Links I found interesting for 24-03-2012

[nwhyte]

• The Way the Future Blogs: The Reunion at the Mile-High
  Alternate Asimov!
  (tags: sf )
• The settlement of Madagascar: Thirty lost souls | The Economist
  The thirty founding mothers of the Malagasy.
  (tags: migration )
• Bir Tawil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  The one part of Africa that no state claims as part of its territory.
  (tags: maps sudan )

Comments

[lexlingua]

Hell, I am all for the Human Genome Project, with respect to your article about Madagascar and its colonization by Asians. I am an Asian myself, so this was a surprise. Have you heard of the Kon Tiki voyage? Reminded of it by the Economist's article.
Thanks for the link!

[steepholm]

Bir Tawil sounds like the basis of a very good QI question!

[parrot_knight]

That's a tempting Eastercon programme...

...and while I was vaguely aware of the Hala'ib Triangle, its counterpart of Bir Tawil hadn't registered. More fascinating legacies of the colonial era!