NPR’s man in Basra sometimes emails the Washington-based news bureau funny details about life in his crazy city along with his stories about bombs, insurgents, and tragedy. His English is wobbly but energetic, and as commentator Corey Flintof notes, the multiple exclamation points are the Iraqi equivalent to “Ba-dum-pum! Laff nao plzzzz!” NPR : Real Funny Stories from My Crazy City (Part 2) Eating chickens against Islamic Sharia (instruction)After 2003, the Islamic instructions (Sharia) spread in bad methods and one of the Fatwas (decrees) was, “it is forbidden to eat imported chickens,” and most of radical extreme muslims believe on…
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Curse you, amiable and erudite Mr. Fry, for being an accomplished WordPress blogger at the first attempt. Now I’ll be forced to add your feed to my “must read” list. Stephen Fry » Blog Archive » Device and Desires My husband and his best friend are seriously into cell phone technology, and they constantly compare phones and features and contracts whenever either of them get a new phone. Stephen Fry’s comprehensive look at telephonic devices he has known, loved, or loathed beats my geeky hubby and his friend and their obsession all to bits and bytes. It’s an extremely detailed…
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Traverse Corporate Firewalls / Wired How To’s (tags: computers Firefox)
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It is a most unfortunate turn of phrase: Fort Worth wishes to re-align themselves as something called “Anglican Identity” rather than remaining a part of the Episcopal Church: Episcopal Life Online – DIOCESAN DIGEST [Episcopal News Service] The Standing Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth announced October 1 that it will ask its upcoming diocesan convention to “take the first step needed to dissociate itself from the General Convention of The Episcopal Church and to begin the process of affiliating with another Province of the worldwide Anglican Communion.” Really, if they’d be happier elsewhere, and if they have…
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UPDATE:On re-rereading this I realized that I came off like a churlish jerky girl with regards to the people of Burma and the heroic monks who are marching (and dying) for them and for a more democratic form of government. That wasn’t my intent. I’ve been moved by the photos people have posted on Flickr, in support of peace and justice in Burma, that have been showing up on my Google Flickr thingy. So I thought I’d better make things better. I happened to scan the recent White House press briefing, following up on something completely different noted by OneUtah:…