10 February 2010

Some perspective for those of you in Washington now: the weather right now in Verkhoyansk (55 below, as I write this). As a native of South Dakota, I never thought I’d see this place get a respectable blizzard.

An interview with Ha Tae Keung, a/k/a Young Howard, of Open News.

North Korea tries to keep the lid on dissent, which Alejandro Cao de Benos assures us does not exist.

The Korea Herald interviews Todd Zitin, the creator of Korean News Feeds. I owe Todd a particular note of thanks because I’d long wanted to aggregate all of my favorite news sites on one page, including many that still don’t have RSS feeds despite this being the 21st Century. Todd not only showed me a way to aggregate those sites, but to search their content for North Korea-related information, something for which I’ll always owe him a debt of thanks.

Our misunderstood friends, the ChiComs.

Update: Rest in peace, Charlie Wilson. We might not be fighting in Afghanistan now if Bush 41 and Bill Clinton had invested in cobbling together a decent government in Afghanistan back in the 1990’s.