Del.icio.us links for May 28th through May 29th (I’m gonna get back to doing these weekly, Sunday-ish):
- Somalia: one week in hell – inside the city the world forgot – Somalia is the country the world forgot, a state so broken that scenes which would elsewhere dominate international news bulletins are barely noted on the foreign pages of major newspapers. Last year Foreign Policy magazine ranked Somalia as the state most at risk of total collapse, a verdict some might have considered flattering.
Tags: somalia africa islamism war civilwar violence states - Gulags, Nukes and a Water Slide: Citizen Spies Lift North Korea’s Veil – Mr. Melvin is at the center of a dozen or so citizen snoops who have spent the past two years filling in the blanks on the map of one of the world#039;s most secretive countries.
Tags: northkorea googleearth web2.0 citizeninvestigation privacy maps mapping - Richard Seymour « Interview « ReadySteadyBook – Amusing and illuminating interview with Richard Seymour (Lenin#039;s Tomb).
Tags: interview books politics humanitarianintervention richardseymour humour - Crazy Story Ideas, part 3 – Jetse De Vries explores another potentially rich vein for optimistic SF – Islam.
Tags: culture islam SF writing ideas - Batteries Feel Included: 309 – So, you’re in love with one of your friends, but she has a boyfriend and probably wouldn’t have sex with you anyway.
Tags: funny timetravel