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Anti-Georgia Russian hackers may have been behind yesterday’s global cyber attacks on Google, Facebook and Twitter.The organised web assaults completely shut down social networking site Twitter and disrupted access to Facebook — nearly a year to the day since the outbreak of the Georgia-Russia war.

Anti-Georgia Russian hackers may have been behind yesterday’s global cyber attacks on Google, Facebook and Twitter.The organised web assaults completely shut down social networking site Twitter and disrupted access to Facebook — nearly a year to the day since the outbreak of the Georgia-Russia war.

Tehran, Iran (News worthy) – Rioting explodes in the capital Tehran, Iran Saturday, June 13, said after the election of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Clashed with demonstrators after the police announcement by Iran of the Interior, Sadeq Mahsouli, that Ahmadinejad had won 62.6 percent of the vote, twice as many votes as his nearest competitor, the Reform candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, who received 33.75 %.

Mousavi is alleged that the vote was marred by serious voting irregularities, and thousands of his supporters on the streets of Tehran. Some threw stones at police who used batons to push through the back of the protesters, Voice of America (VOA) network reported.

Videos received by employees of VOA Persian News Network in their personal accounts of the social networking site Facebook showing thousands of opposition supporters in the streets of Tehran, the network said.

Free vote

In his address, President Ahmadinejad said the vote was completely “free”, says that people voted for his policies.

Analysts say they were surprised because they are projected tight race between incumbent president and former Prime Minister, Mousavi.

Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, gave a high evaluation of the results, saying high electoral activity by over 80 percent – and 24 million votes “for” Ahmadinejad is a real celebration. ”

Ahmadinejad rivals have accused of him badly mismanaging the economy and spot images of Iran, further isolating the country from the west. The news was also expected to lead to concern among members of the Christian minority, including former Muslims
converted to Christianity.

Dozens of people were detained and at least five Christians were still missing, “said Christian rights groups.

The world reacts

Israel has also expressed concern, saying: this can complicate discussions on Iran nuclear program, including fears the Islamic nation is the creation of nuclear weapons. Tehran says its program is for peaceful purposes.

“The problem is Iran with the international community is not personal, but its policy,” Foreign Minister of Israel, Avigdor Lieberman said in a statement.

U. S. Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton said she hoped that the outcome reflects the will and desire of the Iranian voters.

Clinton spoke in a Fols Niagara, Ontario, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada, Lawrence Cannon, who said that his country was also “deeply concerned” by reports of irregularities, the Associated Press News Agency reported.

Hadi Ghaemi, a spokesperson of the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran denounced the outcome as “Tiananmen Tehran” – a reference to the brutal repression in China in 1989 PRO democracy – and urged the international community not to recognize the result.

Judging by an increase in temperature of the blogosphere, geeks from around the world are counting down for the moment when they can own their piece of real estate Facebook. At exactly 12:01 p.m. ET, the popular social networking site that allows members to ask for a “vanity” URL – which replaces the unfortunate sequence of numbers that identifies each user by the name of the person’s election.

Facebook first announced the initiative earlier this week in a blog post on the company.

“When your friends, family or work colleagues to visit their profile pages on Facebook or will be able to enter the user name, such as the direction of your browser. Therefore, people will have an easy way to know – it “said Blaise DiPersia creator. “We hope to offer even more ways to use your user name in Facebook’s future.”

Since then, the buzz around the project increase. This is good for Facebook. But it is good for you? Well, it depends. Suppose you have a single name – Matthew Shaer comes to mind – that should not be any work. But the name is John Smith your thumbs better be pretty dang fast.

‘It is only a matter of me to stay late enough to do it, “Amy Belmonte, director of an office in Meriden, Connecticut, told ABC News.

Others are preparing for an epic battle. Writing in The Daily Beast, Douglas Rushkoff said, “This is more than 200 million users, since, while dimming the territory’s largest trace of Oklahoma Territory’s land to run in 1889, albeit with fewer gun accidents “.

And then there are the people who are preparing to cash Pol’s Robin Wauters TechCrunch says a company called Assetize “you are preparing your user account for the highly anticipated in some quarters, is just.” The article continues:

Assetize will allow users to buy and sell [these addresses] much as you can adjust using the instructions on the so-called domain name after-market. The system already provides the same service to a variety of other accounts, like Twitter, Gmail, and nobody, and now Facebook add to your list.

Take your Facebook midnight Vanity URL

If you used Facebook before, you’ve probably noticed that the profile of web pages are really strange, something like http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=767842914. The problem with URLs is that they are impossible to remember, can not be shared easily and are not descriptive.

To resolve this problem, Facebook will start allowing users to choose “vanity URL” which will contain the name of the user. If you are called John Doe, for example, you should be able to facebook.com / johnd or facebook.com / john.doe or another combination of first and last name.

Well, you should be able to take those URLs, if it acts quickly. Facebook is the opening of the new URL to midnight Friday (EST) and have already officially stated that the work on a “first come, first served.

If you do not have a unique name, therefore, should be useful to go to 12:01 pm and secure your vanity URL.

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Chastity Bono has a sex change to a man. A spokesman for Bono, born from a daughter of Sonny and Cher, “he said” has taken the courageous decision to honor his true identity and began the process of changing sex earlier this year. Publicist Howard Bragman said Bono is proud of his decision and hopes that the choice of the transition period, the hearts of the public on this issue. ”

The 40-year, writer, activist and reality TV star came as a gay 20 years ago, “said Bragman.

In the book “Family Out: A Guide to the Coming-out process for gay, lesbians and their families,” Bono describes the realization of “something else – in particular, which is different from my mother, who have me.”

A message left by the representatives of Cher was not immediately returned Thursday.

Bono, the second book, “The End of Innocence: A Mémoire,” explains in detail how the relationship with Joan, a lover, and Sonny and Cher changed after the release.

In 1995, Bono has been given for the cover of gay magazine The Advocate and began working for the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (smooth).

No More Chastity: Chastity Bono, daughter of Cher and the late Sonny Bono, will be subject to a change of sex, according to a representative. “Chaz”, chastity and now prefers to be known, came as a lesbian at the age of 18. [ABC News]

As the Globe turns over fiction NYT-owned paper in Boston today, with the union demanding an equity stake in the newspaper, even if a potential buyer, Intercontinental Real Estate Corp., confirmed that it was in negotiations to buy the Globe (and its valuable real estate in Bean Town). [Boston Herald]

‘Man’ Got Rich: First, the author Michael Thomas won the IMPAC Dublin, which at 100,000 euros is the richest literary prize in the world. His first novel “Man Gone Down”, to the works of Doris Lessing, Philip Roth and Joyce Carol Oates. [Guardian]

Get Out of MySpace: There are rumors of a large number of redundancies to News Corp’s social networking site, with some forecasting between 300 and 500 people, more than 25 percent of the company. [Tech Crunch]

Frank sort: One day after MSNBC anchor Contessa Brewer made a belligerent guests microphone, the chairman of the Finance Committee Barney Frank of the Senate abruptly terminated an interview on CNBC after the network host, it would not meet to a question. [HuffPo]