http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/C/CONGO_RANGERS_IN_THE_MIST?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-01-12-13-19-38

Gorilla Sanctuary Is Congo War Front

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/12/wrussia112.xml

When Anna Kozlov caught sight of the elderly man clambering out of a car in her home village of Borovlyanka in Siberia, she stopped dead in her tracks, convinced her eyes were playing tricks.

There, in front of her, was Boris, the man she had fallen in love with and married 60 years earlier. The last time she had seen him was three days after their wedding, when she kissed him goodbye and sent him off to rejoin his Red Army unit.

By the time he returned, Anna was gone, consigned by Stalin’s purges to internal exile in Siberia with the rest of her family as an enemy of the people. They left no forwarding address.

Anna Kozlov and her 80 year old husband Boris were reunited 60 years after they first married.

http://www.reuters.com/article/musicNews/idUSN1232885120080112

Imprisoned rapper Prodigy’s next album will be released in 14,000 languages as they make use of Voxonic software to take his phonemes and rearrange them to match a translation.

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/01/crime.html

Whilst I think the prank turning off monitors with a remote control at CES from a guy at Gizmodo was stupid and purile, to then argue that “Anonymity is the enemy” is way off the mark. I wonder if the Chinese Blogger who was beaten to death last week wished he was anonymous.

I have an enormous amount of respect for Seth Godin and have devoured many of his books, but this statement just seems so wrong.

http://www.localna8ion.com/

This looks like it will become a great blog focusing on local marketing.

http://www.slate.com/id/2181850/fr/rss/

How and why the Mafia control the waste (garbage) business.

http://www.themishmash.com/2008/01/and-the-words-o.html

http://www.localna8ion.com/small-business-owners-can-turn-to-tiger-woods-for-inspiration/

“This article showcases two inspiring quotes and a few observations about those quotes that are relevant to our own journey over the often rocky road of building a successful business.”

http://muhammadsaleem.com/2008/01/11/what-do-you-do-if-the-rule-breakers-arent-punished/

Taking inspiration from The Wisdom of Crowds and a Forbes article Are You a Chump, Muhammad wonders if we need to take a “if you can’t beat them, join them” attitude to the users gaming the social media sites.

http://www.healthassist.net/food/slow/slow-eating.shtml

9 reasons to eat slowly.