US presidential speeches tag cloud

Very interesting Tag Cloud made by Chirag Mehta – it`s made out of 360 documents (1776-2006). You can even use the slider to change timeframe… pretty cool because you can see how US politics changed over time… Picture and links are found at Svakodnevnica blog which I reccomend to all Serbian speakers…

“Saddam Hussein sentenced to death”

cross-posted from nomadlife.org. ————————————— 2 days before the US elections, although the two are obviously unconnected and only a crazed conspiracy theorist would suggest otherwise….. BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — The Iraqi High Tribunal on Sunday sentenced a combative Saddam Hussein and two other defendants to death by hanging for a brutal crackdown in 1982 in …

Libya to buy 1.2 million laptops for school kids

NEW YORK – The government of Libya has reached an agreement with an American nonprofit group to provide inexpensive laptop computers for all of the nation’s 1.2 million schoolchildren, The New York Times reported Wednesday. With the project scheduled to be completed by June 2008, Libya could become the first nation in which all school-age …

WB World Development Report 2007

World Bank urges boost for young Developing countries must invest in young people, promoting education and health and developing essential skills, a major World Bank report says. The World Development Report says there are now a record 1.3 billion people aged 12-24 living around the world. Those numbers could create problems in many nations if …

this hurts…

this hurts……not only the act itself, but the crowd cheering… 🙁 this happened 2 years ago during March 17th pogrom in Kosovo…Countless number of churches has been and is still being destroyed… there were 2400 before the war… now… well… noone really knows…

Negotiations over Kosovo status have began…

…yesterday in Vienna…I`ll write more about the proposed solutions later, but until then, check out this BBC Belgrade video on “Why are Serbs reluctant to give up Kosovo”. It doesn`t cover all the reasons, nor it is expected from BBC though, but it is still a nice presentation of what Serbs think about it… Click …