Google is building a "home-entertainment system that streams music wirelessly throughout the home and would be marketed under the company's own brand," according to a report today in the Wall Street Journal. While the move has not been confirmed by Google, it would build upon the Google Music streaming service and music store. It would also likely integrate with Android—the Journal describes it in one paragraph as the "Google Android entertainment system," and says it is being developed by Google's Android unit for unveiling later this year. The system "would let people download digital…
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Google building "home entertainment system" for wireless music streaming
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The Schizophrenic Nature of Windows 8
PCMag.com: the Official John C. Dvorak RSS Feed8 Feb 2012 | 12:43 pmSomeone admit the OS into an insane asylum because it's crazy. -
Hangout With the Scientists Looking for the God Particle
ReadWriteWeb9 Feb 2012 | 11:57 amWant to hang out with the people who run the CMS? No, not the content management system. The Compact Muon Solenoid. It's one of the two big detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the largest and highest-energy particle accelerator in the world. CERN physicist Dr. Albert De Roeck is hosting a Google+ Hangout tomorrow from inside the cavern where the experiment takes place, about 100 meters underneath Cessy, France. He'll explain the CMS experiment and take questions about the crazy frontiers of particle physics. Sponsor The CMS is one of the two general-purpose LHC experiments searching… -
Watch Every Apple Design Ever in a 30-Second Video [Video]
Gizmodo9 Feb 2012 | 12:50 pmRob Beschizza over at BoingBoing put together this awesome video that runs through more or less every iteration of every design Apple's ever done. It's mesmerizing how even the retro Apple stuff is so obviously ancient but still abides by the same tenets of design as today's stuff. More » -
What You Should Do with Your Extra Money [Video]
Lifehacker9 Feb 2012 | 1:00 pmRamit Sethi is a New York Times best-selling author and creator of one of our favorite personal finance sites, I Will Teach You to Be Rich. In his weekly video Q&A for Lifehacker, Ramit answers common questions about personal finance, careers, and more. This week: What should you do with your extra money? More »
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Ars Technica
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Google building "home entertainment system" for wireless music streaming
9 Feb 2012 | 1:35 pmGoogle is building a "home-entertainment system that streams music wirelessly throughout the home and would be marketed under the company's own brand," according to a report today in the Wall Street Journal. While the move has not been confirmed by Google, it would build upon the Google Music streaming service and music store. It would also likely integrate with Android—the Journal describes it in one paragraph as the "Google Android entertainment system," and says it is being developed by Google's Android unit for unveiling later this year. The system "would let people download digital… -
Windows 8 on ARM: the desktop is there, so's Office, but not much more
9 Feb 2012 | 1:25 pmEnding months of speculation on the matter, Microsoft has revealed that Windows 8 will indeed contain a desktop—and that desktop versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote will all be pre-installed. Microsoft insists that the desktop holds real value, and that it makes Windows less valuable to users if it was missing (a view we're sympathetic to). To that end, Windows 8 on ARM ("WOA") will have a desktop, with a taskbar, that includes Explorer, most of the current desktop utilities that ship with Windows (though not all, and Microsoft hasn't said what won't be included), and… -
Windows 8 on ARM: building a common Windows platform
9 Feb 2012 | 12:34 pmMicrosoft has started to talk in detail about Windows on ARM: what it will do, what it won't do, and how it has been put together in its latest post on its Building Windows 8 blog. The focus of the lengthy post is the work Microsoft has done to bring Windows to ARM: building a common ARM platform that works the same way, whether using a processor from NVIDIA, Texas Instruments, or Qualcomm. This was a substantial undertaking: unlike desktop PCs, ARM systems are all wildly different. Windows on ARM, or "WOA" as Microsoft is calling it, is substantially identical to Windows on x86/x64. The… -
Arcade game luminaries see parallels in today's social, mobile games
9 Feb 2012 | 12:24 pmIf there's anyone who can make sense of the recent, meteoric rise of mobile and social games, it's probably the people behind the golden age of arcade gaming in the early '80s. Just such a group drew a lot of parallels between the two gaming eras at a DICE session today, while also offering some cautionary warnings about following in the arcade's footsteps. Read the comments on this post -
Linking correlation to causation with power laws and scale free systems
9 Feb 2012 | 11:30 amAn essential part of science involves finding correlations between two sets of measurements and seeking explanations for those correlations. However, relationships can be suggested by data even when they don't actually exist, and correlations may occur due to random fluctuations rather than a deep underlying principle (as the infamous "correlation does not equal causation" cliché suggests). These errors are easy to make, and the scientific literature is full of them. So how can researchers establish if a correlation is both real and meaningful? In a Perspective in the February 10 issue of…
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The Schizophrenic Nature of Windows 8
8 Feb 2012 | 12:43 pmSomeone admit the OS into an insane asylum because it's crazy. -
A Crusade Against Roaming Charges
7 Feb 2012 | 1:02 pmMany Americans experience bill shock after being brutally charged by mobile phone providers with ridiculous roaming fees. -
Censoring the Web Every Which Way
2 Feb 2012 | 2:46 pmThe future of the Internet seems bleak, but Americans are too busy playing Angry Birds to notice. -
Will Apple Kill the Macintosh?
