World Peace Vase Project

"Treasure vases or terbum are containers filled with medicines, precious substances and mantra that have traditionally been used by Tibetans to protect important places against misfortune and to promote positive, healing energies. Similar sacred vases are used by some North American Indian tribes to heal the land and to restore peace. It was the vision of His Holiness Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, one of the greatest Tibetan teachers of this century, to launch a global scale project using treasure vases to restore peace, harmony and well-being to our planet, Earth. "

http://www.siddharthasintent.org/peace/index.html

The National Library & Archives of Bhutan

"Located in the cultural centre of Thimphu, the capital of the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan, we are a major scriptural repository and research facility dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the rich literary, cultural and religious heritage of our country. The scripture and document collection held in our library and archives is a national treasure and a fundamental source for Bhutanese history, religion, medicine, arts and culture. "

http://www.library.gov.bt/index.html

Lhundrup Topgye Ling Ngakpa Dratsang School

"Preserving Tibet's Oldest Spiritual Treasure
(educating children for the modern world)"

http://www.namchabarwa.org/school.htm

Creating a book template with Writer

"While Writer allows you to create an advanced book template that consists of a master document and a number of subdocuments, there are situations where using a simpler, one-file template makes more sense"

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/create_book_template_with_writer

Dear Lulu, The New Standards

"The first section of the book testing color portraits, shows the students, each dressed in a different color, posing outside in still life photographs featuring other random items in the same hue. The photos are then reproduced as CMYK, RGB, Grayscale and Half-tone so that you can see which color model is better — pretty amazing that RGB prints so well, and pretty amazing to think that sending an RGB to offset printing could cost a designer his or her job or thousands of dollars to reprint the washed out photo."

http://www.underconsideration.com/speakup/archives/005154.html

ID Cards

April 2009 : Darling fails to back ID cards

"Chancellor Alistair Darling failed to give unqualified backing to the government's £5.4bn National Identity Scheme yesterday after media reports that top cabinet ministers were planning to scrap the ID cards programme."

http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/news/2241502/darling-fails-back-id-cards


June 2009 : So what we do when ID Cards 1.0 finally dies?

"UK Identity Card 1.0 is in deep trouble. It's running late, and if the Conservative Party wins next year's election it'll be scrapped. Its original architect has changed his mind, and even some Cabinet members are starting to see it as a needless expense. But if we pull the plug, what then?"

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/19/identity_two_dot_oh/


July 2009: Government under fire over ID cards

"The government has been critisised over its decision to press ahead with the national ID card scheme following home secretary Alan Johnson's announcement that carrying an ID card will never be compulsory for British citizens."

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39669770,00.htm


September 2009 : ID card ad campaign to launch later this year

"The Home Office is to spend over £500,000 this year on a marketing campaign for the identity card which features cartoon fingerprints."

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39777012,00.htm?s_cid=260


See also : http://www.no2id.net/