Transcending Technology – Michael J. Russell

Today, October 25th, is St. Crispin’s Day, the anniversary of the historic Battle of Agincourt (1415 ), and the inspiration for one of the greatest soliloquies in the English language.

Rovio Mobile’s Angry Birds game meets Twitter meets faux-Disney Three Little Pigs in a YouTube video, produced by Russian animator Egor Zhgun.

How to teach geopolitics in 2011. Simply awesome.

North Korea: For the record. Authorities have begun a purge of corrupt senior officials, reportedly on the orders of the heir apparent, Kim Jung-un, according to defector sources. The crimes under investigation are allowing people to flee the country and smuggling. Comment: This is one of the ways a new team makes room for its own people. In the first years of his tenure, Kim Jong-il supported near-non-stop purges of party and military officials who were opposed to the dynastic succession idea in a communist state. He survived several assassination attempts and a mutiny by an army corps in 1994 and 1995. The ensuing repression was harsh and long lasting. The new heir-apparent’s advisors are taking no chances with opposition.