Polaris Project

Katherine Chon and Derek Ellerman started the Polaris Project in 2002 at Brown University. From a casual conversation on US history to slavery happening nowadays. Modern slavery is not a well-known issue to the general public, but it’s a very large problem to the whole human population. It’s in fact a global issue. Most of the victims have no means to get out of their situations. I am so glad to see that Katherine and Derek are running the Polaris Project to speak for those who are voiceless. ...

February 4, 2008 · 1 min · birdchan

Nice wallpapers

I found this a very nice website to download wallpapers. URL: http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/index.php?sort=ratings&w=1440&h=900

February 3, 2008 · 1 min · birdchan

MPAA admits mistake, 15 not 44

I found it hard to believe that MPAA made this kind of big error. After all, many bills in the House are based on these findings. However, I do appreciate their honesty. It is not easy to admit this kind of embarrassing mistake. I am not sure if it is a coincident but that, DRM starts to get dropped as well. References: http://www.newsweek.com/id/98009 http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/ 20080122-oops-mpaa-admits-college-piracy-numbers-grossly-inflated.html http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2008/tc2008013_398775.htm

February 2, 2008 · 1 min · birdchan

Book Burro

Book Burro will help you find the prices of the book you are currently viewing from other online bookstores. I have saved $$$ many times with this add-on. URL: http://bookburro.org/

February 1, 2008 · 1 min · birdchan

Better Gmail 2

Updated Folders4Gmail, Macros, and Google Reader Integration; Removed Hide Spam Count, Quota Graph, and the Macros Sewpafly mod which are not compatible with Gmail’s recent code changes. URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6076 Personally, I only need the https feature.

February 1, 2008 · 1 min · birdchan

NoScript

“Winner of the “2006 PC World World Class Award”, this tool provides extra protection to your Firefox. It allows JavaScript, Java and other executable content to run only from trusted domains of your choice, e.g. your home-banking web site, and guards the “trust boundaries” against cross-site scripting attacks (XSS). Such a preemptive approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known and even unknown!) with no loss of functionality… Experts do agree: Firefox is really safer with NoScript ;-)” ...

October 19, 2007 · 1 min · birdchan

Hello world!

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

October 19, 2007 · 1 min · birdchan