31 Jan 2012 | 1:48 pmRumors are circulating that Apple might kill the Macintosh, and here's why and how it might do it. -
Twitter Enacts Censorship Regime
27 Jan 2012 | 3:02 pmThe social networking site has developed a mechanism to withhold tweets in certain countries. Big whoop.
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ReadWriteWeb
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Hangout With the Scientists Looking for the God Particle
9 Feb 2012 | 11:57 amWant to hang out with the people who run the CMS? No, not the content management system. The Compact Muon Solenoid. It's one of the two big detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the largest and highest-energy particle accelerator in the world. CERN physicist Dr. Albert De Roeck is hosting a Google+ Hangout tomorrow from inside the cavern where the experiment takes place, about 100 meters underneath Cessy, France. He'll explain the CMS experiment and take questions about the crazy frontiers of particle physics. Sponsor The CMS is one of the two general-purpose LHC experiments searching… -
Fabled Google Drive Won't Be Another Dropbox
9 Feb 2012 | 11:00 amThe Wall Street Journal has revived rumors about Google launching a cloud storage service called Drive. The comparison everybody wants to make is to Dropbox. The thinking is that Google will challenge everyone's favorite start-up by releasing a native desktop and mobile Drive app with the same syncing features Dropbox users know and love. Google Drive rumors have been around for many years, and they've always conformed to the understanding of "The Cloud" that has prevailed at the time. If it's not like Apple's iCloud, which is integrated into Apple's devices, then it must be like Dropbox,… -
[STUDY] 61% of Social Media Users Feel So Close To You
9 Feb 2012 | 10:30 amSometimes little things like a sweet comment on Facebook or a Twitter friend calling your tweet a "favorite" can really make a social networker bee's day. A new study from Pew finds that for the most part, adults are kind to each other on social media sites. In fact, 85% of adults say that most of the people they come across on social media are rather kind; only 5% say that people are "mostly unkind," which would imply rude or mean. An additional 5% say that it's all situational. On the whole, adults have positive experiences on social networking sites. A total 68% of SNS users had an… -
[Infographic] Mapping the Tools in the Mobile Development Ecosystem
9 Feb 2012 | 10:00 amThe mobile development ecosystem is a large, complicated space. There are innovative startups making tools for native and mobile Web apps along with large enterprise-grade companies that offer solutions from cloud support to frameworks and developer environments. For a mobile developer, it can be confusing to know where to turn and what to use to make the best app possible. Mobile "backend-as-a-service" startup Kinvey created a map for ReadWriteMobile to help developers understand the ecosystem. Kinvey brackets the mobile ecosystem between two primary pillars: the service providers and the… -
Harry Reid Wants a Bigger, Badder Version of SOPA/PIPA
9 Feb 2012 | 9:30 amSenate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., still licking wounds from last week's defeat of the Protect IP Act and its House counterpart the Stop Online Piracy Act, is reportedly working on an even more sinister, Internet-regulating bill. Few details have been publicly disclosed about the latest push by legislative Democrats to expand executive-branch authority over the Internet, but the Daily Caller has pieced together publicly-available clues suggesting that Reid's newest bill is even broader than President Barack Obama's cybersecurity proposal. Sponsor Released last May, Obama's proposal…
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Gizmodo
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Watch Every Apple Design Ever in a 30-Second Video [Video]
9 Feb 2012 | 12:50 pmRob Beschizza over at BoingBoing put together this awesome video that runs through more or less every iteration of every design Apple's ever done. It's mesmerizing how even the retro Apple stuff is so obviously ancient but still abides by the same tenets of design as today's stuff. More » -
Watch As Zoo Keepers Struggle To Contain a Deadly Rhino Pinata [Video]
9 Feb 2012 | 12:40 pmEven zoos have to prepare for worst-case-scenarios, like when an animal escapes its enclosure. But I'm not so sure the paper mache rhinoceros used at the Ueno Zoo in Tokyo really drives the point home of how dangerous this could be. More » -
Windows on ARM Will Support Desktop Mode, But Won't Emulate Legacy Apps [Windows 8]
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Sigma Sticks Its Huge DSLR Sensor Into Tiny Cameras [Cameras]
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The Enormous Secret Weapons Depot Hidden Underneath Manhattan [Video]
9 Feb 2012 | 12:14 pmManhattan's SoHo neighborhood is mostly filled with bored models and stupid-expensive boutiques. But on one grimy, absolutely ignorable corner is the entrance to a cavern stuffed with guns, rockets, cocaine, and riot shields. This is where Hollywood locks and loads. More »
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Lifehacker
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What You Should Do with Your Extra Money [Video]
9 Feb 2012 | 1:00 pmRamit Sethi is a New York Times best-selling author and creator of one of our favorite personal finance sites, I Will Teach You to Be Rich. In his weekly video Q&A for Lifehacker, Ramit answers common questions about personal finance, careers, and more. This week: What should you do with your extra money? More » -
