What is it with offensive cartoons at the moment? Now a racist cartoon in an Iranian newspaper has triggered demonstrations of thousands of ethnic Azeris, in which the police shot five people dead.
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What is it with offensive cartoons at the moment? Now a racist cartoon in an Iranian newspaper has triggered demonstrations of thousands of ethnic Azeris, in which the police shot five people dead.
Arms sales from Eastern Europe to Iraq? meh and wtf?
Disconcerted that this article gives the same figure of 145,000 people for the Facilities Protection Service and for "145,000 officially sanctioned police officers and commandos". I sense a disturbance in the statistics; or at least some journalist getting his numbers mixed up.
Hired guns in hot spots raise regulatory questions in Iraq: an overview of issues with private militias. Apparently in Iraq there are at least 20,000 private security personnel (including Iraqis); I'm amazed that the numbers are so low.
Ethan Zuckerman on language on the net. Big, fascinating topic, something that should be in the back of everybody's mind but isn't.
Opposition to nuclear energy within the Cabinet is apparently based on cost rather than environmental worries. That probably makes it a good opportunity for people like me geeky enough to look at the figures. Adds to the list
O RLY: thesis, antithesis, synthesis.Hilarious, but perhaps only because all over-geeky humour is.
Protests in Mongolia: good summary, not something I'd even noticed before
Public Diplomacy in Virtual Worlds. Put here because it's something I should read, but like most worldchanging articles the writing style makes me want to skip it.
Too funny not to propagate: fisticuffs in the Iraqi parliament over a phone ringtone.
It may be by Tariq Ali, and it may be yet another summary of why not to attack Iran. But despite that, this article isn't bad at all.
Interesting Metal, a discussion on Barbelith.
The Atlantic has a (possibly very old, but detailed) article on the history of the diamon industry (via Denny)
Long, long Terra Nova discussion on the future of MMORPGs