04 Jun 2005
Norway rejects demand for religious tolerance in education

Move over Saudi Arabia, another oil rich kingdom is in the religious discrimination game! The actual document from the UNHRC is here: for a real smile just note the second level sub domain in that URL ... Old One Eye seems to get his hand in everything up North!

The Norwegian government has refused to allow more tolerant religious studies in its education system despite the strong criticism of the country’s rigid religious education curriculum. The Norwegian parliament has rejected the proposal for amending the religious curriculum despite the severe criticism of the current curriculum by the United Nations Human Rights Commission.

(link) [Asia Tribune]

via Bartholomew's notes on religion

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Collector's Trove of Podcasts

And excellent idea! With any luck at all, this will be the most documented age in history, which should help future generations immensely in understanding what really happened as they look back on our era.

A man makes it his mission to archive every scrap of online amateur radio, even though he thinks most of it is rubbish. By Ryan Singel.

(link) [Wired News]

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Give 'em a Chance, Steers Will Eat Grass

Nice write up on pastured protein ... is this a portent of better days ahead for smallholders like us? I hope so!

Although vegetables and fruit grown near the city have been the stars of the Greenmarkets for almost 30 years, pork, beef and lamb from local pastures are fast becoming the new darlings of the stands. New Yorkers, who are among the nation's early adopters of culinary trends, are learning that there is more to meat than uniform grain-fed slabs laid out on plastic trays.

(link) [New York Times]

via scott hutcheson

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