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The Greeks of Burundi (A Fistful of Euros)

There’s a Greek deli in central Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi. It’s hard to overstate how odd this is. Burundi is one of the poorest countries in the world. Bujumbura, on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, is… basic. The roads are mostly unp συνέχεια..

Mobi Dick: Sci-fi, the Internet and eBooks

In every book or film or piece of art from the last century that has depicted the future ... we usually fault it twice: first for the things that didn’t come true, and then for failing to see the myr συνέχεια..

Γη κι Ελευθερία—Αρουντάτι Ρόυ | The Guardian via ZComs

Διεκτραγώδηση των 'οραμάτων' των παλαβών για δέσιμο Ινδουϊστών και των αυτονομιστών μουσουλμάνων από την Ινδή διανοούμενη. συνέχεια..

Surprise Nuclear Plant in Kaliningrad

The decree caught analysts and environmentalists by surprise. The Kaliningrad plant is not mentioned in the federal plan for the power industry to 2020, developed by the Energy Ministry in 2007. συνέχεια..

Obituaries Yuri I. Nosenko, 81; KGB Agent Who Defected to the U.S.

When Mr. Nosenko defected in 1964, he provided the first information that Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, was not a Soviet agent. συνέχεια..

The Olympic Legacy (cosmix.org)

"It’s, therefore, unclear to me whether the Olympic facilities are really a burden or whether Athens is such a bad example upon which this conclusion is drawn." συνέχεια..

Largest internet security hole revealed… or what is BGP? (The Blog Herald)

Wired has the story of the latest major security hole on the internet, the routing protocol BGP: Two security researchers have demonstrated a new technique to stealthily intercept internet traffic on a scale previously presumed to be unavailable to a συνέχεια..

Google Gears Comes to Safari (The Blog Herald)

Google Gears, the extension that lets you use certain webapps offline, and speed up others, is finally coming to the Safari web browser. Unfortunately, it is just available for the OS X version of the browser at this time, but then again I’d reckon συνέχεια..

Gut Reactions (The Altantic)

"The termite’s stomach, of all things, has become the focus of large-scale scientific investigations. Could the same properties that make the termite such a costly pest help us solve global warming?" συνέχεια..

Boo! (Futility Closet)

"Spirit photographs" created by hoaxer William Hope in 1919. From left: Mr. and Mrs. Gibson with their deceased son; Mrs. Longcake with her dead sister-in-law; the Rev. Charles Tweedale and his wife, with her father. Arthur Conan Doyle (below, cente συνέχεια..

Wikipedia the nonprofit as PR for Wikia the commercial ad-farm (Infothought)

Another day, another gem of how Wikipedia is used to promote the digital-sharecropping of Wikia, this time from a sports site ESPN interview: [ESPN] What are some of the current trends along the Wikipedia online collaboration model, especially in sp συνέχεια..

Military Bases

Around the world, around the world, around...

(Ρίξτε και μια ματιά στα σχόλια περί Ελλάδας) συνέχεια..