Monika’s Pensieve

Apparently, both Abdullah and Karzai are saying the results so far have them in the lead. Here’s a short interview with Abdullah:

Little Kabul is an area in Fremont, California, which is known under that name because of its sizeable Afghan population. Below is a report on how Afghan women there feel about the elections.

Apparently, using trained rats is a much cheaper and faster way of de-mining fields *grin*

This is my last ENH film festival post, but I’m still reaaally behind with my film diary. My excuse is that I’m writing my BA project (again ;) ).
{FILM DIARY}
The Corporation (Canada, 2003)
Runtime: 145′
Director: Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott
Production House: Big Picture Media Corporation
Plot: (from imdb)
Documentary that looks at the concept of the corporation throughout recent [...]

Below is a news report on a theatre group in Belarus, which has to operate in secret because of the anti-government content in their plays.

This link is courtesy of Jodi over on facebook :) Really loved the article because it touches something I’m quite sensitive about.
It’s about Filament, a UK women’s magazine that is trying to publish some visual erotica for women:
Issue 1 featured three photo sets of men, none of whom removed their trousers. While some questioned whether [...]

Abdel Basset al-Megrahi is a Libyan man jailed for the 1998 airline bombing over the Scottish town of Lockerbie. His guilt or innocence has not been proved, it probably never will be proved because he has cancer and does not have much time left.
It’s a very interesting case because it happened way before 9/11 when [...]

There’s a lot of reports now about how ethnic divides may decide results (just saw one about the Hazara community, but thought it was badly done, so I’m not linking :]). Here’s one about how Karzai is set to get the Pashtun vote:

It amazes me how bad the trailers for the Twilight movies always end up being :] And who came up with the idea of doing trailers for the Twilight trailers? lol So far both of the New Moon trailers had 20 second clips released first and the full versions released a few days later. I [...]

A report about why election results are probably not going to be accurate…