Three years before his new project, Dr. Adelegan's project "Cows to Kilowatts" discovered a new way of supplying cooking gas using waste products from slaughterhouses. This time he's back with "Power to the Poor: Off-Grid Lighting."

In his native country,  the Cassava plant is a staple food of Nigeria and the source of a major public health problem. Cassava refining causes water pollution and emits noxious greenhouse gases.

The officials have claimed that some soldiers have unintentionally uploaded pictures of themselves with classified equipment that reveals sensitive information. Seems like a valid point to me. Although, soldiers only have so much entertainment during their down time, and to put more restrictions on them is probably very irritating. Keeping classified information classified, is, however, more important I suppose, right? Thumbs-up, officials, thumbs-up.

The preacher, Sheikh Ali al-Maliki, considers Facebook “a door to lust,” and warned “the accession of women to it.” Many Saudi women are joining the popular social-networking site, and al-Maliki goes on to report that “Young women and men are spending more on their mobile phones and Internet than they are on food.” (I’m thinking this has more to do with costs, but hey, I get his point.)

He stands by his belief that if the web site is not blocked from his country, the country will suffer the consequences of men and women straying from the country’s beliefs, morals, and culture. On the other side of the argument? Hidaya Darwich. Darwich told Al-Aribya.net, “This does not mean that young women who are using the Internet should be perceived as lesser than others. Not all women are alike and not all of them are perverted.”

Thank you, Ms. Darwich! I mean really, when are all of the culturally ignorant people in this world going to realize that although their beliefs and customs have been accepted by their followers for so long, it’s time for a change.

With constant changes in technology and media, how are people to keep up while still trying to follow the same rules? It doesn’t make much sense to me, and I don’t see progress without change. Why is it alright for people to think it’s ok to kill someone over talking to someone else?  And why aren't people taking  a step back and looking at the issue that is really at hand -  the beliefs in contrast to the  real  society of today. 

Scratch that, I know why, but it should still be taken under consideration.

Sniffu.com uses GPS to track friends on mobile phones and can be used on wireless devices with web browsing or text messaging capabilities, the blog reported. Sound a little dangerous? Well, you must accept or invite someone to be part of your “friends list” in order for them to see you or you to see them, and within the application you can view and manage who can locate you.

Will such a thing really take off here in the United States? Well, Loopt mobile has already landed a deal with Verizon Wireless for a similar product, but Loopt doesn’t offer the Facebook application that sniff does. The Facebook application easily allows  users to transfer over their friends without having to manually add them one by one. The downside? It does cost you. I mean, c’mon, standard text messaging rates will always apply.

For each child's account, a parent can set a renewable “allowance” of x amount of dollars for their child to purchase audible books at leisure. The downloaded books can be uploaded to Apple’s iPod, numerous other audio players, and mobile devices. Children can log in to the site with their own username and easily search for books they would like to purchase. The site also allows parents to write and review audio book recommendations and offers audio book advice.

That runs in sharp contrast to the site's open intentions. According to WikimediaFoundation.org, “The Wikimedia Foundation is a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development, and distribution of free, multilingual content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge."

Wikimedia Foundation runs Wikipedia, one of the largest user-edited projects in the world and one of the 10 most visited web sites on the planet. 

Wikipedia.org's user-generated community of information is great--as long as you're not in China. Due to strict censorship laws, Wikipedia has been banned. But there are a few ways to get around these Internet filter-like blocks. Anonymouse is one way China users can view Wikipedia articles, but they can not edit them. Same thing with Tor. Unless you’re are an Internet genius located in China, you’re basically stuck if you have something to add. Unfair? Completely. But with no control over their strict censorship laws, is there anything the people of China can really do?

There are over 1.3 billion people located in China, and I doubt they’re all entirely interested enough in some of the meaningless information you can find on Wikipedia, but some of the information is just entirely knowledgeable, and call me American, but I think they deserve the right to know these things. No one should be able to dangle knowledge above someone’s head and withhold it from them.

Virtual space “Naughty Auties” allows those with autism to get an avatar and communicate. This offers a solution to people with autism, who can not read other people’s facial expressions and body language, which makes daily communication with others almost impossible. Savill wanted a place where sufferers, relatives, and friends of sufferers could come to relax and have some fun.

When Savill’s family first got the Internet, he quickly learned that  people used symbols in chatrooms as a way to express themselves. Through smiley and angry faces, Savill’s brain was subconsciously able to learn about communication. Savill believes that if he had had Second Life then, instead of chatrooms, the ability to pick up on communication skills would have been endless. Furthermore, he says that bringing more autistic people to Second Life will help them to build communication skills. "You're on your own computer, in your own room, your own space," Savill said in the report. "So you're not going out into the real world meeting people, you're going meeting people online and in your own home, so you're perfectly relaxed. It's just a fantastic tool to use to bring people together."

Many believe that this could eventually be helpful in aiding autism sufferers, but scientists at Yale say more information is needed to truly assess the value. Dr. Fred Volkmar, a professor in Yale’s University Child Study Center said in the report. "Although not much research is yet available, there is clearly considerable potential in use of new technologies for fostering social skills.” Another researcher, Simon Bignell of the University of Derby, England, told the reporter that "For people with autism, we've found it's a very nice way of setting up situations they might come across in their everyday lives. For people who have social, emotional, communicational problems ... we can get them familiar with an environment before they actually try it out in real life.”

Before this time, Second Life was just a virtual reality site, pretty much like an online version of The Sims, give or take. Could Second Life actually end up being an aid to autism? It sure does look like it.

There's a catch: Cubans will only be able to get a cell phone through state telecom ETECSA, and only in the form of prepaid contracts that must be paid for in foreign currency. The plus side: these phones will be able to make and receive international calls.

More information from ETECSA about the matter is very light, but in the next few days Cubans should be able to find out how to switch over their contracts or sign up for new ones. Viva la cubanos! Finally, these people will know what it’s like to have the convenience of a phone on them at all times. They’ll also get to know another first: that pain of what it’s like to be reached at all times.

"Emo kids" are those kids who listen to indie/rock/screamo music (which mostly consists of emotional-type lyrics), dress in tight clothes, straight-iron their hair (yes, the boys too!), and wear heavy makeup (yes, the boys too!). They often have "the angles" (C'mon, seriously? You didn't see the famous YouTube video about Yeta/Yeti?) and are so-called MySpace "whores." I really shouldn't have to school you on this, but a MySpace "whore" is someone who adds a ton of people they don't know just to gain popularity on the site. They basically find a few popular people manually by searching through friends of friends and keep adding until they are able to create a "chain bulletin post" asking others to re-post the bulletins with "add me" links and pictures in them. They would rather sit and talk out an argument rather than take part in a fist fight. Although they might seem angry, they’re called “emo” for a reason.