Monday linkage
by Sam Roggeveen
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15 June 2009 3:15PM
- Dutch courage: A hair-raising account of Dutch military heroics in Afghanistan in aid of Australian soldiers.
- Iran and new media: Two Atlantic blog posts, one about the critical role of social media in the election itself, and another about how blogs are covering the election.
- The Economist ranks the world's most liveable cities.
- Kevin Rudd didn't like Terminator: Salvation. Joshua Gans wonders why.
- The NY Times green energy blog offers some context to Japan's allegedly meager C02 emissions cuts proposal.
- Five random things I learnt during a short visit to Iran in 2006:
- There is no call to prayer in Tehran.
- There is more political ire directed at Britain than at the US — other than Robert Mugabe, Iranians may be the only people left who think the Brits run things.
- Gardens alongside Tehran's major roads are immaculately tended, mostly by Afghan refugees.
- Iran has a huge illegal drug problem.
- Basic Instinct was once screened in Tehran. Well, sort of.
