US elections: the world-wide vote. "In November 2004, U.S. citizens will elect their new President. The outcome of these elections directly influences the lives of citizens around the world.
Theworldvotes.org seeks to apply new technologies to provide citizens around the world with a voice in matters that affects us all.
Ensure that your voice is heard by registering electronically and add momentum to a worldwide drive to establish global democracy."
Noble sentiments, but isn't this an admission of submission to the empire? A surrender of sovereignty? A call for
a new Caracalla's edict? Is this a good idea both for the US and the "rest of the world"?
posted by talos
on Jan 30, 2004 -
31 comments
An attempt by developing countries to put management of the
Internet under United Nations auspices is likely to be shelved at next month's world information summit in Geneva -
but the issue is now firmly on the international agenda.
posted by Mick
on Nov 10, 2003 -
14 comments
The Elliot Avedon Museum and Archive of Games. Board games from a thirteenth-century 'Book of Games',
Inuit games,
card games,
row games,
puzzles,
ethnographical papers on games, etc.
A different kind of game at
Streetplay -
stickball,
hopscotch,
galleries, and
street games worldwide.
posted by plep
on Jul 16, 2003 -
2 comments
Bosnia. Here's a news story which has received precisely no attention over the last few days. We should all be joyful that international justice, still in its infancy, helped along by
this man amongst others, has led Milosevic to trial.
posted by Pretty_Generic
on Apr 3, 2003 -
12 comments
As usual, when it's the U.S. turn, they play by different rules How come Russian and Scandinavian hackers can be charged under U.S. law for activities done in their home countries, yet when an American company gets a very reasonable request (IP tracking that it is done for web banners anyway) from a judge overseas, the U.S. grabs the free speech / local law argument.
posted by magullo
on Nov 8, 2001 -
23 comments
Isolationist information and international ignorance -- Whenever I visited my sister in Hong Kong over the past five years, I was always impressed with how much I didn't know about what was going on in the world. This link is a commentary on the feedback to an interview with a CNN Afganistan correspondent who said something similar, and got lambasted for it. Maybe if something good comes out of 9/11, it'll be a shift from celebrity news to real news. Ignorance can be dangerous.
posted by fpatrick
on Sep 24, 2001 -
13 comments
Software Libre! Local and national governments around the world are legislating in favor of open source, in a challenge to US corporate (read Microsoft) dominance. A liberating movement, or too much government intrusion?
posted by liam
on Aug 29, 2001 -
11 comments
The Hindu nationalist group Bajrang Dal name a puppy George Bush. This isn't meant to be a complimentary act... it's in reaction to their discovery that the Bushes' cat's name is India (short for India Ink). They've taken this as an insult to the nation, and have retaliated with the puppy.
I'm kind of curious about what this tells about Indian naming practices and significances, as compared to those in the US. Could someone more familiar with Hindu/Indian culture please enlighten me as to why they'd feel so insulted?
posted by jason
on Jul 26, 2001 -
36 comments
Xenoblogs I got a bit tired of the Amerikanski domination of Weblogging (
not that I don't love you all!), so I've started a compendium of blogs maintained outside the USA, which I've given the snappy name
Xenoblogs. The current list is based, with permission, on a well-known
geographical map of worldwide blogs. Additions welcome.
posted by joeclark
on Feb 21, 2000 -
1 comment
