Dennis Hollingsworth

Gapminder

Check this out, via Sandmonkey. Very interesting. It looks a lot like Thomas P.M. Barnett's Core/Gap thesis. What happened to Africa around 1994 to make all those blue dots fall and roll back?

By the way, Egyptian bloggers like Sandmonkey are being squelched by the Egyptian government (Mubarak), Sandmonkey's most recent post about that here:

The implications for that are clear: A legal precedent will be set for the persecution and imprisonment of bloggers for what they write on their blogs, and the state will use it against its critics and detractors in the Blogsphere. The very flexible and indefineable nature of the charges allows them the freedom to go after anybody for anything. Define insulting the president; or define disdain for religions, hell or even trying to flare secterian strife or disturbing public security. Does calling Mubarak's policies stupid or describing his as an autocrat count as an insult? Does criticizing the Jihady mindset or being anti the boycott over the danish cartoons make you disdainful of Islam? Does reporting secterian clashes an attempt to flare secterian strife? Is showing police torture victims an attempt to disrupt public security? Do you people see where this is going?

Posted by Dennis at January 24, 2007 9:31 AM