http://www.metafilter.com/tags/liberatedwhitehorse Posts tagged with 'liberatedwhitehorse' at MetaFilter. Tue, 14 Mar 2006 08:41:36 -0800 Tue, 14 Mar 2006 08:41:36 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/50031/The%2Dhorse%2Dof%2Dfreedom <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4800202.stm">Venezuela gets a controversal new flag and seal.</a> In the <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/03/14/wvenez14.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/03/14/ixworld.html">words </a>of Chavez: <em>"The <a href="http://images.vector-images.com/117/venezuela.gif">white horse</a> is now liberated, free, vigorous, trotting toward the left, representing the return of Bolivar and his dream. Long live the fatherland!"</em> Of course, national flag controversies are nothing new, for example, in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Iraq">Iraq</a>, the <a href="http://mshistory.k12.ms.us/features/feature2/histconflag.html">Confederate States</a>, <a href="http://fotw.vexillum.com/flags/mk-1992.html">Macedonia</a>, and <a href="http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-73-80/politics_economy/canada_flag/">Canada</a>. If you want to stay current, there is <a href="http://www.flagwire.com/">Flagwire</a>, a site devoted only to flag news, and the extremely cool <a href="http://www.37.co.yu/fi/">flag identifier</a>, for those times when you don't know which country you are in. tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.50031 Tue, 14 Mar 2006 08:41:36 -0800 flags liberatedwhitehorse venezuela vexology blahblahblah