Archive for September 11th, 2007
Reshuffle Rumours
If we (ie. the political reporters) can’t get an election, we can always resort to yakking about a government reshuffle.
Hint: The Social Affairs Minister was suddenly called back from a visit to Berlin to deal with “an emerging issue”. Possible surprise: Karen Jespersen as new Social Affairs Minister.
More fun: Where is Flemming?
Problem: Dismally low female quota in Danish government (only 6 out of 19 ministers are women. The Liberals never were the women’s party).
11 September
Oh, well. That date.In case you wonder, in 2001 I came from a meeting that afternoon and someone had turned on the TV in the office corridor. My immediate reaction was that this was a really bad joke. The proof of reality was when I discovered that the internet was completely blocked. No pages were accessible.At the risk of appearing, or trying to appear, profound, I have always found the poem Angst by Danish poet Tom Kristensen – written in the 1920s – a striking description of the terrorist mind. (Summary – the angst or anxiety felt by the narrator leads to fantasies about destruction).Robert Scoble reminds us that 2001 was a long time ago:
That was a world without Flickr. Without HD. Without YouTube. Without Ustream. Without Facebook. Without Google Reader. Without WordPress. Without Twitter. Without Del.icio.us. Without iPhone.
Also worth noting is that Swedish media is keeping the coverage of the fourth anniversary of the murder of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh very low key. Next year will be different, I guess.
links for 2007-09-11
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Problemet för folkpartiet är för det mesta inte bristen på socialliberalism i ställningstagandena, utan osäkerheten om socialliberalismen kan erbjuda något även i en visionär, framåtblickande debatt.
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I cannot, however, agree with one of his central claims, namely that the most serious economic research favors only mild remedies or sees the problem as only a moderate one.
Joe Zawinul
Joe Zawinul 1932-2007 – obituary at ORF.
War by PowerPoint
Mark Thoma notes that the US deploys PowerPoint in Iraq. (Source here).Discussion about military briefings at Edward Tufte’s homepage. Also discussion at Matthew Yglesias.