When Education Becomes Abuse
As a mathsphobe, the following brings back memories of the seedlings of numerical terror being sown: It is beyond deplorable …
Monthly Archives: January 2011
Net Study of Lebanon
An interesting titbit: IPSOS study on internet users in Lebanon, here.
Tunisian Solidarity? Not in the West Bank
Mention ‘resistance’ in the context of the Arab world and the predominant result will be ‘Palestine’. Which makes the news …
Owning the Night: Nature’s Last Patriarchal Frontier
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream …
Best of the Rest: A History of Silvio Berlusconi’s Sex-Scandal Sketchiness
Because if we’re honest, it’s been hard to keep up with the septugenarian Prime minister. Mercifully, Jezebel have provided a …
The Christian Gene
And now for something light-hearted from CNNN - a pithy reverse-report on the discovery of ‘the Christian gene’ by gay scientists at the …
US “Worried” by Tunisian Internet Censorship
But perhaps not as worried as it is about the same thing happening in Iran, because Tunisia is an ally …
Tunisian Society: The Mouse That Roared
Ben Ali’s ire knows no bounds. It is not enough to continue the senseless persecution of bloggers, nor turn a …
Tunisian Blogger Arrested
A quick post from the North-bound train: blogger Slim Amamou has been arrested. As one of the country’s pioneering bloggers, …
