Video sharing site YouTube has taken online viewing to the masses

The online video boom is starting to eat into TV viewing time, an ICM survey of 2,070 people for the BBC suggests.

Some 43% of Britons who watch video from the internet or on a mobile device at least once a week said they watched less normal TV as a result.

That's because the other 57% do all their online video watching from work!!

I'm a firm supporter of the Boycott Black Friday movement....you'll not find me anywhere near a store tomorrow. But rather than hash out the merits of shopping for gifts, I'd rather spend today giving you a money-saving tip, should you be going out tomorrow (or anytime soon) shopping for a digital camera......

http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/23/pogues-perspective-megapixel-numbers-dont-matter/

The back of then-teenage Sumiteru Taniguchi      

was horribly burned after the atomic bombing                 

of Nagasaki.

Sumiteru Taniguchi at Nagasaki Peace                                                                       

When Sumiteru Taniguchi hands you his business card, you find yourself staring at a teenage boy's naked back. The boy lies face down. The back is horribly burned, the red skin raw and festering.

Taniguchi, 77, is chairman of the Nagasaki Council of the A-Bomb Sufferers. The boy is himself. The photo was taken by U.S. army personnel six months after the Nagasaki bombing, and under it is printed, "I want you to understand, if only a little, the horror of nuclear weapons."

"I have no desire to make a spectacle of myself," he tells them. "But with nuclear weapons, to forget is to condone. Don't turn your eyes away."

Taniguchi hopes to see the day when nuclear weapons are no more. To my ears, the powerful words spoken by this slender figure of a man sound a warning: "Don't forget Hiroshima and Nagasaki."

Taken from the following website:

 http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/features/news/20061103p2g00m0fe026000c.html

Power

She always called you ‘Magic’

for the power she did not see.

You thought the power would help you grow;

you thought it would set you free.

            It was the power that made you cross that bridge,

            but you used it and did not fall.

            You saw the gift the power could give,

            though it wasn’t your freedom at all.

It was a gift of knowing –

a way to see –

the knowledge that you’d never know

a last reality.

            The world is full of secrets –

            Mysteries fill the air.

            It makes no difference what you do;

            your death is always there.

The results don’t really matter;

you act as you know you must.

Through everything you do or say,

your death is all you can trust.

            Though, in a way, the power sets you free.

            For it’s the power that gives you the sight

            to see the varied paths of life,

            and pick the one that’s right.

And many will call you ‘Magic’,

for the power they cannot see.

You know the power can help you grow,

for it’s the power that lets you see.

The instant I have processed the sound

my heart disappears in a hole

cold and empty like outer space

and I know this is bad

very

very

bad

The smoke alarm screams at 3 am

doing it’s designed duty except

now it cries for my son

dead not 20 feet away

very

very

bad

“Multiple calls, flames showing”

2 am Christmas Day

this alarm has no battery, no life

and neither do Dad and 3 children

very

very

bad

“A plane has flown into the World Trade Center”

rush to a TV, CNN live, a picture of smoke and flame

the firefighter in me thinks

they will lose that building, that sudden hell

very

very

bad

the temple loudspeaker summons the neighborhood

a new word I can’t translate from Thai: tsunami

but the screams, the sobs, the horror on the faces

tells me family, tells me friends, are dead

very

very

bad

the cold space is bigger now

and never quite goes away

icy fingers in my heart, a vacuum in my spirit

I will survive