Readers of my previous comment on Tariq Ramadan will no doubt have come away with the impression that I don’t much like Daniel Pipes. This is not an entirely accurate assessment of my opinon of him. I think Pipes is an unreconstructed bigot and xenophobic fanatic whose academic work fails to meet even [...]
Despite the recent hostage taking of French journalists in Iraq and the demand that the ban on the hijab be lifted as the price of their return, the French government is unsurprisingly still planning on implementing the law when school reopens this week. Killing French journalists in order to attack a French law - [...]
Hungary’s former sports minister is now prime minister. Should this sort of thing worry anyone?
Three Hungarians have forfeited medals in Athens because of doping - [hammer throw champion Adrian] Annus, discus gold medalist Robert Fazekas and weightlifter Ferenc Gyurkovics, who won a silver.
Also, Hungarian weightlifter Zoltan Kovacs finished last in the 105-kilogram class and was [...]
Well I can think of several reasons, and none of them particularly related to the lamentable lack of security at nuclear power stations that was recently revealed there.
One good reason to worry might be the use and abuse of economic statistics that goes on in the Japanese context. I don’t know whether it is the [...]
Just going back briefly to my Anyone Feel Like Hiking post - where I was speculating that the UK housing bubble might already have been effectively ‘burst’ by earlier interest rate rises which had still to work their way through the system - figures published yesterday by the British Bankers’ Association seem [...]
Applying Tobias’ methodology and the standings published today in a German newspaper, whose web site really could be better organized, we get the following line for the medal count:
USSR - Gold 28 - Silver 35 - Bronze 41
Not quite the dominance of the bad old days, but enough for second behind the equally imaginary EU [...]
If Bruce Sterling hasn’t spun your head yet with the Viridian Design Movement, you’re coming up on half a decade behind the curve. But don’t worry, we won’t tell.
And he’s cranked up the conceptual overdrive for this address to SIGGRAPH, the annual convention of computer graphics and design people.
Having conquered the world made of [...]
According to Abu Aardvark, Tariq Ramadan - a francophone Swiss Muslim who is usually cited as a particularly modernist and moderate European Muslim scholar - has been denied a visa to enter the US to take up a teaching posiiton at Notre Dame University. As I understand it, the visa had earlier been [...]
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