Open Directory Project DMOZ (from directory.mozilla.org, its original domain name), is a multilingual open content directory of World Wide Web links. The site and community who maintain it are also known as the Open Directory Project (ODP). It is owned by AOL but it is constructed and maintained by a community of volunteer editors. Project information[edit] The Gnuhoo directory went live on June 5, 1998. DMOZ size by date, 1998 to 2010. By the time Netscape assumed stewardship, DMOZ had about 100,000 URLs indexed with contributions from about 4500 editors. From January 2006, DMOZ published online reports to inform the public about the development of the project. System failure and editing outage, October to December 2006[edit] On October 20, 2006, DMOZ's main server suffered a catastrophic failure of the system[8] that prevented editors from working on the directory until December 18, 2006. Competing and spinoff projects[edit] Content[edit] DMOZ front page, January 2006 Maintenance[edit] RDF dumps[edit]
nu.nl | Het laatste nieuws het eerst op nu.nl War criminal calls greet Tony Blair in central London Wed Jul 25, 2012 5:56AM GMT We believe the man who took us into the Iraq war on a lie, killing up to a million Iraqis, hundreds of British soldiers and plunging the country back decades, should be facing a war crimes tribunal not a political comeback." Stop the War Coalition's national officer Chris Nineham Scores of British peace campaigners have held a protest rally in London against former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, calling him a “war criminal” for his bloody legacy of war in Iraq. Blair was greeted by chants of “Tony Blair, terrorist” as he appeared at a forum on Religion in Public Life alongside Archbishop of Canterbury Roman Williams at Methodist Central Hall of Westminster in central London. The Stop the War Coalition, which organized the protest rally, said they want Blair to face war crime charges at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Miliband has recently appointed ex-Labour leader Blair as a party advisor.
Britain's ex-army commandos train armed rebels in Syria: UK media Media reports expose the involvement of Britain’s Special Air Service in training armed rebels in Syria. (File photo) Britain’s former Special Air Service (SAS) commandos are reportedly training armed opposition groups fighting against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, reports say. The Daily Mail and Sunday Express have revealed that the mercenaries have set up training camps in Iraq and on the Syrian border for the armed rebels. British army sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, have said the militants are receiving instructions in military tactics, weapons handling and communications systems. Groups of 50 militants at a time are being trained by two Mideast-based private security firms which employ former SAS personnel. More than 300 rebel forces have completed the commando training program, and are said to account for a number of the opposition’s combatant units fighting Syrian security forces in Damascus.
UPDATE: University of Texas to Review Fracking Study A controversial study of hydraulic fracking will be reviewed by an independent panel of experts. The study, released in February, was criticized earlier this week when an advocacy group highlighted the financial ties of its lead author to an energy company. In a statement released yesterday, Steven Leslie, provost and executive vice president of the University of Texas, Austin, said he hoped to have a review of the study completed in a few weeks. "We believe that the research meets our standards, but it is important to let an outside group of experts take an independent look." Charles Groat, the associate director of the university's Energy Institute, coordinated the report while serving on the board of PXP, a company that uses fracking. In an e-mail to ScienceInsider, Groat said he thought his board membership wasn't relevant to the project and he didn't have an actual conflict of interest.
Nuclear expansion on track despite Fukushima: OECD report