6bw, argentina, dubai, uk, lebanon

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  • Friday short fiction #3: China Reflected

    peteyoung Jan 21, 2011 10:21


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    shortform, china, uk, friday short fiction

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  • Mae fy hofrenfad yn llawn llyswennod.

    peteyoung Jun 02, 2010 11:35

    Here, for real. Priceless.

    fossil poetry, uk

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  • 2010 books

    peteyoung Jun 01, 2010 15:52


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    post-apocalypses, uk, science fiction, 2010 books

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  • Six Billion Worlds

    peteyoung Feb 26, 2010 00:02

  • Teenage girls' world of violent crime in Glasgow and London.
  • The Burmese hip hop movement aiming to overthrow the military government.
  • How microfinance is helping the world's poor.
  • Odd Box: roller-skating police, topless tobogganing and naked church services.

    burma, 6bw, uk

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  • Six Billion Worlds

    peteyoung Feb 24, 2010 07:58

  • 'Airbrush warnings' are being suggested by the UK's Royal College of Psychiatrists in the fight against anorexia.
  • "There's no longer a serious risk that southern Somalia could become a jihadi operational deployment facility. It already is."
  • China's internet censors are now on the run from a satirical lizard.
  • How Girl Guides across Africa are Read more... )

    child soldiers, china, 6bw, uk, somalia, dr congo

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  • Life imitates SF

    peteyoung Feb 18, 2010 08:17

  • Energy-efficient robot mules to be developed for military use.
  • The Strugatsky brothers' 1972 SF novel Roadside Picnic inspired Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 film Stalker, which then inspired the 2006 shooter video game 'S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl'. Recently the game has been played for real inside Chernobyl's exclusion zone (aka. The Zone of Read more... )

    usa, uk, life imitates sf, russia

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  • Six Billion Worlds

    peteyoung Feb 17, 2010 09:10

  • Taiwan's roadside 'betelnut girls'; there's also an extensive and informative Flickr photoset.
  • How life in a UK immigrant detention centre affects children.
  • The bizarre photographic challenges Russians set each other.
  • Brought to you without comment: 20 examples of male douchebags.

    taiwan, 6bw, emigrés, uk, russia

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  • Six Billion Worlds

    peteyoung Feb 15, 2010 17:52

  • People-trafficking Afghan children to the Aegean islands.
  • The Khmer riche: making a killing in Cambodia.
  • The failed immigrants held in UK detention centres for years.
  • Rare photos of Bhutan go on display in Delhi.
  • Audio slideshow: Life in Haiti's camps.
  • Odd Box: The man with 100+ vacuum cleaners, matchmaking supermarkets in China and Read more... )

    bhutan, usa, emigrés, uk, haiti, cambodia, greece

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