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Helping Haiti and MSF

January 18, 2010

UPDATE: Via Alanna Shaikh, here’s a list of tips when donating to Haiti. I will never be able to understand or even process what people in Haiti are going through right now.  Every piece of news coming from there seems so crazy and far away and I seem stupider and stupider sitting on my couch and watching dead bodies being shoveled with a plow.  Everything people do for Haiti seems jaded and somehow very inefficient,  which is why I think ...

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Rory Stewart Walked Through Afghanistan

January 14, 2010

source. I just finished The Places in  Between, a book by Briton Rory Stewart about his walk through Afghanistan in the winter of 2002, right after the invasion of Afghanistan by the Northern Alliance and the capture of the Taliban. This is probably one of the most amazing things I have ever read about. Stewart, originally a career diplomat with the British Foreign Service, felt something missing in his life, quit his prominent career, and decided to walk around the ...

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Book Review: The Visual Miscellaneum

January 4, 2010

Note: Book for review kindly provided by HarperCollins. I first heard about this book from Nathan of Flowing Data (a data visualization blog I read semi-religiously) and I knew I had to read it.  I love data displayed in any form, and in fact, part of my job at work is helping people to visualize data in a way that makes sense to them (although I don’t get to play around with pretty graphics as much.) David writes a blog ...

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My unborn children are annoying me

September 30, 2009

You know how your mom always tells you, “You’ll know when you have kids someday,” whenever you do something annoying/lifeshattering to her?  My mom did the same thing when I was little.  And now, it’s coming back to haunt me.  Except, we don’t even have kids yet.  We don’t plan to have them for a couple (light)years, but they are already worrying the hell out of us. “What should we name our 2.33 kids*,” I begin to play the dangerous ...

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The Failed State Index: 2009

July 15, 2009

From Dunechaser on Flickr Nothing says, “You suck at life,” quite like landing at the top of the Failed States Index, compiled by Foreign Policy magazine and the Fund for Peace (which sounds like something George Costanza would have come up with), except for possibly joining a Ron Paul dating website. I was very interested in these rankings because A)I am immensely interested in international affairs and B) The most failed states are a former part of the Great USSR ...

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