Some tidbits: Just saw the movie The Butterfly Effect, and I quite liked it. I’ve seen a few other movies where they use “innovative” (maybe it once was) techniques of jumping to and from in times (Memento comes to mind as a very good example), others were characters struggle with loss of memory, alternate dimensions, [...]

The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh is an amazing book, and highly recommended. I picked it up on the airport, since I knew Ghosh from his In an Antique Land, which we read in anthropology. I liked that book, although I was somewhat sceptical to it’s value as an ethnography (which was why we read [...]

I have been very fascinated by the spread of peaceful revolutions around the world during the last two years – starting with the velvet revolution in Georgia a bit over two years ago, the Orange revolution in Ukraine about half a year ago, the Cedar revolution in Lebanon some months ago and the Pink revolution [...]