Archives of Featured Sites: 2005

• Number with HIV highest yet
• HIV on rise in Canada
• AIDS update

• Sex trade:
• UK sex traders get jail time
• Lithuania's sex traffic on rise
• Slavery today

Quote for November: “In the sky there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true."

 - Siddhārtha Gautama (~563 BC-483 BC)
  - Guide to Buddhism | Books on Buddhism

• Down memory lane: November

 Internet tidbits  

• eBay fraudsters sentenced to jail

• Net users told to get safe online

• Using Gmail to...

• Lycos: 10 years of search terms (pure drivel!)

• Poverty in Asia

October quote: “Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful."

 - Siddhārtha Gautama (~563 BC-483 BC)
  - Guide to Buddhism | Books on Buddhism

• Down memory lane: October

 Internet tidbits  

• "Net is dangerous for kids" (no kidding!)

• Silence to end (cell phones on planes)

• Hackers target cell phones

• Complete Windows Trojan Paper

• Poverty in Asia

September quote: “Those who experience the unity of life see their own selves in all beings, and all beings in their own selves, and look on everything with an impartial eye."

 - Siddhārtha Gautama (~563 BC-483 BC)
  - Guide to Buddhism | Books on Buddhism

• Down memory lane: September

 Internet tidbits  

• eBay's 10-yr rise to fame

• Sex differences in media use

• Search engines compete

• Ex-AOL employee jailed for selling to spammers

• TraQ (transfusion medicine resources)

• Niger's tiny victims of hunger

• How to fish  | How to boat

• Cicely Saunders, founder of modern hospice movement has died

  • Her history in palliative care

  • American rhetoric (audio/video -famous speeches)

• Canada has lowest smoker rate in OECD
• Sex trade

  • Trafficking in E. Europe

  • Balkans urged to curb trafficking

  • UK police to help combat Asian sex trade

August quote: “All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything.  What we think, we become."

 - Siddhārtha Gautama (~563 BC-483 BC)
  - Guide to Buddhism | Books on Buddhism

• Down memory lane: August

 Internet tidbits  

• Defining Spyware

• Internet crime hard to curb

• German teenager admits to creating sasser worm

• Sasser creator avoids jail

• TraQ (transfusion medicine resources)

• AFI's top 100 movie quotes

• Trafficking in women: the Canadian perspective (CMAJ, 5 July 2005)
• Review of international healthcare systems (Medline abstract)
• OECD 2005 health statistics and indicators for 30 countries ( Canada)
• African press looks to G8
• Aspects of globalization (BBC)

 Internet tidbits  

• Virus flood threatens home users

• How computer viruses work

July quote: “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."

 - Siddhārtha Gautama (~563 BC-483 BC)
 - Guide to Buddhism | Books on Buddhism

• Down memory lane: July

• Vicious circle of AIDS & poverty

• Home in Kyrgyzstan  (go to #3)

• Housing on Sri Lankan tea estate

• TraQ (transfusion medicine resources)

• Dr. Jack Bowman (In Memoriam)

• Day in pictures (BBC)
• World is flat (great read!)
• World Donor Day (14 June)
  • Events in Canada | Other countries
• What's killing Canadians?
• Pakistani gang rape victim cannot travel abroad
• Slavery in 21^st Century
• Sex trade reliance on forced labour

 Internet tidbits  

• Sex sites get domain (.xxx)

  • Plan called obscene

June quote: “Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."

 - Siddhārtha Gautama (~563 BC-483 BC)
  - Guide to Buddhism | Books on Buddhism

• Down memory lane: June

• World Day Against Child Labour (12 June)

• Lightening load of child miners

• AIDS outpaces prevention in many countries

• "How to..." (computer & tech info from AARP)

• HIV out of control in India

• Medical editors issue guidance on ghost writing (Br Med J 2005 Apr 30)

• The World is Flat

  • Review (Washington Post)

• "Honour killings": Palistinians

  • Jordan | Pakistan | Asia | Europe 

  • Scotland Yard throws out label

 Internet tidbits  

• How to escape phishing nets

• Blogging from East to West

• India's IT prodigals go home

May quote : “Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."

 - Siddhārtha Gautama (~563 BC-483 BC)
 - Guide to Buddhism | Books on Buddhism

• Down memory lane: May

• 11 million children die annually in poor nations

• Introduction to Buddhism

• International Women's Day (photos)

• Causes of human trafficking in SE Europe not being addressed (UNICEF)

• Time has stood still for millions of women in S Asia

• Tens of 1000s raped in Congo

• Obituary - spy who caught Eichmann

 Internet tidbits  Pioneers

• Robert Kahn (internet)

• Tim Berners Lee (www)

• Eric Thomas (listserv)

April quote: “Suppression of desire leads to extinction of suffering"

 - Siddhārtha Gautama (~563 BC-483 BC)
  - Guide to Buddhism | Books on Buddhism

• Down memory lane: April

• State of world's children

• Russian soldier infected with HIV via direct blood transfusion

• Brit woman sails around globe in record-breaking time (more...)

• Word detective (lots of fun)

• Medical encyclopedia

 Internet tidbits  

• Google maps (turn off pop-up blockers)

• Help using maps

• Maps article (ResearchBuzz)

March quote: “There are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is growing old; second, to cease being sick; third, to cease dying; fourth, to deny dissolution when there is dissolution; fifth, to deny non-being."

 - Siddhārtha Gautama (~563 BC-483 BC)
  - Guide to Buddhism | Books on Buddhism

• Down memory lane: March

• Liberation of Auschwitz (27 Jan. 1945)
  • Auschwitz timeline
  • Witness to the holocaust
  • How Germany perceives its past
  • Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum
• How to do just about anything
  • Even store tomatoes
• Feminisation of medicine (women rule!)
• Life Matters Coaching (my cousin's company)
  • Learn about life coaching (BMJ Careers)

 Internet tidbits  Google video search
 To search for the keyword "blood" on the ER TV show, type: blood title:ER

• State of world's children

• Trafficking in people

February quote: “That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen."

 - Michael Harrington (1928-1989)
 | Biography | Excerpt -The Other America (1962)

• Down memory lane: February

• Front pages (use map view - news of tsunami)
• Photos of 2004 (see "winning entries")
• 2004 in review
• Google to digitize entire libraries
• Google zeitgeist (international search trends)
• Favorite quotes (Oxford University Press poll)

 Internet tidbits  

• People aged 55+ drive U.S. Internet growth

• Down memory lane: January

January quote: “Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures."

 - Susan Sontag (1933 - 2004)
| Quotes | More quotes | obituary