19 December 2006

Stories from 19 December 2006

Bermuda: Premier's Dudley Eve Cup

The Bermuda Football Association's decision to have the Government sponsor a well-loved annual tournament, has apparently gone hand in hand with renaming it in honour of the island's Premier –...

19 December 2006

Aruba: Thank you, Time Magazine!

On being nominated Time Magazine's Person of the Year, Arubagirl writes: “Blogging isn't going to replace mainstream media anytime soon. What it is doing right now, and that is hugely...

19 December 2006

Ukraine: Brezhnev's 100th Birthday

Carpetblogger marks Leonid Brezhnev's 100th birthday with a Brezhnev joke: “Stalin, Krushchev and Brezhnev were riding on a train. The train comes to a halt in the middle of nowhere....

19 December 2006

Russia: “Chess Revolution”

Very Russian writes about what could have been Russia's “Chess Revolution”: “This is beginning, just slightly, to look like what’s been the Kremlin’s worst nightmare since the Orange Revolution.” Sean's...

19 December 2006

South Africa: local talent

Chillibean is blown away by South Africa's local talent, “This is yet another example of local talent that is easily as good as or even better than web design talent...

19 December 2006

Puerto Rico: Critical Mass

“What do We call the moment in which an active mass becomes inert because its size is no longer enough to sustain action/reaction?” Gil the Jenius explores the concept of...

19 December 2006

Costa Rica: Island Fraud

Uri Ridelma clarifies that Costa Rica's Punta Piedra Island, which has supposedly been sold by a company called Private Islands Online for the price of $1.5 million and is being...

19 December 2006