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LifestreamThe latest official half-yearly figures found the nation’s prison and jail population at 2,131,180 in the middle of last year, an increase of 2.3 percent over 2003.
The United States has incarcerated 726 people per 100,000 of its population, seven to 10 times as many as most other democracies. The rate for England is 142 per [...]
Archive for April, 2005
Three American police officers who were caught on video handcuffing a disruptive five-year-old at her nursery school are under investigation.
A video camera running during a classroom self-improvement exercise last month caught images of the girl climbing on a table and punching an assistant principal before police were called to Fairmount Park Elementary in St Petersburg, [...]
This was actually front page news for a while in Sweden. Now it has even reached Slate. This story just picks up more speed as it spins.
The question is if the Centre Against Racism has in fact got more important issues to deal with than this ice cream.
It has nevertheless spurred a series of parodies [...]
Never really liked the first Empire Earth game for some reason. But here we go again. After having played it I can at least say that it’s better this time around.
Empire Earth 2 will build upon the success of its predecessor by adding unique units, powers, leaders, and inherent bonuses to all of the game’s [...]
Guild Wars is gold and on the verge of launching.
Guild Wars takes the best elements of today’s massively multiplayer online games and combines them with a new mission-based design that eliminates the tedium of those games. You can meet new friends in towns or outposts, form a party, and then go tackle a quest together. [...]
Via Sabbah’s Blog.
Kids with Cameras is a non-profit organization that teaches the art of photography to marginalized children in communities around the world. We use photography to capture the imaginations of children, to empower them, building confidence, self-esteem and hope. We share their vision and voices with the world through exhibitions, books, websites and film. [...]
Via Slashdot …
Do you want a seven-day weather forecast for your ZIP code? Or hour-by-hour predictions of the temperature, wind speed, humidity and chance of rain? Or weather data beamed to your cellphone?
That information is available for free from the National Weather Service.
But under a bill pending in the U.S. Senate, it might all disappear.
The [...]
India is fast turning into one of the world’s development powerhouses, and they’re getting there by challenging the idea that they should have western-style copyright and patent rules (the US spent its first century as a “pirate nation” that didn’t honor foreign copyrights and patents). This marks a decisive moment in Indian history: the US, [...]
Just something worth making a note of.
The main factor in price disparities between countries is government policy, according to AirInc, a company that tracks the cost of living in various places around the world. Many European nations tax gasoline heavily, with taxes making up as much as 75 percent of the cost of a gallon [...]
Cory over at BoingBoing comments on the new US Family Copyright Bill, which imo represents in a nutshell what is wrong with America, both corporately and socially.
The House just passed the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act, which is a classic DC compromise bill: on the one hand, it panders to the Hollywood filmocrats by promising [...]
