AfricanArguments.org is a hell of a blog. How people in southern Sudan get to be Dinka, or Nuer, or whatever. You can be either, and which you pick depends on political expediency, but it helps to be posh. How’s Morgan Tsvangirai getting on in Zimbabwe? Not so well, and it may be for the best…
Read More Stuff to read: AfricaLook what our reader Dan O’Huiginn is up to! I’ve always thought a great extension for DocumentCloud would be a plugin that generates a concordance of the documents, as it still strikes me as a big heavy way of just dumping out a lot of scanned-jpeg PDFs, which is what most people do with it.
Read More Readers.File under “Really Strange”: Southern Californian gangsters turn up fighting for Assad in Syria (from Borderland Beat of course). The explanation seems to be that if you’re an Armenian or indeed Syrian immigrant in LA, you’re considered Latino for purposes of street politics, and of course Armenians do have a dog in the fight. Here’s…
Read More LinksThis post by an American sociology prof about going to Soviet summer camp is so sweet it seems harsh and rude to point out that he is completely wrong about this: I would love for the major players in the Crimean conflict to take a short bus trip over to Artek and spend a week…
Read More Awww.I just noticed from my Firefox crash log (about:crashes) that it crashed seven times on the 16th of October, 2013, of which four occurred between 1320 and 1420. I may have to revise my opinion of my own ability to manage anger, as nobody seems to have been hurt. I think it may be this…
Read More Crashy, the crash app, is crashing!Owen Jones says Abolish the Met! This reminds me that of course, we did abolish a British police force within the last 15 years, the one with the funny hats and head constables. We also merged the Scottish ones into a single force. The PSNI does actually seem to be an improvement over the RUC,…
Read More Come to think of it, we abolished the RUCSomething we’ve needed for a while: a good hard stomp on the knuckles of all this MAGIC FACEBOOK DRONEZ FOR AFRICA nonsense. Provided. I especially like the point that in fact, mobile operators are building 3G coverage in these places right now using the exciting new technology of sticking the antenna on a pole. A…
Read More Ladies and gentlemen, we are floating in moneyBeing a Salmagundi from the Talking-Pointes of the late Sieur Davide du Camerone, Gentleman of the Privy and Counsellier upon the Fourth Estate to his most Catholic Majesty, the late King Louis XVI An unexpectedly large forecast error in the Budget leads Finance Minister Necker to call an emergency Estates-General: We’re all in this together.…
Read More Dave from PR in the French RevolutionA really intelligent blog contribution from someone who is a weird kind of Tory-Lib Dem hybrid as far as I can make out. Here goes: I was always under the impression the intention of matching 15% of US commitment in order to earn Framework Nation Status with the command input that entails. If we take…
Read More Quality commentSomewhere between Thursday and Saturday, Bob Crow appeared on one of the TV news channels in an interview in which he was pictured in a Bradley Wiggins x Fred Perry shirt, nearly Yves Klein blue, and his expensive tan, in front of a massive parliamentary-looking bookcase. I am trying to find a screengrab in order…
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