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At least they’re educational. They have to be. In order to explain what happened, one has to go even further back to explain the context in which it happened, then back farther still to explain the reasons for that context. I learned more about modern American history in the week of Reagan’s [...]

Categories: History

Engadget - Dr. Who fan’s life-size Dalek seized outside Parliament

So this Dr. Who fan named Ken Meikle constructed a full and completely motorized Dalek replica, then he gets inside, drives it over the Tower Bridge in London, parks it in front of Parliament, squawks off some pre-recorded Dalek jibberish, and gets promptly seized [...]

Categories: Entertainment

Chrenkoff linked to this paper in his Good News, and I was so impressed and amazed, I had to quit with the updates.

That’s the Sunday cover of the Daily Times, whose tagline is: “Your right to know - A new voice for a new Pakistan.” Now, how’s that for good news?

So, being the [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

In Chicago and parts east.

Time for Chrenkoff’s Good news from Iraq, Part 24!

Update:

Oh no:

The new Iraqi media is already among the most diverse in the region, but it can benefit from a lot more foreign assistance and expertise, such this initiative from Canada: “The federal government [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

To celebrate, because this is a happy day, I direct you to Oolong, the cutest bunny ever featured at great length on the web.

Oolong - うさぎのページ

Categories: People and Current Events

Silent Running - The miners! United! Will never be defeated!

Tom has an interesting theory that Liberals are Miners butting heads with Maggie.

Defeated they were, comprehensively, deciseively and in detail. Scargill and his style of militant British trade unionism never really recovered, and a good thing too. Sure, let’s all watch “Brassed Off”, or [...]

Categories: Politics

I told you people I should be Absolute Monarch](http://www.ninme.com/about.html).

Via A.E. Brain, I took a Myers-Briggs test:

You are: - slightly expressed extrovert (1%) - slightly expressed sensing personality (12%) - moderately expressed thinking personality (38%) - moderately expressed judging personality (44%)

The Portrait of the Supervisor

Extraverted Sensing Thinking Judging

ESTJs thrive on order and continuity. Being extraverted, their focus involves [...]

Categories: Wildcard

Zach Braff has impeachable taste.

FOXnews - ‘Scrubs’ Star to Direct Video

NEW YORK  — ”Scrubs” star Zach Braff is returning to the director’s chair. Braff, who wrote and directed “Garden State” last year, will direct the latest video from singer-songwriter Gavin DeGraw.

Gavin DeGraw - The song playing (should be Chariot Accoustic) is really good. [...]

Categories: Entertainment

BBC - Breeding success for rare kakapo, By Kim Griggs in Wellington, New Zealand

Down on a lonely island off the southern tip of New Zealand, three new kakapo have just been born. These new chicks bring the total number of one of the world’s rarest birds to 86.

ninme claps and [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

Sort of.

Wired Magazine - Media Wish List for 2005

1. Google News should become a for-profit enterprise Google should place ads on its Google News service so publishers can unleash a spate of cease-and-desist letters claiming copyright infringement. That way the courts can get down to determining what is “fair use” [...]

Categories: Business & Media

A.E. Brain - The North Korean Waiting Game

A nice little roundup of where things stand in that dark patch on the map. I submit, as a humble addendum, my own recent contribution to the subject, which involving cell phones and VCRs.

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

It’s three months less one day from (Western) Christmas to Easter this year. And it’s three months exactly since the tsunami hit.

Chrenkoff has another excellent roundup of everything fit to print (and yet never is), including the Oxfam study I linked to last night about four times as many women killed than men were, [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Times Online - Story which transforms both living and dying; Credo by Geoffrey Rowell - Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe

The religious imagination has in many different ways and in many different cultures provided symbols and images which enable us to relate our personal lives to an overarching story of meaning and purpose. Many [...]

Categories: Art and Literature

Read this. You absolutely won’t regret it. I’ll absolutely never forgive you if you don’t.

Dean’s World - God’s People

(Think that got their attention?)

Curtsy: Chrenkoff, who always has something lovely to share.

Categories: People and Current Events

A World Connected - Social Entrepreneurs - Norman Borlaug: A Billion Lives Saved

Curtsy: Glenn. Highlights:

Borlaug was inspired into defining a mission for his life: to spread the benefits of high-yield farming to the many nations where crop failures on the scale of the Dust Bowl were a basic fact of life.

How deliciously [...]

Categories: Science and Nature