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:: Sunday, September 13, 2009 ::

Ordinance map of unexploded bombs in Cambodia

Click for full size
[thanks Natali]

Labels: Amnesty, Maps, Politics, War

:: Dan 13.9.09 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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Israeli Arms Dealer’s Bollywood Foray

[via smashing telly]

"Weapons dealers’ marketing materials are often a great source of unintentional black comedy, however, there are no words to adequately describe this gem found by the excellent 3 Quarks daily.

"Israeli arms company, Rafael, decided to create a Bollywood style promotional video for the Aero India 2009 show in Bangalore. The truly weird result is a lot of singing and dancing around missiles."

Labels: Bollywood, Humour, Politics, Video, War

:: Dan 15.3.09 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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Andart: The Graphs of War

"Correlates of War attempts to collect data on international relations. During the recent conference on global catastrophic risks I started playing with their data on wars, coming up with the following graphs."



You can't really tell much at this size^ so please follow the link and read through the explanatory text.

[via Arenamontanus' photostream]

Labels: History, Maths, War

:: Dan 3.8.08 [Arc] [0 comments] ::
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