Miss Alli‘s recaplet is up for the second TAR episode, which includes many excellent things (both the mini-recap and the episode): The race moves to Argentina, and things kick into high gear. Marshall and Lance blow their brilliant plan to publicize their restaurant to their enormous advantage by muttering about “useless foreigners,” Charla and Mirna learn that prostitutes are busy, and Jim and Marsha learn that you should always do your own research. After an excellent detour involving mysterious tango dancers and horny dogs, Alison and Donny make the classic mistake of taking a bus instead of a taxi, and…
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The Banadir hospital in Mogadishu will provide free health care for women and children. It has been mostly financed by Somali businessmen. This is a second hospital in Mogadishu – the SOS hospital was the one that closed temporarily due to death threats against one of the doctors for performing a hysterectomy.
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Yesterday, a chance comment of mine after hearing a piece on :NPR gave David a mind virus for the day; he had Ravel’s “Bolero” stuck on repeat in his head. This morning, WXRT was doing their Friday preview for Saturday Morning Flashback with the time machine/wormhole schtick, and today the chosen year was 1984. The opening notes to Nena’s “99 Red Balloons” floated out of the car speakers, and on autopilot my hand reached out to turn the volume up. Good times. Tried to sing along, but it was the English version and I wanted to sing the chorus in…
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I’ve come late to the party, but finally started reading Adam Curry‘s weblog via Bloglines. Today, he announces a new community watch program, after noting that the Dutch government (he lives in Holland) still does not have a terror alert system complete with colors. Our own government provides this useful service; I’m thinking about installing the Muppets one so as to feel simultaneously paranoid and soothed. Anyway, Adam Curry’s idea was hatched on his morning radio show. And thus the Terror Information Tracking Service was born. You send an SMS (text message from GSM ) from your cellphone to our…