Overview - incumbent declares victory, opposition disagrees (Raila Odinga claims up to 300,000 vote inflation by Mwai Kibaki), and European electoral observers do not have faith in the declared result. 100+ people have died. Rumours of Luo targeting Kikuyu now. Armed police and paramilitaries are on the streets ( Read more... )

Flipping channels last night, I came upon, and became enthralled, by a rebroadcast (SFGTV) of a roundtable meeting my fair city's Mayor held on 13 December with a group of community newspaper journalists. It doesn't get more grassroots than that. Really amazing stuff, where the Mayor was addressing each of these communities' hot-button issues in a ( Read more... )

1. A question of railway investment in Eastern Europe.

2. Burning Man & the cash economy

3. Rove's retirement - merely the unleashed hellhound?

4. On Africa's development, op-ed by a couple of Peace Corps IT workers who spent time in Kenya. Fair points about internal development and avoiding hand-out dependence, but they also sidestep the ( Read more... )

Kenya's Malooned sounds promising.

1. Whoa! Parthenogenic sharks! Biology is weird.

1.1 EDIT: Plus from the Sci-Fi File - Radiation-metabolising fungi

What was that theory called, pansporia? My goodness, if something as complex as fungi can thrive on that, anything is possible through space.

2. More poor behaviour by UN peacekeepers in the Congo...rearmament, for gold ( Read more... )

1. Kenya: suspected source of recent crime wave, Simon Matheri, found & shot dead - we'll see if this leads to anything useful. Too bad the 200 armed police failed to complete an arrest. It's particularly poor that the rest of the gang were not swept up in the same violent raid.

2. Globalisation: world auto manufacturing history

3. Tea: Britney ( Read more... )

Thankfully this incident is not my parents.

A couple more added

A selection is available here.

1. Holy Atomic Tourism, Batman! ... actually, I'd quite like to check that out, when I return to one of my fav spots in the entire US of A.

2. Photovoltaics market in California

3. Ethanol's rise: feeding bellies or feeding engines? Personally, I think so long as trade barriers are keeping Brazilian sugar out, and dentists are busy with corn- ( Read more... )