FT.com
Orhan Pamuk, the Turkish novelist who a few months ago was prosecuted for allegedly being unpatriotic, won the Nobel Prize for literature on Thursday.The writer of Snow, My Name is Red and other acclaimed novels is the first Turk to win a Nobel Prize, and its award to such a politically-engaged writer is certain to […]
USATODAY
A 28-year-old American who has appeared in a series of propaganda videos linked to al-Qaeda was indicted Wednesday on terror-related charges, including treason. It marked the first time the U.S. government has brought such a treason case in more than 50 years, the Justice Department said.Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty said Adam Gadahn, introduced in […]
CNN
The government of Libya reached an agreement with an American nonprofit group to provide inexpensive laptop computers to all of its 1.2 million schoolchildren, The New York Times reported in Wednesday’s editions.The project, scheduled to be completed by June 2008, could make Libya the first nation to enable all school-age children to connect to the […]
The Roost explains how to see it. Way cool.
THE MESOPOTAMIAN
Alaa’s Third Law: The United States of America has become the Sole Super Power in the world of today; and has been cast into this role almost despite itself; its success has been so unbelievably complete, especially after the dramatic collapse of the Soviet block, that it finds itself charged with such global responsibility […]
TheStar.com
The former page, who agreed to discuss his relationship with Mark Foley with the Los Angeles Times on the condition he not be identified, said his electronic correspondence with the politician began after he finished the respected Capitol Hill page program for high school juniors. His sexual encounter was in the fall of 2000, he […]
Aslam Abdullah writes:
The leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, Abu Hamza al-Muhajer, recently issued a decree to its supporters: Kill at least one American in the next two weeks “using a sniper rifle, explosive or whatever the battle may require.”Well, Abu Hamza al-Muhajer, I am an American too. Count me as the one of those you […]
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Popular Mechanics
Lots of neat stuff. I think it pretty hard to look as the amazing things people are doing and still be pessimistic about the future.
(via Dean’s World)
