Tyson's Spiritual Journey

Vince Thomas | Jul 13, 2010
"my whole life has been a waste – I've been a failure."

Extract: "The picture taken of "Iron" Mike Tyson in front of the holy Ka'aba reminds believers the reason that Muslims make the pilgrimages: it is a time for deep personal reflection and growth. After the life Tyson has led, is there anyone more deserving?" continue reading

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MIKE TYSON'S SPIRITUAL JOURNEY‎ Saudi Gazette - 4 Jul 2010, By Majed Al-Suqairi
"MADINA – Former US heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson, who is on a visit to the Kingdom to perform Umrah, Sunday prayed at the Quba’ and Qiblatain mosques..."

Mike Tyson, en peregrinación a Arabia Saudita Diario las Américas

Info courtesy: Mohammed Ibrahim

Terrorism is not a Muslim monopoly, Times of India

Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar, TNN, Jul 23, 2006,

"All Muslims may not be terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims." This comment , frequently heard after the Mumbai bomb blasts implies that terrorism is a Muslim specialty, if not a monopoly. The facts are very different. continue reading

Info courtesy: Mrs. Elizabeth Rahman, CEO of Metamorphosis Translation Services, and co-hosts the Annual Abraham Festival in Peterborough.

Google is neither God nor Satan - Thought for the day

Picture (Some Questions Can't Be Answered by Google) courtesy: TameBay : eBay news blog

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, Nicholas Carr (W. W. Norton & Company 2010; ISBN: 0393072223)

"Google is neither God nor Satan, and if there are shadows in the Googleplex they're no more than the delusions of grandeur. What's disturbing about the company's founders is not their boyish desire to create an amazingly cool machine that will be able to out think its creators, but the pinched conception of the human mind that gives rise to such a desire." (in Chapter Eight: The Church of Google, p. 176)

Review: The New York Times - Jonah Lehrer
While Carr tries to ground his argument in the details of modern neuroscience, his most powerful points have nothing do with our plastic cortex. Instead, The Shallows is most successful when Carr sticks to cultural criticism, as he documents the losses that accompany the arrival of new technologies.

Contents:
Prologue; The Watchdog and the Thief; One Hal and Me; Two The Vital Paths; a digression on what the brain thinks about when it thinks about itself; Three Tools of the Mind; Four The Deepening Page;a digression on lee de forest and his amazing audion; Five A Medium of the Most General Nature; Six The Very Image of a Book; Seven The Juggler's Brain; a degression on the buoyancy of IQ scores; Eight The Church of Google; Nine Search, Memeory; a digression on the writing of this book; Ten A Thing Like me; Epilogue Human Elements