, then destroyed all evidence of his death and stuffed his body in a suitcase, which they hid in a shed behind a home in Philadelphia, Assistant State’s Attorney Julie Drake told jurors.
The cult members - Queen Antoinette, 41; her daughter, Trevia Williams, 22; and Marcus A Cobbs, 23 - are representing themselves at trial. Antoinette declined to make an opening statement, while Williams and Cobbs spoke briefly; Williams in a voice so quiet that jurors, prosecutors and the judge strained to hear her.
Williams suggested the prosecution’s theory of the case was flawed. “Pay attention to details,” she said.
Cobbs pledged that “when the truth comes out,” jurors would realise the defendants are not guilty. “The truth shall set you free,” he said.
The jury of seven men and five women listened intently as Drake recounted how Javon’s mother, Ria Ramkissoon, was recruited into the cult and did nothing to stop her son from wasting away, even though she was “distraught” over his slow and agonising death…
6 March 2010
Picasa Uploader on Facebook
For anyone that uses Picasa (the insanely quick and easy to use photo editor and organiser from, you guessed it, Google) this is a plug-in to upload your pictures straight to Facebook, the same way you already can to Picasa Web albums.
Very useful. Get it.
Presentation of the new Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG as the Official F1 Safety Car 2010
If you're REALLY into F1 . . .
5 March 2010
Professor announces 'Facebook friends' fallacy
A researcher at Oxford University has deemed the amount of friends you have on Facebook is not actually that reflective to your friend group in real life.
Robin Dunbar, Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, has noted that the brain can't actually handle much more then 150 friends, so having thousands of 'trophy' friends on their social network seems to be a pretty meaningless exercise.
150 isn't just a number plucked out of the ether but one which is all part of something called Dunbar's number – an idea developed in the 1990s which is based on how much information the part of the brain used for conscious thought can actually contain.
Like the kudos
"The interesting thing is that you can have 1,500 friends but when you actually look at traffic on sites, you see people maintain the same inner circle of around 150 people that we observe in the real world," explained Dunbar about his findings.
"People obviously like the kudos of having hundreds of friends but the reality is that they're unlikely to be bigger than anyone else's."
Via TechWatch
I fit into this category, but the study sounds about bang on the money!