A 5,200 year old piece of pottery from Iran has been discovered to embody the oldest known animation in the world -- a wild goat eating vegetation:
The wild goat motif can be seen on Iranian pottery dating back to the 4th millennium BCE, as well as jewellery pieces especially among Cassite tribes of ancient Luristan. However, the oldest wild goat representation in Iran was discovered in Negaran Valley in Sardast region, 37 kilometers from Nahok village near Saravan back in 1999. The engraved painting of wild goat is part of an important collection of lithoglyphs dating back to 8000 BCE.
However, wild goat representation with a tree is associated with Murkum, a mother goddess who was worshipped by all the Indo-Iranian women of the Haramosh valley in modern Pakistan, which culturally had closer ties with Indus and subsequently the Burnt City civilisations, than Mesopotamia, which could had influenced the ancient potter who made this unique piece.

This may or may not come as a shocker, but according to a recent FTC survey on identity theft, 16 percent of the victims said their information was stolen by people they knew, which included friends, relatives, neighbors, and coworkers. This is very important because it serves as a reminder that we need to take extra precautions whether we're at home or at work. It's probably a good idea to disable cookies, so you don't save login and password information of your accounts, and you should never keep sensitive information where thieves can easily find it.
I've gotten several emails from readers asking me how they can find out if someone has accessed their personal email account, so I thought I'd point you to an excellent post written by PCWorld's Erik Larkin on how to set a hacker alarm on your web mail box. This is a good way to find out if anyone besides you is logging into your email account.
Here's the gist:
Open an account with Onestatfree.com, and use a disposable e-mail address to complete the registration process.
You'll receive an email from OneStat with an attached file. Save the file, note the account number, and then delete the email.
Rename the file with a name that would catch a hacker's eye like "AccountPasswords." Save the .txt file as an .htm file so it opens up in a web browser.
Send an email with the .htm file to the account you want to monitor. Use a subject title that is eye catching.
Wait for the hacker to take the bait. If the attachment is opened by anyone else but you, the hit counter will record their IP address.
Hackers are very clever, so you want to change your password frequently to something that's a little harder to crack.

“Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony” airing LIVE Monday, March 10 at 8:30 PM/ET on VH1 Classic
VH1 Classic will air the “Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony” LIVE on Monday, March 10 at 8:30 PM/ET. Music fans will get to see and hear Madonna, John Mellencamp, Leonard Cohen, The Dave Clark Five and The Ventures get inducted into this esteemed musical institution as the action and music unfolds. In addition, Little Walter will be inducted into the “Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s” sideman category, and the newly named “Ahmet Ertegün Award” (formerly the non-performer category) will be presented to legendary producers, Gamble & Huff.
For the second time, the induction ceremony will be telecast LIVE from the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City on VH1 Classic and MHD: MTV Networks’ high-definition music channel on Monday, March 10 at 8:30 PM/ET. In addition, a special two and a half hour highlight edition will premiere on VH1 on Saturday, March 22 at 11:00 PM ET/PT. PM.

So here’s the skinny - we get this email from the public re-lations department for the Blu-ray Association asking if we’d be willing to come down to LA and spend 2 days in intense meetings with BD reps. Now the most recent info says that BD is outselling HD DVD 2 to 1 and there's a ton of new titles coming out for the holidays - blockbusters that can meet or exceed the recent buzz of the Transformers HD DVD. So, since we’re curious by nature, we say yes and the next thing we know we’re inside a lounge that’s filled with Plasma screens running Blu-ray movies like Spider-Man 3, 300 and Chicken Little.

This is followed almost immediately by our being bused (along with a gaggle of other journalists) over to Twentieth Century Fox. Once there, we’re herded into a screening room and treated to scenes from their upcoming BD titles (looking forward to AVP: Alien Vs. Predator next year) - one being Live Free or Die Hard having a BD-Java game for trying to grab some hackers. Fox’s head of engineering points out that the high bit-rate insures a splendid, high-resolution image (he’s right), and that for those whose home theater has D-Box capabilities (which involves having the seat you’re in jump around like a bucking bronco), the technology is right there inside the disc.

Location, location, location: Have your CPU tucked away in a cabinet or hidden on the floor beneath your desk? Well... don't. Your system needs plenty of ventilation to keep cool—about a foot on every side, according to smartcomputing. And while the floor may seem like a relatively cool place for your CPU, it's also a breeding ground for dust and dirt, which could block your system's all-important cooling fans. Finally, keep your system in the shade—direct sunlight may brighten your mood while you're working, but it's a serious no-no for your components.
Clean out the dust: Over time, a fair amount of dust and dirt will collect inside your CPU—it's inevitable—and as I just noted above, that dust will eventually start to block the cooling fans. Beat back the dust by opening your PC's case (don’t be afraid, a simple Philips-head screwdriver should do the trick) and spraying around the wires, circuits, and cooling fans with a can of compressed air (available at any office supply store). Squeamish about opening the case? Then just spray the cooling fans themselves—it's better than nothing. Got a laptop? Spray around the cooling vents on the sides and bottom. Repeat once a week or so and you should be in good shape.