To Make Perfectly Cooked Steak, Sear It When Frozen Then Cook It in the Oven [Cooking]
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How to Deal with an Asshole Parker [Video]
9 Feb 2012 | 12:00 pmYou finally find a spot in a packed parking lot and somebody's parked over the line so you can't fit. Or you've been waiting for someone to leave the lot and somebody pulls in to steal your claimed space. There are plenty of ways to be an asshole parker in this world, but few good ways to deal with them. Here's the best way to handle the situation. More » -
Ask and Answer Questions About Getting Rid of Old Junk [Help Yourself]
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Quirky Scribe Is a Lapdesk That Can Carry Your Laptop, Textbooks, and Pens [Stuff We Like]
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Web leader: Apple, Google power causing Open Web crisis
9 Feb 2012 | 12:40 pmApple and Google dominate mobile browsing so much that the Web is being infected with proprietary technologies again, just like the bad days of IE6, Daniel Glazman says. -
Mosaic LCD tiles: When wall paintings aren't enough
9 Feb 2012 | 12:37 pmLooking to spruce up your home with some decorative wall art? These Mosaic LCD Tiles from Planar will certainly do the trick. -
Kodak's high-scoring multifunction printer wants to be your office hero
9 Feb 2012 | 12:36 pmIf you're not in a rush to receive your prints, the Kodak Office Pro 6.1 makes a worthwhile sidekick with several cloud printing options, a generous 200-sheet paper input capacity, and a 35-sheet autodocument feeder for hands-free scans on the upgraded 2,400dpi scanner. -
HTC further details Ice Cream Sandwich for select devices
9 Feb 2012 | 12:11 pmThe manufacturer takes to Facebook to announce new details as to when it will bring Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to some of its handsets. -
A better Android app for hands-free text messaging
9 Feb 2012 | 12:03 pmGoogle's Voice Actions is fine for dictating messages, but what about the texts you receive? Text by Voice reads them aloud, thus keeping your hands on the wheel.
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Church Marketing Sucks
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Office Hours: Communication Volunteers & Church Social Media
8 Feb 2012 | 3:00 amEvery week I hold online office hours and answer questions from folks like you. This week we’ve got a question about communication volunteers and staff. I also take a look at the true meaning of social media and how churches can participate. Take a look and be sure to join me every Wednesday from 2-4 p.m. CST for online office hours! I’m setting up a creative team at our church to handle all the communication requirements. There are no staff on the team, just volunteers. Any advice on what to focus on most and what can wait until later? My answer: This is what I would do if I were… -
Churches Reaching Out With Pinterest
6 Feb 2012 | 5:21 amWhether you’re crazy about pinning or think that it’s just a fad, there’s no denying that Pinterest is a new player on the social media scene. In January it beat YouTube, Reddit, Google+, LinkedIn and MySpace for percentage of total referral traffic in January, according to a Shareaholic study. One church is pioneering this new territory and has some insights to share on how churches can use Pinterest. Jake Johnson is the publishing and content manager for Mars Hills Church, Resurgence and PastorMark.tv. He oversees content strategy for all of Mars Hill’s online… -
Job Board: Director, Web & Media
3 Feb 2012 | 6:15 amAre you looking for a job in church communications? The CFCC Job Board has some listings that you might be interested in. Here are a few of the recent listings to the board: Hempfield United Methodist Church in Lancaster, Penn., is looking for a director of communications. Click here for details. Northview Church in Carmel, Ind., is looking for a web coordinator. Click here for details. Victory Highway Wesleyan Church in Painted Post, N.Y., is looking for a media designer. Click here for details. Is your church looking for a communications professional? Be sure to get your free listing on the… -
Lessons from Bible Billboards in Egypt
1 Feb 2012 | 6:09 amOn Sunday my church had a visit from the general secretary of the Bible Society of Egypt, Ramez Atallah. His visit coincided with the one-year anniversary of the beginning of the Egyptian revolution. But rather than a typical discussion of passing out Bibles, he offered a lesson in marketing. In Egypt the Bible Society isn’t allowed to evangelize, so they advertise. They’re not allowed to give Bibles away, so they sell them. Atallah admitted he freely borrows from the business world, saying “If it works for Pizza Hut, it can work for us.” That includes using billboards and… -
Annual Report: We Need Your Help
31 Jan 2012 | 11:54 amWe need your help. As an organization that has delivered thousands of breakthrough moments—those key sparks that frustrate, educate and motivate the church to communicate, with uncompromising clarity, the truth of Jesus Christ—we believe there is even more to be done. We’ll get to that in a moment. First, 2011 was a remarkable year and I want to celebrate what took place. Last year included events such as the launch of Outspoken: Conversations on Church Communication, Creative Missions, more CFCC meetups and the continuation of Cultivate. I’d encourage you to read the 2011…
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How can organizations get along in an organic movement?
