OOF – Out of Food

Most geeks would rather tinker and investigate than be handed step-by-step instructions, and that’s true for more than just code and gadgetry.

Cooking for Geeks ($23) brings this philosophy into the kitchen, offering up instructions on how to set up the needed tools, information about the hows of cooking — including protein denaturation and caramelization — and insights from fellow geek cooks.

Personal details of 100m Facebook users have been collected and published on the net by a security consultant.

Ron Bowles used a piece of code to scan Facebook profiles, collecting data not hidden by the user’s privacy settings.

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Google officially denied the accuracy of its search trends that declared Pakistan as the top nation searching for illicit material on the internet, according to Dawn sources.

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Okay, maybe they won’t literally cause unexpected bowel movements, but “Facts that Will Greatly Disturb You” just didn’t have the same ring to it.

1,001 Facts that Will Scare the Sh*t Out of You ($10) is a 300+ page collection of random facts about bugs, disease, animals, and more, each one properly sourced — should you actually want to know more about it — and accompanied by a witty one-liner. Obviously a great bathroom reader, it works equally well for coffee tables, waiting rooms, and light mid-air entertainment.

Colombian Pop star Shakira was presented with the United Nation’s Social Justice for Peace award at a ceremony in Switzerland Wednesday for her organization, the Barefoot Foundation, which provides nutrition and education for as many as 6,000 children in Colombia.

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“The Women in the Middle East Workplace 2010″ survey is a measure of women’s perceptions, attitudes, experiences and satisfaction with various elements of their role in the Middle Eastern workplace, particularly regarding their treatment relative to that received by their male counterparts.

Data for the Women in the Middle East Workplace poll was collected online between the period of 26th April and 23rd May 2010 with a total of 2086 respondents, including locals, Arab expats, Western expats and Asian Expats residing in the UAE, KSA, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Algeria and Tunisia. The survey and other Middle East human resources research are available on http://www.bayt.com.

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A Toronto mother who says her marriage fell apart because her Rogers cellphone bill exposed her extramarital affair is suing Canada’s largest cellphone provider.

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Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi told worshippers in Tehran last Friday that they had to stick to strict codes of modesty to protect themselves.

“Many women who do not dress modestly lead young men astray and spread adultery in society which increases earthquakes,” he said.
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Even the Dalai Lama isn’t safe from hackers. Unknown cyber spies, most them operating from computer servers located in the People’s Republic of China, used cloud computing systems, social networking platforms and free web hosting services to steal sensitive and classified materials belonging to the United Nations, Indian National Security Council Secretariat, the Embassy of Pakistan in the United States, New York University and the Offices of the Dalai Lama, among others.

The details are reported in this 51-page report, “Shadows in the Cloud,” compiled after an eight-month investigation by the Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto and the Ottawa-based security analysis firm SecDev Group.

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A tribal language thought to have existed for 65,000 years has disapperead forever in India’s Andaman Islands, taken to the grave with its last speaker. According to the indigenous advocacy group Survival International, Boa Senior, the last member of the Bo tribe, died last week at the age of 85.

One of the 10 Great Andamanese tribes that are considered indigenous inhabitants of these islands 700 miles east of the Indian mainland, the Bo tribe spoke a language which is thought to date back to pre-Neolithic times and possibly to the first settlement of the region by modern humans.

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