Tommy Peters' Bicycles

En Kungens Man - Falconer (YouTube download) The screencast depicts doubleTwist downloading a YouTube. John Engelbert, Rainer Brockerhoff and several others are people to thank for offering this gem free of charge under a Creative Commons license. Like iTunes, the media manager presents music, movies and podcasts but unlike it, it presents photos as well. Main value it adds is managing devices other than iPhones and iPods , sharing content by bonjour and downloading / uploading of YouTubes within the wall. Although video compression is built into the device manager, perhaps the next version will see compression and ripper buttons added to the wall. Cheers, Tommy Screencast tools: doubleTwist, YouTube, ScreenFlow, Visual Hub

In Islamic discourses on the perceived impurity of dogs, one tradition suggests that black dogs are evil (*). This tradition, rooted in pre-Islamic mythology, did not impact Islamic law when jurists of the time considered it to be falsely attributed to Islam. Nevertheless, the nexus between the law and contemporary s ocial behavior continues to be an evolving bridge challenging the dynamic between a perceived religious dictum and God’s creation of nature. In Flo, a practicing Muslim, the bridge was never an issue because for her, it never existed. She had always sided with God’s creation rather than subscribe to a religious dictum. Starsky - her lovely companion of 11 years - was simply a testimony of God’s work. In Azura, a typical Muslim girl, the bridge reached its logical conclusion at a young age, when she had the good fortune to meet Starsky. The little fellow first terrified her. He stood there in front of the shrieking girl, gazing at her periphery, won...

A Buddhist parable went like this. Three blind men were asked to describe an elephant by touch. One held its leg and said it was a tree. Another held its trunk and said it was a giraffe. The third held its tail and said it was a snake. The men were not able to identify the mammal by holding it at separate places. Point is, Islam is being explained by people who are familiar with only parts of it. The recent furor in Selangor about the slaughtered cow is a case in point. Several years ago, the Mufti of Perak and a director of Takaful Nasional adopted what was thought as controversial, if not peculiar, positions and as a result of which, they were castigated and ridiculed by the mainstream. Cynics even hoped the ‘no open house’ proposal offered by the mufti and the ‘no deepavali greetings’ memorandum issued ­by the director were a brand of humor peculiar to only them. The mainstream applied pressure and in the context of multiculturalism and the prevailing political ...