More bugs from Bill Gates

In this strange story, Microsoft founder turned disease-battling philanthropist Bill Gates released a swarm of mosquitoes at a technical conference to spread awareness of malaria.

All Mac lovers will appreciate the irony of Bill Gates releasing more bugs into this world! We speculate that when you have billions of dollars, one afford to do crazy stunts like this without fear of going bankrupt in penalties and lawsuits!

Regardless, kudos to Bill and Melinda Gates for charitable works, especially those suffering from illness directly linked to poverty.

Pope Benedect XVI Channel on Youtube

I guess "Popetube" was a bad idea for a name.

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For the Vatican, it was the latest effort to keep up to speed with the rapidly changing field of communications and new media. For a 2,000-year-old institution known for being very set in its ways, it was something of a revolution.

At the same time, though, the pope warned he wasn't embracing virtual communication without some reservation.

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But he also warned that virtual socializing had its risks, saying "obsessive" online networking could isolate people from real social interaction and broaden the digital divide by further marginalizing people.

And he urged producers of new media to ensure the content respected human dignity and the "goodness and intimacy of human sexuality."

The Church seems to usually be a step behind every new development of communication. I can understand in as much as not willing to fully jump into a trend before understanding its full ramifications. Inevitably though, every piece of mass media has been shown to be a useful opportunity to evangelize. The real genius then, will be the Evangelist who can jump on the NEXT big trend before it happens.

So When Will We Get Censor-Mobile?

TEL AVIV, Israel — For Muslims who just can't fit the five-times-a-day Salah prayer routine into their busy schedules, an Israeli mobile phone provider has a new solution: Mobile Koran.

Pelephone has begun offering a Koran text service that enables users to tap into verses of choice from the Muslim Holy Book at will. For the modest sum of $1.50 per month, subscribers can download what appears onscreen as an actual book of Koran, and scroll through chapter and verse.

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Now I'm curious as to why "Ultra-Orthodox" Jews are forbidden from surfing the net and using data-services...