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Grammy’s ‘sacred’
nomination
An album of chants
recorded by Buddhist monks in the Indian Himalayas has been nominated
for a Grammy award. "Sacred Tibetan Chant" by the monks of
Sherabling Monastery was listed as one of six nominees in the
traditional world music album category for the 46th annual Grammy
Awards, which will be handed out on February 8 in Los Angeles. "The
audio CD contains sacred Tibetan chants, meditation prayers and other
rituals observed at the beginning and end of the day at the Sherabling
Monastery," said a top aide of the monastery’s head monk, Tai
Situ Rinpoche. Tai Situ was not available for comments. His aide said
the recording of the album was done at the monastery with the help a
Tibetan Buddhist centre in New Zealand.
Thailand offended
The Thai government is
seeking legal action against a British Webmaster for posting a Thai
national flag on her pornography site, Xinhua reports, quoting the
Bangkok Post. The use of the flag on the Website was an insult and
tarnished the country’s image, Yongyuth Sarasombat, permanent
secretary in the Thai Prime Minister’s Office, said. The Webmaster’s
action violated the National Flag Act and the Criminal Act, he said,
adding the Website described Bangkok as a City of Sex. The Webmaster
would face up to one year’s imprisonment and a fine of $ 47.62 under
the National Flag Law and three years in prison and a fine of $ 95.24
under the Criminal Law, he said. Legal experts said the British
government was not expected to extradite the Webmaster on such minor
charges, while some activists believed the government should do
something else to keep Bangkok’s reputation clean.
Toshiba’s erasable
ink
It may not be the
paperless office many once thought possible, but it may be the next best
thing. With Toshiba Corp’s new erasable ink, the green at heart can
have their paper without the guilt. The company’s new e-Blue erasing
machine uses heat treatment to remove words and images printed with
erasable toner on 400-500 A4 sized pages at a time. The process takes
three hours, and will allow companies to reuse paper and cut office
waste. "Despite new tools like e-mail and the development of all
sorts of wireless technologies, people still just like to have things in
paper," Toshiba spokesman Junichi Nagaki said. Toshiba has launched
the toner and erasing machine, which will retail for around 3,00,000 yen
($2,744) in Japan.
Google’s no to
drugs
Online search engine
Google Inc. has stopped accepting advertisements from unlicensed
pharmacies, joining other popular Websites that have bowed to pressure
to curb the illegal distribution of prescription drugs. Google’s
decision follows a similar move last month by a Yahoo! Inc. subsidiary,
Overture Services, that distributes ads to the Websites operated by its
parent company and Microsoft’s MSN. America Online began restricting
ad sales to unlicensed pharmacies two years ago. Google’s ad ban doesn’t
effect the noncommercial results that its search engine displays after
scientific algorithms pour through 3.3 billion Web pages stored in its
database.
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