Iran may not sign gas pipeline pact with Pakistan next week

Source: The Economic Times

NEW DELHI: Iran is unlikely to sign next week a bilateral agreement with Pakistan for export of natural gas and has said it was keen on India joining the tri-nation ‘peace’ pipeline project. “As we speak, there is no ceremony scheduled for signing of Gas Sales Purchase Agreement (GSPA) with Pakistan next week,” a senior Iranian official told PTI from Tehran.

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Ron Paul Still Tops The Charts On The Internet

Primaries? What primaries?!? All that matters is that Rep Ron Paul, the lovable Presidential candidate that the Internet has embraced, is still top of the charts when it comes to Internet searches!

Over at The Lycos 50, they’re showing off their latest list of the most searched on candidates, and there he is, sitting in the number one spot, Ron Paul. Now, never mind he only got 8% of the vote in New Hampshire, he is being searched on an astounding 150% more than the candidate in second place, Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee. Third place, and topping the Democrats, is Senator Hillary Clinton.

The overall list is fairly interesting, more so than the primaries to me:

1. Ron Paul

2. Mike Huckabee

3. Hillary Clinton

4 Mitt Romney

5. Barack Obama

6. Fred Thompson

7. John Edwards

8. John McCain

9. Alan Keyes

10. Rudy Giuliani

As things are shaping up, Barack Obama has seen the biggest leap in the past 6-months, with an impressive 167% jump in searches, while Fred Thompson has actually slid, John Edwards has held study, and Rudy Giuliani barely registers on the change radar.

Maybe it’s just that older than most of the folks around here, but I have just never seen anything like this.  While I am certainly not endorsing a candidate, going by traditional measuring, Ron Paul has about as much luck as an armadillo in a freeway during rush hour: i.e. No chance.  However, when you go on the Internet, he’s been hailed as the man who can lead us all to the Promised Land.

I don’t begrudge his supporters one bit, I just don’t get the online/off-line disconnect.

Zotero Is Your Online Research Assistant

Zotero (pronounced “zoh-TAIR-oh”) is a new browser plugin that is aiming to help you with your online research for any number of projects.

This tool will help you automatically store citations of webpages used in your research, store PDFs, take notes, export information, integrates with WordPress… basically it sounds like it will take out all the tedium of research and just let you concentrate on the important parts of looking for sources. I’m not sure there is any bigger pain in the universe than writing bibliography, so this sounds like a dream come true to me.

Currently the plugin works with Firefox 2.0, Netscape Navigator 9.0, or Flock 0.9.1, and is suited for cross-platform performance on Windows, Mac, and Linux.