April 2008
17 posts
Spring is in the air →
These past few months have been writing-free while plenty of premium links pile up over on my Tumblr site. But that’s about to change. After all, it’s springtime and there’s quite a bit happening on…
The “most requested feature of all time” →
These guys just made my day. 37signals is set to roll out replying to messages via email in Basecamp.
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March 2008
18 posts
Zimbabwe's Ahab →
A well-written article from the author of “When a Crocodile Eats the Sun - A Memoir of Africa,” this should make you sad for the people of Zimbabwe.
“We have been warned that if we vote Mugabe out, there will be war.”
– Villager in Masvingo province in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe forces ‘on full alert’
“Even if Mugabe only gets one vote, the tabulated results are in the box and he...”
– Andrew Moyse, who coordinates a project that monitors coverage in the Zimbabwe news media Hope and Fear for Zimbabwe Vote
“They have found evidence of dead people registered to vote including a former...”
– Remarkably unbelievable. And true. Zimbabwe election run-up ‘flawed’
Madrid announces plans to ban polluting cars from... →
"Rape Me, Rape Me" →
Violence has become so pervasive in South African schools that children as young as 7 play games such as “rape me, rape me,” where students simulate sexual attacks,” according to a chilling report issued Wednesday by the nation’s human rights commission.
This isn’t surprising.
Don't touch that paper →
Jail for defacer of Mugabe poster
God of War. Busted. →
“[H]e cited the committee’s own calculations from last fall that showed that the...”
– The $2 Trillion Nightmare
The God Particle →
Straight out of Dan Brown’s book Angels and Demons, this thing is friggen’ real. From this month’s National Geographic Magazine.