Or should that be children of the world connect (to each other) using your new - Nicholas Negroponte facilitated - 125 dollar laptop. This initiative to bring cheap and abundant computing and connectivity to the world’s children seems absolutely terrific. Obviously, and at one foul swoop, the global playing field is going to become a [...]
Review-essay in Haaretz on Raymond Aron and the war in Algeria. Very interesting. Via the Heab Heeb
This Slate dispatch about the Milosevic trial is very well written.
I saw a link to this german election blog a couple of months ago, but forgot to bookmark it, and have been trying to find it since then.
Almost the most interesting thing about it is how shockingly bad the interface is. Apparently someone at this institute built a primitive blog of his own rather tahn [...]
Ovi Magazine is odd but interesting. I’m not sure if either is related to its Finnish origins but international character. The Greek, the Brit, the Yank, the Brasilian, not one of them what you would expect. I’m strangely addicted.
Brad Plumer on the relation between the size of government and growth, and an irony.
Henry Farrell on why he’s more optimistic than he has been in a long time about the European experiment.
Laura Rozen prints native readers thoughts on the referendums in France and Belgium.
Eulogist on the EU and the constitution.
Col Lounsbury on why he’s [...]
I can’t believe it: “Belle de Jour” is still making waves in the conventional press. And in the Sunday Times Womens Section at that.
Crooked Timber’s Eszter Hargittai found a new paper by physicists about social networks and the Eurovision Song Contest and sulkingly remarks that a) CT was far ahead on the curve on this matter and that b)
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