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2013-05-23 10:39:23 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

This week's suggested topic on #Insaka "lobola"
women are very expensive in africa, over here they are not. this is a joke we might try correct http://zambia.mpelembe.net/insaka

2013-05-23 10:01:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

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2013-05-23 09:59:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

+Arne Roomann-Kurrik hooked up our DSLR again to take a timelapse of Alamo Square during Bay 2 Breakers 2013:
Bay to Breakers 2013 - Alamo Square

My fave are the salmon in the park at 6am :) 

2013-05-22 23:30:33 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Google 'pone sus ojos' en Teotihuacan

El gigante de Internet y el INAH presentaron el nuevo equipo Trekker con el que se capturaron las imágenes de las pirámides, mismas que formarán parte de Street View de Google Maps. Foto: Héctor Téllez

Aquí los detalles: http://mile.io/1a88ZBz

2013-05-22 15:37:38 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

get up and dance!

2013-05-22 15:22:04 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

get up and dance!

2013-05-21 21:15:38 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

After completing the feat, she explained to reporters how she initially encountered objections from her family.

2013-05-21 20:39:39 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

#gdg #developerday #gdgghana

2013-05-21 20:38:32 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

#awesome  
EDIT: Just found the full story here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/12/anthony-cymerys-haircuts-homeless_n_3264116.html

2013-05-21 20:36:38 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Spot  Mpelembe Network rank position. No, It's not a Google clone! http://goo.gl/ZAoDz

2013-05-21 19:52:00 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Mpelembe Network is created by "Life long links". We have nothing to worry about here

2013-05-21 19:34:57 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

The new device interacts with a user's television, responds to voice and gesture commands, and includes Skype video calling.

2013-05-21 17:44:17 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

English Premier League club Manchester City, owned by Sheikh Mansour of Abu Dhabi, will be the majority partner in New York City Football Club with the Yankees, the biggest name in baseball, an "active member of the ownership group".

2013-05-21 17:03:43 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Nick Buckles six years of early success were quickly forgotten (pun)

2013-05-21 16:52:42 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

 "Don't blame us" - that was the message from Ireland as the global tax avoidance row engulfed its highest profile company.
Apple has reportedly kept billions of dollars in profits in Irish subsidiaries in order to pay little or no taxes to any government.

2013-05-21 16:45:02 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

According to a newspaper report, two sisters intend to fight an April 2004Johannesburg High Court order which gave Mandela the right to instruct Ismail Ayob, his then lawyer, to stop managing his financial, personal and legal affairs.
The court order barred Ayob from selling any of Mandela's artworks.

2013-05-21 15:34:34 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

E-Masomo is Kenya's first education resource website made for high schoolstudents by high school students. Teenagers, Brian Kirotich and Martin Sieledesigned the platform, which provides students with learning materials; from past examination papers and interactive videos, to a review of the entire curriculum.

2013-05-21 13:19:47 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

I love this animation!

2013-05-21 13:19:16 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

The new Google Maps look and feel is now available for the JavaScript and Static Maps APIs.  In this Shortcuts episode, +Josh Livni gives an overview of the visual refresh, and shows how to enable it in your own maps.

2013-05-21 13:18:13 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Music Hack Day on the @midem blog by @lucyeblair‘Why developers are the new rockstars: Why labels should care’ http://blog.midem.com/2013/05/lucy-blair-developers-are-the-new-rockstars-why-labels-should-care …

2013-05-21 11:00:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

"Ah, summertime is in the air, and so are lofty tech firm valuations. We've had a couple nice U.S. IPOs..."
...and now Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has splashed out $1.1 billion dollars for edgy blogging network Tumblr.
But the internet gravy train doesn't stop in the U.S.
Chinese tech firms are on the prowl, as well.

2013-05-21 10:43:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

President Obama has declared a major disaster in Oklahoma after a deadly tornado hit a suburb of Oklahoma City Monday afternoon.

2013-05-21 10:38:56 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

The difference in speed between winds in the upper atmosphere and those on the surface causes an atmospheric imbalance forming horizontal spinning columns of air.

2013-05-20 17:14:57 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

The 787 was grounded worldwide in mid-January after two batteries overheated. Regulators approved a redesigned battery system in April.

2013-05-20 17:10:58 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Well known musicians from across West Africa shared the spotlight with their counterparts from Europe and the U.S. for some crowd pleasing performances.

2013-05-20 16:50:50 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

It's been a while since I last I heard this tune

2013-05-20 16:45:32 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Married father of two Major Tim Peake was chosen from more than 8,000 applicants to become one of six astronauts who will visit the International Space Station in 2015.

