Admirable. Interesting. Can she really create real reform in Islam?
Penned as an open letter to citizens worldwide, the 34-year-old author and broadcaster, who was named a “feminist for the 21st century” by Ms. Magazine, tackles three issues she describes as the main problems within Islam: the inferior treatment of women, anti-Semitism and the use of slavery in Islamic countries.
Yahoo! News – Canada Author Causes Stir with ‘Trouble with Islam’
A bunch of fun fonts. Some free, some shareware. My favorites so far are BUNNY and YAGO and BREAKSTYLE.
FONTS DOWNLOAD
via Stuart Woodward
Go 6A!
The best service we tried was TypePad. We used the $14.95-a-month “Pro” version but recommend the simpler “Plus” version, which is only $8.95 a month; all you lose are some bells and whistles that a basic user probably won’t miss. (Skip the $4.95-a-month version unless you don’t want to create a photo album.) TypePad’s photo software was some of the strongest, so if photos are going to be a centerpiece of your blog, it’s a good choice. One downside: The instructions are cumbersome and require lots of clicking on buttons.
Decent IBD piece on how cable and DSL broadband in the US will differ on speed and pricing. The cable companies are keeping their rates but are raising speeds, while the DSL companies, who often cannot raise the speed of their DSL services due to the geography of their markets, will compete on price.
- Comcast, Cablevision, Cox, Charter, Time-Warner either have or will be upping their speeds to 2 or 3 Mb/s.
- “As of June 30, U.S. cable firms had 13.23 million Internet subscribers compared with 7.43 million DSL subscribers”
- “Morgan Stanley estimates that only 30% to 40% of Verizon’s Internet customers can get its 1.5 mbps service.”
These figures are pretty pitiful in comparison to broadband here in Japan or in South Korea, where 10 Mb/sec. is often the case and pricing is usually cheaper than the US.
Yahoo! News – Cable Firms Choosing Speed, Not Price, In Broadband Battles