Google search: "popularisation of science":

I was looking for background information about this book:
"Title: Popularisation of Science and Technology Education: Some Case Studies
from Africa Editors"

But the Google search results are interesting by themselves, have a look at the list from the link above.

46664.COM - Give 1 minute of your life to the fight against AIDS. All it takes is listening for 1 minute. The Nelson Mandela Foundation.

"The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) offers state-of-the-art knowledge services that engage our global network of development practitioners to provide timely and high-quality advice, expertise and know-how to policy makers and other partners in the countries where we operate - helping them pursue the best possible development solutions.

Knowledge services are provided principally through two mechanisms. Thematically defined "knowledge networks" function as global communities having a shared interest and professional focus. Geographically organized Sub-Regional Resource Facilities (SURFs) work for specific clusters of country offices, and have advisory and research capacity to address substantive issues in greater depth.

There are currently more than 4,000 participants in this initiative - over half of UNDP's entire staff from every part and all levels of the worldwide organization, as well as more than 600 members from the United Nations system and other external partners. New members are joining every week. Included in this number are 160 full-time UNDP policy specialists, 80 of whom are located in the SURFs. Other than the full-time specialists, members of the knowledge networks participate on a voluntary basis.

The major networks currently number twelve: Democratic Governance; Poverty Reduction; Crisis Prevention and Recovery; Energy and Environment; ICT for Development; HIV/AIDS; Evaluation; Gender Equality; Human Development Reports; Management Practice; Millennium Development Goals; and, Small Enterprise and Microfinance. The networks are dynamic and evolve in response to community interests, resulting in the creation of both new networks and sub-networks with more targeted themes or a regional focus.

The nine SURF country clusters are: Arab States; Caribbean; Central & Eastern Africa; Europe/CIS; Latin America; Pacific, North & South East Asia; Southern Africa; West & South Asia; and, Western Africa."

http://www.undp.org/knowledge/index.htm

Khalil Gibran
"Gibran on Love...

Then said Almitra, "Speak to us of Love."

And he raised his head and looked upon the people, and there fell a stillness upon them. And with a great voice he said:
When love beckons to you follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you yield to him,
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
And when he speaks to you believe in him,
Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.
For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.
Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun,
So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.
Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself.
He threshes you to make you naked.
He sifts you to free you from your husks.
He grinds you to whiteness.
He kneads you until you are pliant;
And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast.
All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart.
But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure,
Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor,
Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.
When you love you should not say, "God is in my heart," but rather, I am in the heart of God."
And think not you can direct the course of love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself.
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:
To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;
To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy;
To return home at eventide with gratitude;
And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips"

Wired News: Brazil Gives Nod to Open Source: "BRASILIA, Brazil -- If he is to make good on his promise to improve life for the tens of millions of Brazilians who live in dire poverty, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva knows that one key challenge is to bridge a massive technology gap. And if that means shunning Microsoft software in South America's largest country, then so be it.
Silva's top technology officer wants to transform the land of samba and Carnival into a tech-savvy nation where everyone from schoolchildren to government bureaucrats uses open-source software instead of costly Windows products. "

Dumb Blogs Have More Fun - Mom finds out about blog: "Hi Mom,
Just wanted to drop you a note to say that the guy I brought home with me last week wasn't my roommate but my boyfriend who I use to do drugs with and have casual sex. Also, your cooking sucks.
This article is hillarious:"

2003 Global Influentials