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I am reading about this ferry sinking off the coast of Egypt…just terrible. I hope that there are more survivors than the media indicates now.

This is precious: Saudi mobile carriers ban SMS voting for Arab reality show Funny enough, I’ve actually watched this show at the Egyptian cafe around the block from me! (Haven’t voted, though maybe I should…)

Talk about outrageous: “International condemnation has greeted comments by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the Nazi Holocaust was “a myth.” The level of ignorance and hatred that passes for leadership in this world is as staggering today as ever…

Somehow this came up at work…I had to put it online. It’s time to rediscover the wonderful world of trebuchets. Forget fads of the 90s, 80s, or 70s–medieval is in and hip as ever! Everyone needs medieval weaponry this winter!…

According to an article in the New York Times, “former FEMA Director Michael Brown, heavily criticized for his agency’s slow response to Hurricane Katrina, is starting a disaster preparedness consulting firm to help clients avoid the sort of errors that…

This is good: CNN reports that Kazakhstan (or, correctly, the Foriegn Ministry) has threatened to sue Ali G’s Sacha Baron Cohen for his Borat character. Borat is Cohen’s bumpkin Kazakh personality, made famous from the Ali G show. So this…

Way to go Astros! Congrats on your first ever trip to the World Series!

Whats up with the monster hurricanes this year? Perhaps they’re part of a weather axis of evil?

In an article in today’s New York times entitled Top Graduates Line Up to Teach to the Poor, we learn what so many young college grads like me know already–that teaching after college has become an ever more popular thing…