Shut down your laptop at night: Leaving your desktop running all day, every day might be fine (if not terribly green). But laptops, which tend to run hot anyway, need their beauty sleep. If it's Miller time, go ahead and shut your notebook down for the night.

After UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva choked out PRIDE middleweight champion Dan Henderson in the title unification match Saturday night, there weren’t a lot of people willing to argue his reputation as the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world.
About the only person who would is Anderson Silva.
“I still don’t consider myself the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world,” he said after his second-round win via tapout with a choke, against the man whom most felt stylistically had the best chance to beat him. “Maybe when I retire, I can look back and then say I was the best pound-for-pound.”
Silva overwhelmed Henderson standing late in the round, putting him down after a hard knee and trade of punches. He got behind Henderson and threw numerous punches to the side of the head before he began working for a choke. With eight seconds left in the round, Henderson tapped out.
Henderson won the first round. After some wild action, he scored a takedown and connected with hammer fists to the side of Silva’s head for the remainder of the round.
Things changed in the second round, mostly standing, and it was Silva’s multipronged attack of punches, kicks and knees that overwhelmed Henderson.
Henderson had been finished only twice in his prior 28 matches, in a career loaded with foes who were top fighters and almost always bigger than him. Aside from the one takedown in the first round, and ensuing advantage period, the former Olympic wrestler wasn’t able to do a lot.
Henderson threw wildly, and Silva’s superior technical standup saw him score with many kicks, particularly in the second round as Henderson started to fade.
Fighters Jon Fitch, Diego Sanchez, Jorge Gurgel and Josh Koscheck were blown away by Silva and said his pound-for-pound reputation was deserved.
“Josh Koscheck and I shared a training room with him before the fight,” said Fitch, who put himself in line for a welterweight title match with a win over Chris Wilson on the show. “Watching him hit the (focus) mitts, I’ve never seen anyone, including pro boxers, with so much agility and hit with so much power.”
Koscheck said: “He’s a bad dude. I don’t want to fight him.”
Gurgel, the training partner of Rich Franklin, noted that he knows firsthand what Franklin can do, and it was scary how easy Silva made beating Franklin look in both of their previous matches.
The big question is who will face Silva next. At 21-4, Silva, who picked up $120,000 in added bonuses for both match of the night and best submission, feigned a frightened look when asked about moving to light heavyweight and facing Quinton Jackson, then said it wasn’t his immediate goal.
Another potential opponent at middleweight, Black House stablemate and unbeaten World Extreme Cagefighting champion Paulo Filho, was ruled out.
“It’s impossible,” Silva said through an interpreter. “We train together, and that’s not going to happen.”
UFC president Dana White said that in his mind, when the stars are aligned, any fight is possible.
Silva’s most logical next opponent for a UFC title match appears to be Yushin Okami (23-4). He knocked out Evan Tanner on Saturday night with a knee.
Okami is the last person to gain a win over Silva, in a Jan. 20, 2006, match in Honolulu, via disqualification for an illegal kick. Silva said that he didn’t have the rules properly explained to him, which caused the miscue. Silva has won seven fights since.
A crowd of 16,431 fans at the Nationwide Arena in Columbus were pro-Henderson when the match started. Even though Silva is from Brazil, he received only a smattering of boos when the match started and won over everyone by the end.

It’s not a huge revelation that the way to improve your writing skills and perfect them to their fullest potential, is to practice as much as possible. All writers know this obvious fact but so often we tend to stop for the day if what we think we wrote was shit or fail to even start writing until we can come up with what seems like an award winning idea for the context. But if we really want to find ways to improve our writing skills, it is imperative that we constantly remind ourselves that even if we write nothing worth developing three days in a row, at lease we are getting more and more writing practice and even if it sucks, it will still without a doubt contribute to the betterment of our skills. Maybe you don’t like what you’ve written down on the paper but what you write takes thoughts and thoughts of any sort lead to more thoughts just as creativity jumpstarts creativity and if you simply relax and keep trying when you think you’ve failed, something worthy is almost guaranteed to eventually spill out onto the page. It is hard sometimes, though, as a writer to make time to practice ways to improve your writing skills, especially if you seem to be in a writing funk. If you find yourself longing to practice writing more often but you see yourself pushing it off and procrastinating almost involuntarily for various reasons, it may be time to introduce another party into the picture. By another party, I am referring to a writing partner.