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If Facebook has its way (and it usually does), over the coming years a ton of websites and online services will become part of the open graph that Facebook is promoting, with Facebook firmly planted in the middle. The concept is very interesting, and the potential for this web of data from a wide variety of sources is enormous. You could say that Facebook will tie all our information, and the whole web, together.
Read the rest at royal.pingdom.com (hat tip Will Reichard)
Do you know the difference between an Al-Amira and a Burqa? I didn't until I read this piece. Click through to the original and check out the explanation with graphics. And will someone please explain to me the efficacy of passing a law that applies to a grand total of 30 women? Does Belgium see this as such an uptrend that they will be overrun?
Belgium's lower house of parliament has voted for a law that would ban women from wearing the full Islamic face veil in public.
The law would ban any clothing that obscures the identity of the wearer in places like parks and on the street. No-one voted against it.
The law now goes to the Senate, where it may face challenges over its wording, which may delay it.
If passed, the ban would be the first move of its kind in Europe.
Only around 30 women wear this kind of veil in Belgium, out of a Muslim population of around half a million.
Read the rest at news.bbc.co.uk
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