Across the United States, Muslims who find that a public school education clashes with their religious or cultural traditions have turned to home schooling. That choice is intended as a way to build a solid Muslim identity away from the prejudices that their children, boys and girls alike, can face in schoolyards.

Guy Kawasaki: There is an art to sucking up. Done too blatantly it will backfire. Done too weakly, you won’t get what you want. The perfect suck up contains the following elements:

You’ve heard of liquid cooled computers. Often times these are the ultra tricked-out gaming rigs that run multiple of the latest video cards, the fastest CPUs (overclocked), and an enormous power supply to ensure everything receives its required amount of juice. But odds are that you haven’t heard of a computer made at least partially […]

The supremely talented Coop is working on a new painting, and he’s letting his blog readers in on his work process and thoughts. Fascinating stuff. We wish more artists would do this.

Motorola has announced that it will split into a couple of publicly traded entities in order to separate its loss-making handset division from its other businesses. This news has been received positively by investors, seeing the Motorola share price soaring more than 10%.

It only makes sense: a rug that lights up when you walk on it. They call it Footlume.
“The glow that the rug emits is very soft,” said co-inventor Leona Dean, of London South Bank University, who also noted the innovation’s party applications, “It can provide ambient mood lighting or flash in time to music as […]

 
Dr Tomoaki Kato had to remove a lot more than a cancerous tumor during an unprecedented operation on a 63-year-old Florida woman earlier this month.
To get to the tumor, which was buried deep in Brooke Zepp’s abdomen and threatened to kill her within months, the organ transplant specialist said he first had […]

This is a great site!  They show the glaring difference between the image of the food on the outside of the package and what it really looks like on the inside.  Several more examples and a video after the jump.
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ObDgBLFo9w

This one is very cool.  Who knew monkeys could swim? Additional video after the jump.
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyQjr1YL0zg

Watch the video all the way to the end to experience a veritable shock of disbelief.  Quite amazing. Second video after the jump.
 

Designer Kathleen Dustin makes purses - but not just any purses, her creations are nothing short of stunning. We love the “pod” series (above), where the purses are shaped like fruits and flowers, and the stone series - shaped like rocks. More purses after the jump.

With more and more people viewing Muslim women as the key to dampening Muslim extremists, the British are now formalizing programs to extend their influence.
In a school in south London, women in headscarves are learning English, childcare skills and citizenship, to smooth their integration into British life. The courses are encouraged under a new government […]

Home prices fell the most on record in January while consumer confidence in the U.S. economy plunged this month, according to separate reports published yesterday.
While the reports reaffirmed pessimistic views that the country has entered a recession or is at least in a severe downturn, Wall Street greeted the news with a collective ho-hum.