Entries from February 2006

Sunday, February 19th, 2006

Relational CIA World Factbook Browser

For someone that uses the CIA World Factbook regularly, this a pretty neat new way to do it:
http://der-mo.net/WINDS/
The cool part is that the interface allows for various relations, not just borders. Viewing border connections isn’t actually too useful, a normal geographical map which allows you to see the CIA Factbook information would be more [...]

Thursday, February 9th, 2006

Conan reveals casting of Nuclear Crisis movie

Last night

Saturday, February 4th, 2006

The new Rome meets the new barbarians – Nye

The New Rome Meets the New Barbarians
Joseph Nye – Dean of Kennedy School of Government
from the Economist (article)
Notes:

Bush Sr.: post 9/11: “We can’t go this alone”
Afghanistan may show that unilateralism works “just fine”
US not on the decline, but it’s not [...]

Saturday, February 4th, 2006

Hegemony on the Cheap – Dueck

Hegemony on the Cheap: Liberal Internationalism from Wilson to Bush
Colin Dueck
dueck.pdf
Notes

Most presidents have “liberal” perspective
Bush Foreign Policy influenced heavily by liberalism

(meanint democratic government + open markets)
not altruistic (helps US interists)
Woodrow Wilson

ends (goals) not backed up with means ($), traditional of US liberal policy
Goals of Roosevelt (UN)

5 major powers policing their sphere of influcence democratically*
*USSR no [...]

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

Pandora’s box was an iPod

So my friend Andy recently turned me on to a music streaming service called Pandora. I’ve recommended it to a few friends now, who have all found it rather interesting, and I thought I’d publish it here so that more people could get an idea of what it’s all about.
It’s a music streaming service, [...]

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

Leg no bendie

So, ever since High School (7-8 years ago), my knee has had a tendancy to randomly “pop” out of place. Not in any exciting way, either. My friend Tom has always had knee issues, and he got into a lot of trouble after smashing into someone at high speeds on top of [...]