Vizualizing economic activity

From Yale via MR, here’s one of the coolest vizualizations of economic activity, a 3D flash file. Here’s more from the G-Econ project at Yale.

Democracy for sale

Will the Germans outdo the French?

Young, good-looking, and available for around 150 euros (£100), more than 300 would-be protesters are marketing themselves on a German rental website…

Book review mop-up

When I started this blog I had planned on posting reviews of all the books I was planning to read over the course of the year. I haven’t posted one for a while but that’s been more my laziness in writing reviews than in reading.

Interpreter of Maladies, by Jumpa Lahiri: A fun collection of short [...]

Back to Dhaka, Politics

The week-and-a-half of Delhi’s energetic bazaars, Goa’s sunny beaches and an arctic-like train trip to the Taj Mahal is over so tomorrow I head back to Bangladesh.
Outlooks for a near-future political stability in Bangladesh were grim when I left but seem to have grown a lot worse in the few days that I´ve been [...]

The French and protests

When I lived in Paris there seemed to be a protest for something (or perhaps anything) almost every week. Coming from Iceland where protests are rare it felt like the French had taken the idea to almost the level of a national sport. So, I couldn’t help but smile:
BBC:

French marchers say ‘non’ to 2007
Hundreds of [...]