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March 30, 2009

Brilliantly over-enthusiastic Italian SF manifesto, further improved by passing it through Google Translate.

March 25, 2009

German police hassling a wikileaks volunteer.

March 24, 2009

Marx's Critique of the Gotha Programme. I always fall into the trap of imagining Marx as philosopher rather than journalist, so forget how wonderfully snarky he can be. This is great fun.

South Africa has denied the Dalai Lama a visa

March 23, 2009

Fallows again, claiming that China is thinking of going back to traditional characters. Is this really plausible?

James Fallows contrasts the architectural styles of Beijing and Shanghai.

Ross Anderson (i.a.) & friends claim that one in four of the major government databases is almost certainly illegal. Full Report

And here is the German atheist bus campaign itself

The BVG is refusing to carry the atheist bus campaign - despite a slogan that makes the UK original look forthright: "Es gibt (mit an Sicherheit grenzender Wahrscheinlichkeit) keinen Gott"

March 20, 2009

Nice list of consequences of the recession

March 19, 2009

has some useful additions to the great End of Newspapers debate. Nice exchange in the comments, too.

French students occupy Sciences-Po/a>: "On veut nous enfermer dans des facultés qui tombent en ruine, alors nous nous enfermons dans l'école la plus riche"

March 13, 2009

French minister Nadine Morano is attempting to legally extract from Dailymotion the IPs of users who have been defaming her. Evidence of a cross-channel partnership of Nadines to be bone-headed about the internet? [Although given British libel laws, Ms. Morano might well have an even easier time of it there]