A Blogger's Blog: Exploring the Definition of a Medium - new paper from danah boyd.
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A Blogger's Blog: Exploring the Definition of a Medium - new paper from danah boyd.
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?
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.
The Onion: a better pick-me-up than 10,000 inane depression-help websites.
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.
UK, China, Russia: world's worst surveillance states. Boy, do I know how to pick 'em :(
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
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.