Stories about Ideas from September, 2007
Bermuda: Cause and Effect
IMHO.bm thinks that fixing the problems with Bermuda's youth requires a return to family values.
Trinidad & Tobago: Hail to the $100 Laptop
Seldo.Weblog reviews the $100 laptop: “This feels like the real deal.”
Ramadaning in Kuwait
Ramadan, food and shopping were top priorities among Kuwaiti bloggers last week. Abdullatif AlOmar takes us on a tour of Kuwaiti blogs which include a shopping trip at a hypermarket where even the shampoo looks interesting when you are fasting!
South Korea: History of Nationalism
K. M. Lawson from froginawell discusses an article written by Korean scholar on the history and development of Korean nationalism.
St. Vincent & the Grenadines: Healthy Living
“Alarmed by the rising rates of non communicable diseases in the Caribbean the Heads of Govermnents recently held a summit dedicated to addressing the issue”: Abeni puts in her two...
Jamaica: Nobel Prize Picks
“It goes without saying that the list of writers that haven’t won will always be more impressive than those who have, but that’s matter more of volume than taste”: Marlon...
Jamaica: Plant Wisdom
“In this lifetime, she has a lot to teach me”: Geoffrey Philp is looking forward to lessons from his favourite plant.
Russia: Conference on Renewable Energy Sources
Web 2.0. is finally coming to the Balkans: SeminarskiRad.com, a portal based on the share principle and offering free resources to Serbian students, has become really popular very quickly. A few days ago, the portal's blog supplement opened on Blogger, dedicated to the topics relevant to Serbia's youth. The first post is a report from a recent Moscow conference on renewable energy, whose aim was to educate young scientists in order to make this planet greener.
Lebanon: Language Differentiating Islamic Movements
Bech raises this question among others: “Is there something that differentiates Islamic movements from other movements?“ And he answers, tentatively: “The difference is in the language used as representative of...
Lebanon: Politically Apathetic
I am politically apathetic.I prefer this to being engaged in a political party whose leaders will deceive me, double-cross their ideals and sell their martyrs to the highest bidder… declares...
Lebanon: Calling for the boycott of a book
Arch.Memory at Lebanese Blogger Forum is calling for the boycott of the bestselling book “1000 Places To See Before You Die” because it has a “gaping omission that is simply...
Lebanon: Assassination Foreseen
“‘Something big will happen after Ramadan.’ ‘People will start fighting outside of Beirut.’ And the most popular one: ‘Someone will get killed during the presidential elections.’ [snip] Well, it seems...
Trinidad & Tobago: Flower Power
Now is Wow recalls her days of giving flowers to complete strangers…
Jamaica: Extravagant Books?
Jamaican Geoffrey Philp wonders whether V.S Naipaul was right about book-buying in the Caribbean being considered “an extravagance” and asks his readers to weigh in on the subject.
Japan: Axe Murder, School Days and a Nice Boat
In a bizarre twist of events, the shocking story of a girl who killed her father with an axe, believed to be motivated by her interest in manga, triggered TV networks to cancel airing of the final episode of School Days, a popular anime show. In its place, broadcasters aired a series of slow, meandering shots of castles, mountains, and... a nice boat. A meme was thus born that has spread like wildfire across bulletin boards and blogs, sparked various creative offshoots, and even inspired conspiracy theories.
Kuwait: Don't Open the Door for Strangers
Don't open your door for strangers, warns blogger Tooomz from Kuwait, who writes about a bizarre incident in which a woman called on her friend's house, pretended she was a...
Palestine: Following God's Rules
“When a man follows governmental rules and regulations; people call him a good citizen. He’s patriotic. When a man follows society’s rules and regulations; people call him civilized. When a...
Trinidad & Tobago: Film Festival Screens “A Winter Tale”
Elspeth at Now is Wow reviews Trinidad-born director Frances-Anne Solomon's film A Winter Tale.
Blogging in Neo Patwa
When bloggers want to reach a wider audience for their message, there is a strong incentive to post in English in order to cross the global language divide. Blogger Jens Wilkinson, however, offers another alternative in the form of a simple pidgin he created called Neo Patwa, a language that features regularly in his blog.
Trinidad & Tobago: We Are Open
“Claiming to ‘be open’ doesn't mean you are being open. Know your audience. Globalization is built on this principle, as is Free Software/Open Source and Open Content”: KnowProSE.com thinks it's...
Jamaica: Why Winkler Writes
“Personally, I think our triumph in having produced two Nobel laureates in literature owes something to the barrenness of our literary tradition”: Geoffrey Philp features Jamaican author Anthony C. Winkler...
