What Makes People Tick?

Goodreads reviewer Manny wrote a very hilarious and entertaining review (well... not quite a review...) of the Qur'an / Koran on Goodreads. I laughed and chuckled and laughed and chuckled some more. Check out this very entertaining entry about famous authors, Anonymous and the battle of the Goodreads librarians: Manny's Reviews > The Quran  

What Makes People Tick is not just a blog anymore! Since the 8th of April 2015 we're also on Twitter. Yay! And we've been on Google Plus for a while now, too! Want to find us online? Follow the links... What Makes People Tick Blog on Twitter Hello world! http://t.co/FOTn47LA86 Finally on Twitter! Excited to be here; looking forward to reading, learning, sharing and Tweeting. — WMPT Blog (@wmptblog) April 8, 2015 What Makes People Tick Blog on Google Plus

From an idea to a dream to a collection of topics to a set of stories to an actual blog to a blog with a Google Plus page - What Makes People Tick has come a long way. This year, we're hoping to go even further. We're coming to Twitter ! Or rather: We've arrived and we hope you'll join us for the party! Hello world! http://t.co/FOTn47LA86 Finally on Twitter! Excited to be here; looking forward to reading, learning, sharing and Tweeting. — WMPT Blog (@wmptblog) April 8, 2015

It is time for humans the world over to unite. It is time for us to come together through the Internet, through Social Media and through Technology. It is time for us to come together and collectively say NO. It is time for us to come together and collectively say NO to war, NO to corruption, NO to consumerism, NO to living in a plastic-fantastic society, NO to intolerance and the spreading of misinformation, NO to governments not delivering on their promises, NO to religious intolerance, NO to discrimination, NO to rape, NO to torture, NO to inequality, NO to hunger, NO to living a life dedicated to the pursuit of material things and NO to one more person having to live in poverty or suffer for one more day. It is time to come together, to collectively stand up for what matters and to tell those who care more for money and power than people and the planet that they need to WAKE UP before it is too late. The internet, social media and instant global communication as we know the...

Vox.com presents an interesting article with 40 maps that show the start and spread of the internet. It looks like it all started in America, spreading from there to Europe and beyond. Reading this article made me wonder - didn't Dan Brown once write that the internet started at CERN? (Or some part of the technology that makes the internet possible anyway... Heck, it was a long, long time ago that I read his books...) "The internet increasingly pervades our lives, delivering information to us no matter where we are. It takes a complex system of cables, servers, towers, and other infrastructure, developed over decades, to allow us to stay in touch with our friends and family so effortlessly. Here are 40 maps that will help you better understand the internet — where it came from, how it works, and how it's used by people around the world." Source:  40 maps that explain the internet , Vox.com Maps 14 and 15 shows domain names around the world. The first map shows E...

I am getting SO sick and tired of simple webpages taking minutes to load because there are so many advertisements and moving images on the page. Today, it was CNN's website. All I'm trying to do is to read TEXT, just plain text. What happens?  First, a photo loads. Why? I'm not here to view the photo, I'm here to read the text.  Then the top bar, something about an edition I've chosen? Noooo... I didn't choose anything. Software did, by reading my IP address to determine where I'm from. Why? Is the article I'm trying to read different depending on the version? Is the American version different from the international version for instance?  Next are links to other articles. Again - not here to read those other articles, just here to read the article that the search engine just found for me... Which I'm still waiting for... Underneath the photo, the first lines of text appear. Scrolling is still impossible. Reading the rest of the art...