Monthly Archives: December 2008
links for 2008-12-30
FERRY TO GRIMSEY ISLAND ICELAND (tags: Ferry Grimsey iceland)
Dancing Lessons from God
My wonderful friend Anna is spending the month of January in Azerbaijan, organizing a conference for the NATO International School of Azerbaijan, an organization dedicated to research and education on integration and security issues. She is planning to blog her … Continue reading
Links for 2008-12-29
Study: 'Virginity pledges' are ineffective – Washington Post- msnbc.com Study after study has shown that abstinence only sex-education is a failure. Unfortunately, it's a failure with some potentially dangerous consequences, and yet proponents continue to block proper sex-ed in many … Continue reading
links for 2008-12-24
On Being a No-Name Blogger Using Her Real Name « Kate Harding’s Shapely Prose (tags: Blogs progressive culture writing sexism internet women)
There and Back Again
Whence Come We? What Are We? Whither Go We? – Paul Gauguin On January 16th, 2009, I’ll be flying from Boston, MA to Reykjavik, Iceland for nine days of adventure. Sadly, and perhaps surprisingly, with Canada notwithstanding1, this will be … Continue reading
Mugabe fiddles while Zimbabwe Burns
The BBC is reporting that 978 people are now dead of cholera in Zimbabwe, an increase of 25% over last week. It’s only a matter of time before this begins to destabilize the region. Earlier in the year, invoking R2P … Continue reading
links for 2008-12-07
Are you on catnip camera? (tags: photography cats)
links for 2008-12-03
Winter Time Cocktails – Hot Apple Pie- Forbes.com (tags: cocktails) "Prop 8 – The Musical" starring Jack Black, John C. Reilly, and many more… from FOD Team, Jack Black, Craig Robinson, John C Reilly, and Rashida Jones (tags: politics prop8 … Continue reading
Banning Cluster Munitions
On Wednesday, December 3, in Oslo, the Convention on Cluster Munitions will be signed, effectively banning the use, production, transfer, and stockpiling of cluster munitions and marking the culmination of nearly two years work between nearly 100 nations, civil society, … Continue reading
links for 2008-12-01
FT.com | Management Blog | Clock-watching bosses need to discover the Japanese concept of ‘ba’ (tags: ba management collaboration technology web2.0) StateStats (tags: Search Google Stats Information)