1 Feb 2012 | 10:04 pmThere’s something about a movement that attracts attention, people and/or media and/or whatever. Some more than others. There’s the Tea Party movement.. Occupy movement.. Arab Spring movement.. movements can be social, political, even religious. Some people have a degree of uneasiness with calling something that’s orchestrated by an organization as a movement, insinuating that a movement is more pure or more real if it is entirely organic and no one person or no one organization can be pin-pointed as the starting point of the phenomena occurring. Yes, there’s something… -
Lessons from YouTube Channels Making Money
23 Jan 2012 | 7:54 amYouTube has become quite the pop culture shaper and launched a little cottage industry for thousands. I’d anticipate that will only continue to grow. That’s entertainment! Wired magazine recently featured a dozen or so Partners in The YouTube Laugh Factory: A Studio System for Viral Video (December 2011) and distilled these 5 rules for getting noticed according to YouTube Partners (people making money via YouTube): Make a lot of content. A lot. Target a niche. Connect with your fans. Collaborate. Optimize for the algorithms. These YouTube Partners are mentioned in the Wired… -
10 Ethnicities Increasing Diversity in the OC
18 Jan 2012 | 7:20 amThe OC Register put together a colorful photo slideshow to shed light on the many immigrant groups in Orange County, California, in O.C.’s top 10 immigrant populations. The content of this post is excerpted from the slideshow’s caption text by Cindy Carcamo, with demographic data attributed to the 2010 American Community Survey and 2010 U.S. Census. [ed.note: the captions note for every group that "It's unclear what portion of this population are U.S. citizens, legal residents or in the country illegally because survey officials don't ask."] An estimated 918,000 foreign-born… -
whether to connect Twitter to Facebook or not
14 Jan 2012 | 4:34 pm2 social networks dominate the new media landscape at this point in history — Facebook and Twitter. At the time of this writing, Facebook has 800+ million active users and Twitter has 100+ million active users. Many of you, like me, use both Twitter and Facebook. But given the disparity in numbers, many more are on only Facebook and not Twitter. Thus, my rationale for sharing my Twitter tweets (which I use more) to my Facebook status updates, so that both my Twitter followers and Facebook friends can see my latest finds — a large %age of my updates are links to goodies I find. -
List of Christian podcasts that aren’t sermons
9 Jan 2012 | 6:43 amRecently I’ve been looking for podcasts to subscribe to for my commute time. I’m most interested in the intersection of social and spiritual things, aka people & relationships, which isn’t as popular as topics like technology or cooking or celebrity gossip. In the Christian podcasting world, most podcasts are sermons or teachings or devotionals or church tech; that’s okay for the masses. I’m looking to check the “other” box, not so much what books tag as “Christian life”; just Christians (and Christian-friendly people) talking about a…
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A Holy Experience
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5 Ways to Fight Through to a Loving Marriage {What You’re Trying to Tell Him When You’re Angry}
9 Feb 2012 | 3:57 amIthink we were standing outside the back door, out by the white pickup under the Big Dipper, when I turned and said it. Said I hated him. The dark can make you brave. Or a fool. But when you’re twenty-two and think you know everything, panic can tear up your chest like this howl that has to rip free. “I hate it when you stand there all quiet.” He kicks the ground with the toe of his boot, drives his hands deep into his Wranglers. Does he hear me at all? “Hate how you just pull away. Hate how you always think I’m the problem and it’s never you. Hate it, hate… -
Links for 2012-02-08 [del.icio.us]
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Links for 2012-02-07 [del.icio.us]
8 Feb 2012 | 12:00 amWhy We Need the Extraordinary 8 Percent @ Q Ideas .... Gabe Lyon, father of a son with Down Syndrome, considers the extraordinary 8 percent -- and gift of being Cade's dad. A profound read and discussion. How the Sermon on the Mount encourages the Joy Dare @Mom on a Mission... How one amazing mom took up the Joy Dare -- spurred on by the Beautitudes... Yes, yes, yes! What we're listening to while working on math... Vaughan Williams & The Lark Ascending - so beautiful... The Relevant Conference is Now Allume Social! ... have you checked out the new vision of Allume and Allume Social? allume… -
