links for 2007-02-24
U.S. Used Base in Ethiopia to Hunt Al Qaeda in Africa – New York Times US Troops used a base in Ethiopia and made incursions… Read More »links for 2007-02-24
U.S. Used Base in Ethiopia to Hunt Al Qaeda in Africa – New York Times US Troops used a base in Ethiopia and made incursions… Read More »links for 2007-02-24
Sometimes my hunger for new data sets gets the best of me. After staring at Adrian White’s map of global happiness, I just had to… Read More »Who’s happy and why?
A few years ago, as Alex Steffen (founder of Worldchanging.com, where I serve as chairman of the board of directors) and I were getting to… Read More »Food miles: green good sense, ill-considered hype, or naked protectionism?
It’s very easy to cover a flat surface with a regular pattern of geometric shapes – in mathematics, this set of problems is referred to… Read More »Roger Penrose, only 550 years behind Islamic artisans
Biology of the Worst Kind: Jowls Are Available Lovely Jenny Diski Second Life critique, published in London Review of Books (tags: secondlife funny) Second Life… Read More »links for 2007-02-23
A court in Egypt sentenced blogger Kareem Sulaiman to four years in prison for “inciting hatred of Islam” and insulting President Hosni Mubarak. Kareem isn’t… Read More »Free Kareem, and everyone else illegally imprisoned in Egypt