Ethiopian asylum seekers give a three fingered Serbia salute at their training base in Pambukovica
I though this might be a spoof, but its real.
“Serbian athletics need not worry for its results in the sport’s long-distance events for some time, as for the first time ever Serbian athletic team will incorporate top class competitors [...]
Love this picture of my Kum and Kumche. Igor (the small one) is officially the cutest child in the universe.
Please watch this powerful and beautiful short speech by Jill Bolte Taylor about how she came to observer her own stoke as it happened, and how it transformed her life.
TED | Talks | Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight (video)
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Guest blogger Steve Hurford examines Serbia’s options in what he sees as very much Serbia’s post Kosovo era
Serbia has just lost its heartland, the spiritual home of the Serb Nation and, quite frankly, a beautiful but ultimately useless lump of rock with an ungovernable majority Muslim population.
Many would have you believe that Serbia is currently [...]
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
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Miroslav Tichy, originally uploaded by Jahsonic.
From the superb Art and Popular Culture wiki:
“During many years Tichý wandered the small Moravian town of Kyjov in rags, pursuing his obsession with the female form by secretly photographing [...]
Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, Better: Gina Trapani: Books
(tags: wishlist)
From B92:
LEBANE — The Swedish ambassador says Serbia will probably join the EU between 2012 and 2015, together with Croatia.
Krister Bringeus said that the EU wanted to accelerate the integration process, but that that depended on whether Serbia wanted to continue its European path.
“The tango is a dance for two, one can’t dance alone. Europe [...]
John M Willis has a superb post - Demystifying Clouds - on the the state and future of utility computing and clouds.
If you have any interest at all in the future of computing, this article wil help you get a flavour of what is to come.
I recent signed up for a Mosso account account [...]
In March 2003, social psychologist Richard Nisbett published his groundbreaking book “The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently…and Why“, which challenged the received wisdom that all human groups perceive and reason in the same way. He came to the conclusion, based mostly on observation and social psychology studies, that Asians and Westerners
“Have [...]
Foreign Affairs - Us and Them - Jerry Z. Muller
Americans generally belittle the role of ethnic nationalism in politics. But in fact, it corresponds to some enduring propensities of the human spirit, it is galvanized by modernization, and in one form or another, it will drive global politics for genera
(tags: ethnicity Europe migration ethics Kosovo [...]