How many people can say they’re just one of three bloggers in their family? Well, eat your hearts out, all of you, because not only is my kid brother Mechum penning missives from Seoul, but my Dad has also recently joined the ranks of the blognoscenti.
That’s right, he’s now rappin’ at ya live from […]
Don’t tell the fine folks at BananaGuard.com, but there’s a new kid in town. Say hello to the Banana Bunker.
(Via FA.)
NYT:
The National Security Agency has kept secret since 2001 a finding by an agency historian that during the Tonkin Gulf episode, which helped precipitate the Vietnam War, N.S.A. officers deliberately distorted critical intelligence to cover up their mistakes, two people familiar with the historian’s work say.
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BBC:
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has urged families not to mark Halloween, calling it a US custom alien to the South American nation.
“Families go and begin to disguise their children as witches. This is contrary to our way,” Mr Chavez said during his weekly radio and TV show.
He also said Halloween was a “game of terror”, […]
BBC:
Bolivia’s general election - supposed to be taking place on 4 December - has been postponed amid a row over the reallocation of congressional seats.
The election was called earlier this year as a way of ending street protests that had led to the resignation of President Carlos Mesa in June.
But a fresh row has broken […]
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You have to see it to believe it.
Yoda, Star+Wars
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First it was the WNBA’s Sheryl Swoopes. And now it’s Star Trek’s Sulu. It’s been a big week for coming out. Must be something in the air.
Could it be?
pyramid, Bosnia
Thanks to a loyal reader for pointing out that the above pic, which I recently snapped using a slow-exposure setting and a small tripod, was featured on the Washington blog DCist today. I spotted a Metro bus gliding to a stop outside my place on Rhode Island Avenue and 2nd st., NW the other night, […]
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Turns out that video I linked to a few days back is only one of many available from China’s own “The Back Dormitory Boys.”
BBC:
A former Khmer Rouge commander convicted over the 1994 murder of three Western tourists has been captured in Cambodia, officials have said.
They said that Chhouk Rin - who had been on the run for nearly a year - was detained in the north of the country.
Chhouk Rin was given a life sentence in 2002 for […]
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Everyone’s favorite search engine appears to marching steadily toward its goal of indexing every piece of digital content in the universe.
Welcome to Google Base:
Google Base is Google’s database into which you can add all types of content. We’ll host your content and make it searchable online for free.
Examples of items you can find in […]
BBC:
Taiwan has responded to bird flu fears by starting work on its own version of the anti-viral drug, Tamiflu, without waiting for the manufacturer’s consent.
Taiwan officials said they had applied for the right to copy the drug - but the priority was to protect the public.
Tamiflu, made by Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche, cannot cure bird-flu […]
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CNN:
Rosa Parks, who helped trigger the civil rights movement in the 1950s, died Monday, her longtime friends told CNN. She was 92.
Parks inspired the civil rights movement when she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama, in December 1955.
David Moser’s “Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard” is an entertaining look at the difficulties native English speakers face in studying what he calls the world’s hardest language to master. I can certainly say, from my own experience, that trying to wrap my head around Chinese was far and away the most difficult intellectual challege […]