148 - Oh, Inverted World « strange maps. I subscribe to the RSS for the strange maps site. Sometimes what they find is just weird, but others it is mind-bending, like this one.
Fun, and strange
July 15th, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: · international · weblogs
Animals on the Underground
May 28th, 2007 · No Comments
Absolutely amusing: animalsontheunderground.com
Tags: · international
Fantastic maps
March 31st, 2007 · No Comments
The Daily Mail has a feature on How the world really shapes up with images of maps where land mass of countries has been distorted to show things like population, alcohol consumption, or death by war or violence. (via Strange Maps)
Tags: · international
Al Jazeera on the Senate deadlock
February 18th, 2007 · No Comments
I always find it interesting to see how Al Jazeera covers U.S. news, especially when it concerns the Middle East. And sometimes the most interesting thing is to see just how neutral the story is. Al Jazeera:
The US senate has refused to consider a resolution denouncing George Bush’s Iraq troop increase that the House of [...]
Tags: · current affairs · international
My kind of bank
February 17th, 2007 · Comments Off
Timbuktu Chronicles, a “view of Africa and Africans with a focus on entrepreneurship, innovation, technology, practical remedies and other self sustaining activities” by Emeka Okafor, takes note of Community Seed Banks with links to fuller reports..
Tags: · international · plants · science
Wow
January 28th, 2007 · No Comments
Wow. Just wow. Andrew Sullivan has a YouTube video of a humvee driving in Bagdad. Wow: Andrew Sullivan | The Daily Dish: A Glimpse of Baghdad
Tags: · current affairs · international
Scary global warming animation
January 27th, 2007 · No Comments
Quicktime animation of glogal warming via Will Shetterly.
Tags: · current affairs · international · science
Reality hits reality TV
January 20th, 2007 · No Comments
BBC 4’s Big Brother program has recently created a furor over very ugly behavior. In her exit interview, ejected contestant Jade Goody has a revelation:
“I look like a complete and utter nasty small person - the sort of person I don’t like myself,” but continued: “I am not a racist and I sincerely, with my [...]
Tags: · current affairs · international · television
Tony Blair’s defeatist attitude
January 9th, 2007 · No Comments
The Guardian reports: Carry on flying, says Blair - science will save the planet
Tony Blair today wades into the growing controversy over how individuals can help to tackle global warming by declaring that he has no intention of abandoning long-haul holiday flights to reduce his carbon footprint.
Days after his environment minister branded Ryanair the “irresponsible [...]
Tags: · current affairs · international
