There is an island where all the inhabitants are either knights or knaves. Knights always tell the truth, and knaves always lie [PDF]. Can you tell which is which?
posted to MetaFilter by skoosh at 7:12 AM on March 15, 2005 (18 comments)

300 love letters to someone, to no one, to every one. [via fishbucket]
posted to MetaFilter by skoosh at 4:21 PM on August 3, 2004 (7 comments)

"We are singing for peace. We are against war. We are now singing against checkpoints," said Gabi Baramki, one of the founders of the Jerusalem Chorus. "It's a very sad Christmas." One in ten Palestinians is Christian, and Christians such as Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah are prominent among the voices calling for a campaign of nonviolent resistance to Israeli occupation.
posted to MetaFilter by skoosh at 3:03 AM on December 23, 2002 (10 comments)

Ten days ago in Yemen, a car carrying several men, including an American citizen, was blown up. They were deliberately killed by a missile fired from a CIA drone aircraft. The American is from Lackawanna, New York, about nine miles away from my house. When I first heard about this bombing, I thought of Orlando Letelier. Where are the lines now separating law enforcement and war, targeted strikes and murder?
posted to MetaFilter by skoosh at 5:23 PM on November 13, 2002 (38 comments)

A little beyond shredding documents... According to Human Rights Watch, the irrepressible Enron paid local police to beat, harass, and intimidate farmers and fishermen in India who opposed the building of their new power plant in their backyards. Does this, after Exxon-Mobil was taken to court for building torture centers in Indonesia, call into question the power of small states vis a vis humongous multinational corporations?
posted to MetaFilter by skoosh at 4:43 PM on January 26, 2002 (27 comments)