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The Charms of Wikipedia: “By Nicholson Baker

Wikipedia: The Missing Manual
by John Broughton

Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It’s fact-encirclingly huge, and it’s idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking, and full of simmering controversies–and it’s free, and it’s fast. In a few seconds you can look up, for instance, ‘Diogenes of Sinope,’ or ‘turnip,’ or ‘Crazy Eddie,’ or ‘Bagoas,’ or ‘quadratic formula,’ or ‘Bristol Beaufighter,’ or ‘squeegee,’ or ‘Sanford B. Dole,’ and you’ll have knowledge you didn’t have before. It’s like some vast aerial city with people walking briskly to and fro on catwalks, carrying picnic baskets full of nutritious snacks.”

(Via The New York Review of Books.)

Tv-kanin raser mod Danmark | information.dk: Fredag 29. februar 2008

Dødstrusler mod en dansk tegner er et af samtaleemnerne pÃ¥ Hamas’ børne-tv pÃ¥ Gazastriben. Det er en hÃ¥rdtslÃ¥ende politisk kommentar til de unge seere som reaktion pÃ¥ genoptrykningen af Muhammed-tegningerne, der ogsÃ¥ vækker harme andre steder
27. februar 2008
Af: HANS HENRIK FAFNER

‘NÃ¥r jeg bliver martyr, kommer der en tiger i stedet,’ siger kaninen hen mod slutningen af udsendelsen.

(Via Information.)

Protester mod tv-station der ville dræbe tegner: “170.000 palæstinensere protesterer mod tv-stationen al-Aqsa, der i et børneprogram opfordrede til drab pÃ¥ dansk tegner. Tv-stationen beklager selv.”

(Via DR Nyheder Online – Alle nyheder.)

Drabstrusler i palæstinensisk børne-tv: “Tingene kom ud af kontrol, da en lyserød kanin i en palæstinensisk børneudsendelse opfordrede til drab pÃ¥ tegneren Kurt Westergaard.”

(Via Politiken.dk Seneste nyt.)

Cohen: The French, the Americans, and affairs of the heart: “The French now seem obsessed by their leaders’ love lives, the Americans not at all.”

(Via International Herald Tribune.)

Borgerlige gør op med egen retspolitik – Politiken.dk

Mandag 25. februar  kl. 08:01

(Via Politiken.dk)

Traité de Lisbonne : l’Union européenne à la recherche de son “George Washington”: “Le président stable du Conseil européen doit prendre ses
fonctions le 1er janvier 2009.”

(Via Le Monde.fr : International.)

Spending by Clinton Campaign Worries Supporters: “Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign finance report appeared to be a map of her management failings.”

(Via New York Times.)

Young and bored in small town U.S.? Try ‘looping’: “JENA, Louisiana (Reuters) – If you’re young and bored at night in a small town in the United States, you can always jump in the car, switch on the radio and go ‘looping.’

(Via Reuters: In Depth.)

Great Firewall of China Faces Online Rebels: “The Chinese government’s censorship of Web sites with no discernible political content has fostered a backlash.”

(Via New York Times.)