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November 28, 2006

A Blogger's Blog: Exploring the Definition of a Medium - new paper from danah boyd.

November 20, 2006

Georgia's new Economy Minister is another official who worked under Saakashvili in the Justice Ministry before the rose revolution. Is this paranoia? Patronage? General unwillngness to use the available talent?

New piece by Seymour Hersh, largely about Iran.

Consider my hat eaten: Okruashvili claims he really is going abroad to take some courses, before returning to politics. Case of Saakashvili managing to come up with a compromise offer, or did I just misread the entire situation?

November 19, 2006

Little things irritate me the most - like the US conveniently deciding that religious freedom is OK in Vietnam the day before George Bush visits.

Poland's lost 800,000 workers to the rest of the EU, so they're importing labourers from Ukraine and Belarus (NY Times). Hate to say it, comrades, but this is global capitalism at its best.

November 18, 2006

The Onion: a better pick-me-up than 10,000 inane depression-help websites.

November 9, 2006

Borat banned in Russia

November 8, 2006

Gah! The US govt. is shutting down the body that audits spending in Iraq.

History of Indian Mathematics: overexcited by informative.

Many papers on Sanskrit mathematics, science, etc.

November 7, 2006

Stanford has a Berkman clone?

Ethan writes about relations between Africa and China, a subject I've been fascinated by in the past. Ethan has a great collection of links.

UK, China, Russia: world's worst surveillance states. Boy, do I know how to pick 'em :(

November 4, 2006

Chinese propaganda posters (with translations of the text)

Help type and proofread a French-English dictionary

Neweurasia and Registan are following the protests in Bishkek. Baisalov would be too, but livejournal is dead right now.

protests can

November 3, 2006

Cryptography, from Eve's point of view (XKCD)

Another Georgian blog - only intermittently updated, but linked to a website that has had some care taken over it.

Goodison and Morris, Ancient Goddesses: review of a book recounting the history of the obsession.