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links for 2006-05-09

  • BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Liberia sex-for-aid ‘widespread’
    “Girls as young as eight are being forced to have sex in exchange for food by workers for local and international agencies”
    Absolutely horrendous to see this sort of abuse. As if these poor people don’t have enough to contend with.
    (tags: africa news children abuse)
  • BBC NEWS | World | Africa | South Africa awaits Zuma verdict
    Whatever the outcome of the rape trail, the most shocking thing will remain the “a shower prevents you contracting HIV” bullshit.
    (tags: zuma africa bbc)
  • BBC NEWS | Business | Yahoo unveils new advert system
    “Yahoo’s new software system aims to let advertisers target potential customers more accurately based upon the words users type into the search box.”
    Erm, kinda like Adwords then…?
    (tags: google yahoo! search searchengineoptimization technology internet webdevelopment)
  • BBC NEWS | Technology | Console giants head for showdown
    “Sony currently dominates the console market, having sold more than 100 million PlayStation 2s, compared to 24 million Microsoft Xbox consoles and 21 million Nintendo GameCubes.”
    Wow, I’d never realised that Sony was THAT far out in front…
    (tags: ps2 xbox microsoft sony gaming games consoles)
  • BBC NEWS | Health | Young ‘still unaware’ of STI risk
    Glad this issue is finally getting some attention. When I first moved to the UK from South Africa, I was outright shocked at how many girls thought that the pill was all they needed. There’s a tendency to forget that AIDS isn’t just a third world disease
    (tags: aids uk bbc sexualhealth)
  • Daily Kos: Re-Improved Colbert transcript (now with complete text of Colbert-Thomas video!)
    Full transcript of Colbert’s Bush-bashing. NSFW, just because you’ll end up laughing your ass off!
    (tags: entertainment humour news politics stephencolbert colbert Bush comedy)
  • BBC NEWS | Scotland | Edinburgh and East | Dolphins ‘have their own names’
    “St Andrews University researchers studying in Florida…”
    LOL, 3 year jolly to Florida from SCOTLAND … I would make up any kinda shit for that holiday too!
    (tags: news science dolphins research holidays)
Posted by delicious @ 12:24 PM on May 9, 2006
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One Response to “links for 2006-05-09”

  1. Marina loves pictures Says:
    May 9th, 2006 at 7:24 PM

    This Daily Kos transcript is awesome, this saves my day.
    Thanks for pointing me to this wonder of pleasure !

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