- manjushra: Abbaye de Villers-la-Ville
- This is What Happens When You Give Thousands of Stickers to Thousands of Kids | Colossal
Amazing interactive art project!
- Free eBook: ‘Georgia on my Mind’ by Charles Sheffield
An excellent collection!
- 22 Free Hitchcock Movies Online
I did not know he had adapted ‘Juno and the Paycock’ for the big screen.
- Twitlines
Interesting visualisation of Twitter updates.
- Somalia meets over federal Constitution
“Members of the new federal parliament, expected to come into effect by June 2012, will be nominated by recognised traditional elders assisted by qualified civil society members, none of whom have any political aspirations.” So that’s all right then.
- Hating new year’s eve: a political analysis:
‘The manufactured celebration affirms our false understanding of time, that it is all about what is past and what lies ahead, when in fact life is “about” neither. Neither past nor future exists. There is of course only the present.’
- Polish MEPs leave ECR group
Cameron’s allies dwindling…
- End of the pro-democracy pretense – Salon.com
The last thing the U.S. government has wanted (or wants now) is actual democracy in the Arab world, in large part because democracy will enable the populations’ beliefs — driven by high levels of anti-American sentiment and opposition to Israeli actions – to be empowered rather than ignored.
- sammymorse: One cheer for Alasdair McDonnell
Northern Ireland plc has plenty of real economic and social problems to deal with without debating changes to the machinery of government that won’t take place any time soon. Alasdair was right to nix such a pointless debate. The SDLP needs to use its limited airtime on topics more likely to get more people to vote for and join the SDLP.
- Would you bet against Alex Salmond? | The Spectator
“while I wish him nothing but failure, I also regard him as one of the most formidable and effective politicians not just in Britain but Europe.”
- Eurosceptics gain MEPs | New Europe
Five new members for the EFD group.
- Rick Santorum: British Empire’s Decline Due To Growth Of Social Programs
I do hope he does well in Iowa.
- Travel Postcard: 48 hours in Brussels | Reuters
Actually also includes the Tintin museum in Louvain-la-Neuve (good call, IMO).
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