Not really sure what to think about this. A Danish Muslim girls magazine is running a competition for “Miss Headscarf”. The winner will be featured as a cover girl.
On the one hand I am all for efforts to normalise headscarves and show tolerance for people’s choices of dress ( I mean where is the outrage [...]
“APML allows you to share your own personal Attention Profile in much the same way that OPML allows the exchange of reading lists between News Readers. The idea is to compress all forms of Attention Data into a portable file format containing a description of your ranked interests.” APML Website
“…consolidated, structured descriptions of people’s interests [...]
Ever wondered what all this fuss was about “Sub-prime” mortgages, “Credit Crisis”, “Housing Crisis” and dire threats of global financial meltdown?
Wonder no more.
The amazing “This American Life” has a superb program that really explains it in a very easy to understand way.
http://publicradioredux.com/episodes/2008/05/12/355-the-giant-pool-money
Get more at the Banksy website .
e’Lollipop [IMDB], one of South Africa’s most famous and successful films, has been re-released on DVD in advance of a sequel, e’Lollipop 2: Tsepo’s Story .
From the film website:
“First released in 1976, this extraordinary motion picture story of two South African children and their dog, Sugarball, touched the hearts of audiences around the world.
Despite the [...]
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South African journalist and pundit Ivo Vegter has rapidly become one of my favourite daily reads (his is one of the 30 surviving feeds in my “daily” list that once numbered 300 feeds).
One contemporary cultural phenomenon that he was dead right about is Facebook. In 2007, when Facebook was peaking, Ivo started [...]
Freddy Hagen is an extraordinarily talented Danish photographer.
Recently he returned from a trip to the Middle East and has uploaded some slide shows.
One in particular is a must see, Cairo Megacity. It is a slide show with music and both the music and photographs are utterly beautiful.
His other slide shows are also superb. Don’t miss [...]
Friday, February 22, 2008
The happy innocent days when Serbs thought that with Slobo gone, they would be treated fairly.
I have received a number of emails from friends curious to know the inside track on the Kosovo situation from their man on the ground in Serbia.
The problem is that when one is very close to the situation, and are [...]
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Thursday, February 7, 2008
“Tokyo traffic can be crazy. Perhaps not as crazy as it is frustrating, but it’s certainly a lot easier to get through the mess on a Monkey rather than in a car.
However, despite our gripes about traffic lights that seem very poorly timed, it turns out that the entire system is much more centralized [...]