When Winds Blow & Love Tries to Hold On
7 Feb 2012 | 8:16 pmThe old threads cut up, laid down, stitched side by side, that quilt, it flaps on the line. A quilt for beds and bodies twined in the dark, hung out here to ride spring winds. The sun warms the back of a bare neck. I feel it, and on my arms. A breeze sways and the wooden pins still hold that quilt on the line. My Dad, he leans against the wire fence watching the windmill pump. The bonneted Mennonite girl comes out from the house and they talk windmills. They talk about water and wind. The things that run through your fingers and you can never quite hold. The windmill hums round with all that… -
How to Build a House {into a Family}
7 Feb 2012 | 7:12 amThey build it with their own hands. They build it in the angling sun and they are loud and happy and they pack in in all the gaps with handfuls of snow spraying like sweet sugar everywhere. They talk of sleeping under stars and sleeping in coats under blankets and with a flashlight and candles and the dog, the dog right there at the door. When one lies down, they nudge on; they have this vision. They say that this will be like nothing ever before, the most beautiful one ever. Levi pulls off his touque, hot and sweaty, and piles his snow high on the wall. They build this snow house. They hand…
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Out of Ur
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Hello, Rob Bell
7 Feb 2012 | 10:00 pmA conversation about work, mission, and why some Christians throw "crap" parties. -
SGM-Gate Case Closed
6 Feb 2012 | 10:00 pmC.J. Mahaney has been reinstated as president of Sovereign Grace Ministries, but questions linger about the investigation. -
Unexpected Grace
5 Feb 2012 | 10:00 pmGod is at work through the most unlikely people. A helpful reminder for us self-important types. -
Celebrity Pastors, Bloggers, and Questions of Authority
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Back to (a Theology of) Work We Go...
30 Jan 2012 | 10:00 pmWhy the church must talk about "vocation" and not just "mission" if it hopes to engage young adults.
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Holy Kaw!
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Romance survey [infographic]
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Do aliens go invisible by 'going green'?
9 Feb 2012 | 11:24 amAs we discover more and more planets around other stars, the Fermi Paradox is becoming, well, more paradoxical. The Fermi Paradox simply asks the question "where are they?" Our Milky Way galaxy is so big and so old -- and we are estimated to be accompanied by at least 100 billion planets -- that aliens should have visited us by now. Instead, when we peruse the heavens, we are faced with the Great Silence, which is one of the biggest challenges to modern astronomy. Full story at Discovery News. More news from Discovery Communications. Photo credit: Fotolia Permalink | Leave a… -
Mysterious sounds reported around the world
9 Feb 2012 | 11:23 amPeople around the world have reported hearing strange sounds from the skies over the past month. Sometimes they describe it as a hum or low rumble; other times it’s a whine, thump, or even a melody. Often the sounds have been recorded and posted online, fueling rumors and conspiracy theories. One blogger wrote, "either the world is ending, aliens are landing or everyone is getting hoaxed. Or, possibly, there’s an actual scientific explanation for the mass amount of YouTube videos capturing bizarre sounds that are being heard around the globe. Are we witnessing the beginning of a… -
Costa Concordia: an ecological time bomb
9 Feb 2012 | 11:21 amAs workers begin to extract the half-million gallons of fuel in the shipwrecked cruise liner, locals are worried that their pristine waters are in danger. Reporting by Rossella Lorenzi. Written and produced by Rossella Lorenzi and Martin Berman. Full story at Discovery News. More news from Discovery Communications. Permalink | Leave a comment » -
Inside Syria's capitol: nervously normal
9 Feb 2012 | 11:18 amAs the violence in Syria continues to escalate, Syrian citizens are arming themselves to resist their oppressive regime. For days, Homs, the third-largest city in Syria, has endured shelling, tanks and attacks by heavy weaponry. Syrian protestors react with more violence against forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, resulting in all-out war zones in some residential neighborhoods. Full story at Discovery News. More news from Discovery Communications. Permalink | Leave a comment »
