WorldForge, 50K: worldforge hits 50k… i worked on this a long long long time ago… it seems like. i don’t think any of my additions were added, but they are still going.

You Are Fish You have a well formed palate and a daring appetite. If it’s served to you, you’ll at least try it. People are pretty scared of your exotic ways. But once they get a taste of you, they’re addicted! What Kind of Meat Are You?

Geneva Conventions Now Universal: via Opinio Juris: This is a landmark month in the history of international law: with the accession of the Republic of Montenegro on August 2, the 1949 Geneva Conventions have become the first international treaty in modern history to achieve universal acceptance. The irony, of course, is that the US has […]

CPU ONLINE TRAINING TOOLKITS: Gender For Journalists: Setting the Scene: This ‘Gender for Journalists’ toolkit is based on those training workshops. It is designed to make you aware of the areas where women are disadvantaged and the role that men can play in bringing about change. I also give guidance on information sources and websites […]

Scaremongers dub RFID passports as potential bomb trigger: There’s nothing much special about RFID in this regard, other than some security “experts” trying to cash in on the hysteria. Check the video after the break, and judge for yourself whether or not RFID is going to be the hip-cool new detonation system of the decade. […]

Rising college fees will cost us in time – Yahoo! News: • Many students work, sometimes multiple jobs, thereby losing much of the texture of the college experience. Despite these well-documented struggles, tuition and fees keep rising. ——- i worked up to 4 jobs, working is good, it adds texture to the college experience. and […]

Monopoly Debit Card.: Still playing with Monopoly money? That’s so, 2005. Now, you can play Monopoly with debit cards: Game makers Parker have phased out the standard multi-coloured cash in a new version. ——- this is just so wrong…..

The CIA Cruelty Authorization Act of 2006: There have been several reports in recent days about drafts of the Bush Administration’s proposed amendments to the War Crimes Act. Now, Slate has published a version of those amendments that reportedly was “sent to Congress” last week. I’m informed that this proposal was, at most, shared with […]

Information Law Institute: Increasingly, who we are is represented by key bits of information scattered throughout the data-intensive, networked world. Online and off, these core identifiers mediate our sense of self, social interactions, movements through space, and access to goods and services. There is much at stake in designing systems of identification and identity management, […]