Entries Tagged as 'Int'l Relations'

Saturday, April 15th, 2006

Diplomats with Money

Well, for a while now I’ve been seeking out ways I can combine my IR degree with my technical experiance. I’ve had it said to me that corporations, especially highly globalized tech corporations, need diplomats just as much as governments do.
Today I read about how true that statement really is. Chinese President Hu Jintao’s [...]

Friday, April 14th, 2006

Comparing Prison Populations

An entry posted on Foreign Policy’s “Passport” blog yesterday cited the BBC’s in depth report on prison life. Specifically, a chart on this page.
I’m still reading the BBC’s articles on this topic, which are great, but what I have issue with is the tone of the comment on the Passport blog. To quote:
Seven [...]

Wednesday, April 12th, 2006

Fun Population Map

This site has a really neat graphical way of representing population and area sizes (based on cia world factbook). You can change a ton of different views and filters, and also view by continent. Pretty neat stuff.
The notes are also amusing, and underline the difficulties that map-makers run into, even if they [...]

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

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

Horray for Rabid Teachers

This is a response to a blog post located here. I randomly came across this article, which includes a rather bad recording of one of my teachers at SFSU this next semester.
I must say, it’s rather discouraging. The guy seems to be a rather rabidly liberal, believing that the sole reason why U.S. [...]