Apr 13, 2012 | Campaigns, Non-Fiction |
Cameron’s Asian tour SIR – It was with sadness that I learnt of David Cameron’s visit to Indonesia this week to renew arms sales. I still bear scars and a permanent walking impairment as a result of an Indonesian bombing raid on my village using British-supplied Hawk...
Jan 28, 2012 | Non-Fiction |
Underlying the brain’s ability to learn reading lies its protean capacity to make new connections among structures and circuits originally devoted to other more basic brain processes that have enjoyed a longer existence in human evolution, such as vision and...
Oct 29, 2011 | Geekery, Non-Fiction |
UNICEF are rolling out an exciting ICT4D project in rural parts of Uganda. The project aims to give access to practical information to people living in remote parts of Uganda, where access would otherwise be extremely difficult. Like projects such as One Laptop Per...
Oct 16, 2011 | Geekery, Non-Fiction |
All Ice Cube puns aside, October 15th and 16th 2011 will certainly go down as the days the voices of the people were amplified. As I work in development, I’ve been really engaged with World Food Day this year. Even though it isn’t a big deal in the UK,...
Aug 29, 2011 | Campaigns, Geekery, Non-Fiction |
From Time magazine: Tim Parsonson, CEO of African data-center operator Teraco, says that in the past four years Africa’s Internet capacity soared from 340 gigabits to 34,000 gigabits per second while the cost of the Internet to its service providers plunged from...
Aug 10, 2011 | 2011, Non-Fiction, Toons |
You’re likely to have seen that the Sony DADC warehouse in Enfield was burnt down, with great losses to the independent labels that use Sony’s distribution channels. There is already a LabelLove campaign (including Twitter hashtag) that allows fans to...
