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In Consent of the Networked, internet policy specialist Rebecca MacKinnon argues that the purpose of technology is to serve humanity, not the other way around. It’s time to wake up and act before the reversal becomes permanent.
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Gela watches two reports on Jamaican television about incidents involving members of the so-called underclass, and notes that in neither case was there any mention of the situation being investigated by the police: “I can't stand the disparity in how people are treated man“.
Zenia posts a photo from the EFE news agency of a quiet boulevard in Havana, with the title: “Havana on August 3″.
Thomo discusses the news that the city council of Mongolia's capital, Ulaanbaatar, is considering renaming the city in honor of Chingis Khan. He notes that the mania for naming things after the Great Khan gives the incorrect impression that all the country has to offer is its imperial past.
In a post titled “Information is Power” Cristian Cambronero cites statistics in Costa Rica which reveal that “42% of those to use the internet over the past 12 months belong to the wealthiest fifth of the population.”
Irina Petrosian writes on antique Armenian cookware and their specialized uses.
Nick of neweurasia reviews Murder in Samarkand, the book by Craig Murray, the outspoken former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan.
Journalist Uri Ridelman first describes “Costa Rican devotion to La Negrita” and then posts pictures from “The day of La Negrita.”
I guess it has to do with humanizing a figure we prefer to see as super-natural. The almost funny thing...
people of maldives..you have to stop this civil war. its sad to see it in this state of affairs....
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I do not support capital punishment, in this instance there have no other alternative. What these killers have done is...