{"id":1581,"date":"2006-10-03T07:41:49","date_gmt":"2006-10-03T12:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1581"},"modified":"2006-10-03T09:05:18","modified_gmt":"2006-10-03T14:05:18","slug":"xeni-goes-wild-on-tibet-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/xeni-goes-wild-on-tibet-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Xeni goes wild &#8212; on Tibet updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xeni.net\/trek\/\">Xeni&#8217;s blog<\/a> added a lot of stories last night. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xeni.net\/trek\/2006\/10\/interview-miss-tibet-pageant-founder.html\">A good long interview<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/McL\/Day1McL\/Day1McL-Pages\/Image46.html\">Lobsang Wangyal<\/a> in his role as organizer of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.misstibet.com\/\">the Miss Tibet Pageant<\/a>. He&#8217;s also the head of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tibetanjournalists.org\/\">the Association of Tibetan Journalists<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hs.fi\/english\/article\/Dalai+Lama+says+his+successor+could+even+be+a+Finnish+woman\/1135222025776\">A bit from a Finnish newspaper about the Dalai Lama<\/a> in which he says that his successor could 1) be chosen by election or by the traditional reincarnation method and that 2) his successor could be a woman &#8212; even a Finnish woman. He sent a warning to the Chinese about the delicate environment of the Himalayas. His final message in the interview: <em>&#8220;Live happy and spread happiness around you&#8221;<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xeni.net\/trek\/2006\/10\/dalai-lama-my-successor-could-be.html\">Xeni link here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The developers of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torrify.com\/\">TorPark, a USB portable <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/tor.eff.org\/\">Tor<\/a> tunnel builder, have dedicated their latest release to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Panchen_Lama\">Panchen Lama<\/a> Gedhun Choekyi Nyima. One of the Panchen Lama&#8217;s supporter wrote to the Torpark team with news of an open reward for $30,000 (USD) for anyone who establishes contact with the abducted religious figure &#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xeni.net\/trek\/2006\/10\/reward-offered-for-contact-with.html\"> reports Xeni<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how TorPark describes itself:<br \/>\n<em>Torpark launchs a Tor circuit connection, which creates an encrypted tunnel from your computer indirectly to a Tor exit computer, allowing you to surf the internet anonymously.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xeni.net\/trek\/2006\/10\/drm-free-tibetan-music-for-sale-at.html\">A bit about DRM-free Tibetan music for sale<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cruxy.com\/home\">Cruxy.com<\/a>. Cruxy is a marketplace for &#8221; independent original creativity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d swear there was a bit about Cisco making a donation to <a href=\"http:\/\/summit.airjaldi.com\/\">the Air Jaldi Summit<\/a>, but I can&#8217;t find it. A Cisco rep, Jim Forster, will be at the Summit to talk about <a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.cisco.com\/dlls\/hd_012303.html\">their world&#8217;s highest WiFi in Nepal<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/summit.airjaldi.com\/home\/program\/list-of-speakers-panelists\/\">Some others to be at the Summit<\/a> include <a href=\"http:\/\/danesecooper.blogs.com\/divablog\/\">Danese Cooper<\/a> (who was at the Delhi <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Owning_the_Future\">&#8220;Owning the Future Conference&#8221;<\/a>) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fsf.org\/\">FSF<\/a>&#8216;s RMS aka <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stallman.org\/\">Richard Stallman<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xeni&#8217;s blog added a lot of stories last night. A good long interview with Lobsang Wangyal in his role as organizer of the Miss Tibet Pageant. He&#8217;s also the head of the Association of Tibetan Journalists. 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