links for 2009-07-23

  • A Pew Global Attitudes Project finds that there's been a huge spike in support of our nation and President Obama by people around the world since Barack Obama was elected president. The most interesting finding is that Turkish, Egyptian, and Indonesian citizens now, for the first time, say they're more confident in Obama than in Osama bin Laden. That's a huge victory.
  • Dubai is spiraling down into a hell on earth. A gleaming monument to the real estate bubble, built and maintained by thousands of slaves, the entire place is like a cautionary fable about the worst excesses of the financial world in the past few years, only it's real and still propped up by the UAE.
  • How the color spectrum is divided up is a social construct, which is represented in language. Some cultures see blue and green as distinct colors, some see them as the same color.

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2 replies on “links for 2009-07-23”

  1. “The most interesting finding is that Turkish, Egyptian, and Indonesian citizens now, for the first time, say they’re more confident in Obama than in Osama bin Laden. That’s a huge victory.”

    Huh? The logical explanation is that those citizens have a favorable opinion of both BHO and OBL, but they prefer BHO. That’s not a victory; that’s scary.

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