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Archive for the 'Politics' Category
Military Commissions Act: Yay, Nay who voted what?
Those of you American citizens that would like to know who is so freely giving away your civil rights should check the BORDC website. Currently only the Senate voting record is online but the house voting from yesterday should be available soon. More on the Military Commissions Act of 2006: UK’s highly popular website The [...]
The Economist: On issues with US voting machines
In his last edition top European business and political magazine The Economist has an interesting brief article on US voting machines.Crash and re-boot, that’s how the article is titled, is looking into how the wrong kind of voting machines could bring chaos to the mid-term elections. Even the Economist that rarely is using stronger wording [...]
China: Censors open some access to Wikipedia (Access chart)
After having blocked access to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia for almost a year completely, China has now started to open up some parts of it. With the help of bloggers and Wikipedians across China Andrew Lih has created a chart of Wikipedia reachability from within China. The English language version (en.wp) is now widely accessible [...]
Full length (updated: was) online: Who killed the Electric Car?
Those of us that did not get a chance to watch Chris Pane’s documentary “Who killed the Electric Car?” when it was released during June 2006 now, thanks to Google Video, got a chance to watch it in full length from our computers. Wikipedia and IMDb both provide additional information on the movie. We have [...]
Singapore plans free wireless Internet
From January next year, Singaporeans will get to enjoy free wireless Internet in public areas for two years. The government hopes this will grow the broadband market from the current 50,000 users to about 250,000 users in two years. Three operators – iCELL network, QMax Communications and SingTel will participate in this government and industry [...]
Animated Map: Imperial History of the Middle East
Did you ever wanted to know who has controlled the Middle East over the course of history? Maps of War has created an Flash animated map that let you flip through 5000 years of history in less then 2 minutes.It shows you how over time empires have come and gone together with their reach. And [...]