2013-05-20 16:23:19 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

The stadium gets lots of use for sports and other events and in the past the pitch has been widely criticised and regularly changed; it is currently a mix of synthetic material and real grass.

2013-05-20 16:17:01 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

The sprinter's agent had previously said August's world championships in Moscowwere "on the radar" after Pistorius' bail conditions were relaxed on March 28 and the 26-year-old was granted permission to travel abroad.

2013-05-20 15:42:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Knowledge of the fungal networks could allow farmers to take advantage of plants natural defenses instead of relying solely pesticides.

2013-05-20 15:27:04 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Police initially described the incident as a robbery but later said the assailant shot his victims, in a branch of Bank Hapoalim in the southern city of Beersheba, without demanding any money, and apparently knew them. Three of the dead were reported to have been bank employees.

2013-05-20 14:19:54 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

THE DESIGN THAT CONQUERED GOOGLE

2013-05-20 14:14:19 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Britain is home to much of today's watercress production. The watercress sandwich became a British institution between the world wars, when the population depended on local products.
In subsequent years watercress fell out favour with consumers, but has seen a resurgence in popularity thanks to its reputation as a 'superfood'

2013-05-20 14:07:22 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Although it has not been confirmed as the "tallest cake" in Africa by record bodies like the Guinness book, the nine-tier cake with a 80 by 80 inch base and embellished with sugarcrafted decorations is being touted as a record for Nigeria, at least.

2013-05-20 14:00:46 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Police, who have made no arrests, say they don't know what caused the rioting, but local media reports said it could be connected to an incident last week in which police shot a machete-wielding man in the suburb.

2013-05-20 13:28:59 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Five people are killed in a bank robbery in Israel, including one of the robbers, who turned the gun on himself.

2013-05-20 12:53:48 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

In the simulation Imamura plays the part of a robber breaking into a building. As he levers open the door however, he unwittingly trips a laser detector, which sends a signal to the drone parked nearby. Within seconds, the drone launches and heads to the scene of the break-in where it hovers while waiting for the the robber to emerge from the building. The copter detects the robbers' escape with onboard motion sensors, which trigger a small surveillance camera to zoom in and follow the thief while sending a video signal back to Secom in real time.

2013-05-20 12:48:53 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

The researchers are training the bees to help find landmines. The bees are trained by adding particles of TNT to sugar solution which leads the bees to identify the smell of explosives with the scent of food.

2013-05-20 12:38:35 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Big night in Vegas for Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift at the Billboard Music Awards

2013-05-20 12:32:23 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

His gloves-off political satire is refreshing in a country where that's a rarity.

Especially when it's directed against their own leaders.

2013-05-20 12:15:13 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

By 9:30 p.m. Central Standard Time (0200GMT), more than two dozen tornadoes had been spotted in parts of Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas and Illinois, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and local news reports. Hail stones, some as large as baseballs, were reported fromGeorgia to Minnesota, the NOAA said.

2013-05-20 12:02:31 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

It's not just sport that idolises Ferguson's approach - the Harvard Business School used him as a recent case study.

2013-05-20 11:51:53 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Abbas is wanted in Australia on a string of charges that include arranging a boat to carry asylum seekers in 2011 which sank, killing 200 people on board.

2013-05-20 11:46:18 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Over the course of five days, a control group received a sham stimulation while learning new math, while an experimental group received electrical stimulation. The result was the participants being stimulated did faster calculations than the control group.

2013-05-20 11:37:32 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Unofficial final results showed on Monday (May 20) that the cricket hero Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf party won a re-vote in an upmarket constituency of Karachi the previous day.

The win came a day after gunmen killed a party leader on Saturday (May 18), setting the stage for protests and counter-protests.

2013-05-19 23:23:52 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Here's what's wrong with his brain: On the left side, there's nothing right, and on the right side there's nothing left.

2013-05-19 22:44:25 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Indian movie actors and a new wave of directors are on a mission at this year's festival -- to show that their industry is more than just Bollywood.

2013-05-19 22:34:30 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Earlier today on #Insaka

2013-05-19 22:27:52 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

The National Weather Service placed more than a dozen counties in Kansas,Nebraska and Oklahoma under a tornado watch.
The agency said in a bulletin that mobile homes, businesses and vehicles in the area could face complete destruction.

2013-05-19 21:28:41 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

"I hold the British government responsible for this murder. Would the British government allow any one to give an address like this and incite violence against people in the United Kingdom?" - Imran Khan