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Iranian cyberactivism: welcome to weblogistan

Many thanks to our good Iranian friend Homeyra for pointing out this fascinating article on a research project on Iran’s webloggers in Global Voices online. With more than two-thirds (2/3) … Continue reading

9 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

I’m no pushover, says next U.N. chief

By Paul Holmes and Evelyn Leopold | Sat Oct 14, 2006 6:07 AM ET UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The next secretary-general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon of South Korea, … Continue reading

16 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

The truth about the sword

by CHANDRA MUZAFFAR JUST :: 22 September 2006  It was Albert Einstein who once noted that it is easier to split the atom than to crack a prejudice. One such … Continue reading

11 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Cigars and sex ‘boost Cuba lives’

Perhaps its cigarettes bad, cigars good? :) AP / Jose Goitia Cuban Mercedes Martinez, left,72, and Josefa Gamet, 62 make money posing for photos for foreign tourists in Old Havana, … Continue reading

6 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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