1 month ago
deusx : Jonathan Freedland: The world's verdict will be harsh if the US rejects the man it yearns for | Comment is free | The Guardian - "Of course I know that even to mention Obama's support around the world is to hurt him. Incredibly, that large Berlin crowd damaged Obama at home, branding him the "candidate of Europe" and making him seem less of a patriotic American.
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3 month ago
Richard Rutter : World clock meeting planner - Handy for schedule meetings with clients spread around the world.
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philgyford : World Clock - Statistics (based on estimates) updating in real time about deaths, diseases, disasters, etc globally.
fastclemmy : worldclock.swf - worldclock.swf by fastclemmy & 5 other(s) The world, in realtime hotlinks clock world stats Copy | React (0)
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17 month ago
adamrg : The Continuous Environmental Scan - Where Do You Get All Your Ideas?
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18 month ago
adamrg : Walmart Map - I'd like to see a US states breakdown. Maybe red states vs. blue states.
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18 month ago
adamrg : Gapminder - Tools - I'm going to use these if I ever have a current world issues class. *crosses fingers*
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20 month ago
deusx : Priests to purify site after Bush visit - Yahoo! News - "Mayan priests will purify a sacred archaeological site to eliminate "bad spirits" after President Bush visits next week, an official with close ties to the group said Thursday."
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deusx : Islam gets concessions; infidels get conquered - Los Angeles Times - "By criticizing itself, apologizing and offering concessions — all things the Islamic world has yet to do — the West reaffirms that Islam has a privileged status in the world. "
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23 month ago
philgyford : World Map - countries of the world - Educational map game (my geography is terrible). (via Haddock)
plasticbag : Identify the countries of the world in a big Flash World Map Game! - I got 36. I can't tell if that's good or not. I suspect it's not the greatest.
jkottke : Test: how well can you pick out countries on a map of the world? - Test yourself: how well can you pick out countries on a map of the world? I got a 59 my first time through...better than I thought I would do. (via plasticbag) [via]
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23 month ago
philgyford : Geosense: an online world geography game - What it says. Good one, you can play against others (or click 'Visit' then 'Play alone'). (via Haddock)
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23 month ago
philgyford : World Geography Quizzes - Hundreds of Map Games - Loads of very good educational map games for dumbos like me. (via Haddock)
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23 month ago
deusx : Al Jazeera English - Kim to lose iPod privileges - "Kim Jong-il is to have his access to iPods and other desirable gadgets cut off as part of US efforts to target sanctions directly at the North Korean leader and his power base."
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25 month ago
plasticbag : Breathing Earth - I'm not normally one for large Flash visualisations, but this representation of people being born, dying and the different countries of the world expelling CO2 is quite extraordinarily beautiful and informative...
jkottke : Breathing Earth is a map of the earth that shows, in realtime, births, deaths, and carbon dioxide consumption of the world's countries - Breathing Earth is a map of the earth that shows, in realtime, births, deaths, and carbon dioxide consumption of the world's countries. Mesmerizing to watch. (via snarkmarket) [via]
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28 month ago
philgyford : Where the Hell is Matt? - Pick-you-up, swing-you-around uplifting, brilliant, simple genius. Would be 33% even better without the sponsor's logo at the end. (via Haddock)
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29 month ago
philgyford : Worldmapper: The world as you've never seen it before - A big collection of world maps with countries resized according to different kinds of statistics. (via Boing Boing)
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31 month ago
deusx : US considers use of nuclear weapons against Iran - Yahoo! News - I cannot come close to coherently expressing the rage and anger this produces in me. Impeach this fucking President.
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34 month ago
ricmac : One Billion Internet Users (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) - "By 2015, Americans will be less than 15% of Internet users and will likely account for about one-third its value (Americans typically spend more than other users)."
plasticbag : One Billion Internet Users (from Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) - "Some time in 2005, we quietly passed a dramatic milestone in Internet history: the one-billionth user went online. Because we have no central register of Internet users, we don't know who that user was, or when he or she first logged on. Statistically, w
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36 month ago
deusx : ABC News: Peres: Iran Should Be Expelled From U.N. - Too bad we're all tied up in Iraq and have wasted all our credibility
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38 month ago
deusx : Invasion of the Isolationists - New York Times - "We do not know what outcome we will face in Iraq. We do know that four years after 9/11, our whole foreign policy seems destined to rise or fall on the outcome of a war only marginally related to the source of what befell us on that day. There was nothin
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40 month ago
deusx : Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | The struggle against terrorism cannot be won by military means - "The G8 must seize the opportunity to address the wider issues at the root of such atrocities"
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40 month ago
deusx : Blogcritics.org: We need leaders who prevent terrorism, not cause it - "There is a massive failure of leadership in the U.S. and U.K. When our people die, what we get from blowhards Bush and Blair is nothing but therapy..."
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41 month ago
plasticbag : Brian Walden talks about "the West" as a term that emerged in response to Communism, and suggests that without that spectre the term will soon become meaningless - Nice link found via Mr Webb which articulates nicely the emerging differences and conflicts between the major nations of the Western World
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43 month ago
deusx : Fanatical Apathy: The Past Two Weeks of TV News
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46 month ago
Ethan Marcotte : US has officially lost the moral high ground - Seeing your country's name up next to the phrase "erodes human rights" isn't a good thing.
deusx : BBC NEWS | World | Americas | US 'erodes' global human rights - "A leading human rights group has criticised the US over the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal and the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay"
plasticbag : Human Rights Watch takes US to task for damaging the worldwide fight for human rights - "Governments facing human rights pressure from the United States now find it easy to turn the tables," said Mr Roth. "Washington can't very well uphold principles that it violates itself."
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48 month ago
plasticbag : Population boom set to stabilise at 9bn by 2300 - "Fears that the human race may drive itself to extinction through over-population are challenged by new United Nations figures suggesting an eventual equilibrium as people in poorer countries come to understand the need for smaller families."
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