Google continues to take heat over its new uber-anti-privacy-architecture. Tts new Buzz application makes an important error in assuming that every link between nodes (email addresses) implies homophily, and that greater connectedness between nodes implies greater homophily. Not so, explains Fugitivus ever so patiently: I use my private Gmail account to email my boyfriend and […]
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Last week, Ban Ki-Moon made his standard plea for an Olympic Truce during the XXI Olympic Winter Games from Feb. 12 to Feb. 28 February and the X Winter Paralympic Games from March 12th to 21st. Thing
So “Google-Buzz” was inflicted upon the Gmail-user community over the past 36 hours and is still the number 2 trending Twitter topic. Already Google has been accused of plagiarizing Twitte
Chilling. Andrew Sullivan initially reported that the US media was completely ignoring this story, but that’s not true now. Quite a number of commentators have expressed outrage at the torture of a child, and the serviceman in question, Joshua Tabor, has been arrested. It’s a horrible way to treat a child. Interesting that this particular […]
Apparently depends on who you ask. My kids’ favorite: (Though, it did make me wonder: does Google really need to advertise?) Personally, I thought this one was pretty awesome, if only for the la
Nicholas Kristof is writing about Congo again this morning: It’s easy to wonder how world leaders, journalists, religious figures and ordinary citizens looked the other way while six million Jews we
Given that Rob has been ruminating lately about the US government’s defense strategy for twenty-first century wars, consider this set of interesting data on war casualties. A new report, out about a week ago from the Human Security Report Project argues that contrary to popular belief, we are living through perhaps the most bloodless period […]
Danny Kaplan at Foreign Policy is pointing out how the US lags behind other top-notch militaries like the IDF in its nascent, grudging willingness to allow gays and lesbians to serve openly. The Unite
Mark Leon Goldberg of UN Dispatch explains yesterday’s decision of the International Criminal Court’s Appeals Chamber to require the Pre-Trial Chamber to reconsider including the crime of
Why do repressive regimes sign the Torture Convention when they don’t plan to comply with it? At the Monkey Cage, Erik Voeten has a round-up of some conventional answers and calls attention to a novel explanation just out as a working paper from NYU. [cross-posted at Duck of Minerva]
To think about globalization, the information revolution and sovereignty, my World Politics students watched this popular video in class yesterday, a compilation of facts and statistics about our ever
The comments thread on this NPR story about aid distribution in Haiti is interesting. Relief organizations have begun distributing food through women on the assumption that it is likelier to trickle d