This morning (EST anyhow), Australia shocked New Zealand in the semi-finals. Australia go through to the finals next weekend against either France or England; the heavily-favoured All Blacks go home, losers again. Does NZ ever have trouble winning big games in the RWC.
Just noticed
that Wired News has a special section about E-voting and the issues that surround innovations in voting methods. A worthwhile read.
Guest writer Bob Harris
on the Tom Tomorrow weblog on the Rugby World Cup, currently heading into the Semi-Finals in Australia. “I only wish you all could have seen the South African side singing its anthem before each of its games. This was something beyond words for me: the entire team, multiple cultures, side by side, black and white — all belting out words of peace and freedom in four languages (Xhosa, Sesotho, Afrikaans, and English), merging multiple melodies and diverse histories into a single voice, sung with a pride and sincerity and optimism that brought me to tears, every time.”
The evidence is in:
Guinness is good for you. This morsel of good news came courtesy of the ever-sharp-eyed Blork, who, with me, has been known to have partaken in a Guinness (or two) on as many occasions as possible. But now it’s obviously not a question of wanting to, but of taking care of one’s health.
American Exceptionalism
is almost certainly at the root of many of the current differences between Europe and the US, related to the situation in Iraq but also in many other domains. An Economist article from this week’s edition delves into the question. The idea of “American exceptionalism,” for those that don’t know, dates back all the way to de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America.
There’s another very interesing discussion of this concept in the form of a transcript of the PBS show, Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg.
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