I don't suppose anyone know what Yule's coefficient Q is? Or does?

Ooo! The Botswana webcam is cool. I'm still cranky we didn't get Botswana for an overseas assignment, but I'll go there someday.

I just gave in to all the emails from Friendster and logged into it, for the first time in years. I looked up my college, and they list famous alums, including "Terry Gilliam (Monte-Python) [sic]." I'm wondering if I should bother correcting them.

Some Yemeni tribes have pretty clothes for women (you aren't supposed to photograph women there). And the official Muslim garb that Mahatir designed for Malaysian women is pretty, if polyester.

And the official Muslim garb that Mahatir designed for Malaysian women is pretty, if polyester.

I don't suppose anyone know what Yule's coefficient Q is? Or does?

For those times when just one efficient isn't enough?

Hmmm...

two lawyers representing witnesses in the Plame investigation have begun to surmise that Fitzgerald is now weighing a criminal conspiracy charge against a group of senior White House officials.

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Who would those officials be? The list of possible candidates is long and includes Rove, Libby, Ari Fleischer, Cheney and -- if Stephanopoulos and his source are to be believed -- the president himself. The Post says that Fitzgerald could make his prosecutorial decisions as early as this week.

So it's possible Cheney - and Bush himself - may be charged with criminal conspiracy.

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Stealth oppression!

It wasn't terribly stealthy at the time. He designed an official Malaysian garb for men also, but (at least the couple years I lived there) most men didn't wear it.

More burqa trivia: a few years ago Ethiopia made it legal for women to have their official ID photos (like passports) taken while wearing the full head covering. Most Western nations protested this as rendering the whole point of "photo ID" useless, but Ethiopia said that women weren't comfortable having their naked faces photographed.

I should look that up to see if they ever retracted it.

Muslim modesty garb doesn't have to be ugly. Hell, judging from Morocco, it doesn't even have to be modest.

We went home with some women we met on the train in Algeria, and as soon as they got in their gate (not door, gate), they dumped the djellabas to reveal shirts and jeans underneath.

It wasn't terribly stealthy at the time.

Muslim modesty garb doesn't have to be ugly. Hell, judging from Morocco, it doesn't even have to be modest.

We went home with some women we met on the train in Algeria, and as soon as they got in their gate (not door, gate), they dumped the djellabas to reveal shirts and jeans underneath.

Iranian women have been pushing the envelope for years. The chadors and headscarves are getting colorful and stylish (and shorter) and beneath them are designer clothes, jeans and 'spensive shoes.

Most Western nations protested this as rendering the whole point of "photo ID" useless,

Well, yeah, kinda.