Poor George! guardian: The life and times of Lonesome George Lonesome George, the last of the Pinta island giant tortoises and a conservation icon, has died of unknown causes. He was believed to be about 100 years old. He was found in 1972 and become a symbol of the Galápagos Islands. His species helped Charles Darwin formulate his theory of evolution in the 19th century Photographs: Rodrigo Buendia/AFP/Getty Images & Reuters
Named Egypt’s Winner, Islamist Makes History Mohamed Morsi’s recognition as president handed the Muslim Brotherhood a new weapon in its struggle for power with Egypt’s ruling military council.
Syrian Freedom: Turkey: NATO should view #Syria as attacking it syrianfreedomls: By Selcan Hacaoglu ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey said Monday it would push NATO to consider Syria’s downing of a Turkish jet as an attack on the whole military alliance. The announcement came on the eve of a meeting by NATO’s governing body to discuss the incident.
akio: A group of unidentified Egyptian activists have set up a Facebook page and website called morsimeter.com to monitor the performance of Egypt’s president-elect Mohamed Morsi during his first 100 days in office. The page, which already has over 20,000 ‘likes’ on Facebook, will assess Morsi’s adherence to 64 promises he made during his election campaign in the fields of bread, traffic, security, fuel and health. Morsi vowed to implement the Muslim Brotherhood’s Renaissance Project if elected president. In his first post-victory speech on Sunday evening, Morsi said Egyptians should not obey him if he fails to stick to his campaign pledges….
Guillaume Musso: Afterwards I borrowed this one from a friend, who bought it in the first place because Guillaume Musso was advertised as the French Coelho. She actually got so blown away by him that she bought all his other books available in Hungarian. BTW, according to his website this one is translated to 23 languages, and English is not one of them. So, I’m sorry for keeping recommending books that many of you can’t read. Maybe I’ll do a post later promoting language learning. 🙂 So, what I was about to say is that for me Musso is not…
Well, of course it’s gonna be a few days ‘til I get to watch the pilot episode of The Newsroom. So, what better way to spend time in anticipation of a new round of Sorkin excellence than watching a few eps of The West Wing? 🙂 It was a rhetorical question, of course there’s none. 🙂 monkey-with-a-gun: I wasn’t supposed to take them both?
nobodyreallywantsus: Starting is the most difficult thing that there is. For me the difference between page two and page nothing is the difference between life and death. — Aaron Sorkin. (photographs by annie leibovitz for vanity fair, on the set of newsroom) So, finally the waiting is over. The Newsroom premiers tonight on HBO! Who’s gonna be watching?
But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. C.S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism (via beatricebaudelaires)
Kurt Waldheim: Un métier unique au monde Former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim’s narratives about the most unique job in the world. It is not his memoirs, this one was written while he was still acting Secretary General in 1977. It was not actually written by him, he was interviewed by Éric Rouleau in between travels and summits in the course of fifteen months due to the Secretary General’s busy schedule. This book is mostly about then current world affairs and how the UN dealt with them. What makes it interesting today is that most of these issues – Middle…
