David Sasaki

David Sasaki: I'm eating a Nestle Crunch

David Sasaki: @cookingdiva Probably because you're always cooking such delicious food

Peruvian-American novelist Daniel Alarcon writing in Spanish about his travels through the Middle East.

The Australasian CRC for Interaction Design (ACID) is host to an innovative and exciting project aimed at conserving Indigenous heritage using virtual reality technologies. [via Phil Cash]

A computer simulation that allows users to explore Sydney Cove prior to white settlement in 1788 provides a glimpse of the sorts of applications that mining companies could develop, its creators say. [via Phil Cash]

"We don't want to put a Peet's on every street corner," he said. "I'd rather have 100 percent of the business of the 10 percent of people who consider themselves real coffee lovers, than try to compete for the other 90 percent." [via Mari]

Panama: Political Season Heating Up, The Return of Noriega, and Crime in Panama: a Love Story

In Melissa de León Douglass' dispatch from the Isthmus, politically-minded bloggers look ahead to the 2009 general election and the more imminent return of their former president, General Manuel Noriega. Others, meanwhile, ponder the situation in Venezuela as the nation comes to terms with the closing of an opposition television channel, journey over land to neighbouring Costa Rica, mistake crime for flirtation, and more.

Lebanon: More on the Crisis in the Country

The northern part of your country is the stage for a dramatic standoff between the army and Islamic militants. Terror bombs explode daily in unexpected locales. And each day more and more civilians are displaced and forced to seek shelter in refugee camps. We're referring to Lebanon, of course, where the responses from the blogosphere range from gallows humour to strong anti-war sentiment to justifiable concern about where the next bomb's going to go off. There's also a new blog providing updates on the refugee camps housing those displaced by the conflict at the Nahr el-Bared camp, reports Moussa Bachir.

Sierra Leone: State Led Prostitution, Diamond Tales, And More

After 11 years of civil war, the West African nation of Sierra Leone isn't completely back on track, but the message from the blogosphere is that they're trying hard. With the launch of a new campaign designed to repair the country's tarnished image and attract foreign investment, bloggers are hoping that socially responsible moves on the part of certain investors are a sign that Sierra Leone won't need to "prostitute" itself this time around. Also in Vickie Remoe-Doherty's report, a VSO volunteer who loves his job, a visit to a local diamond mine and Leonardo di Caprio's unfinished business.

Belarus: Blogger br23/UÅ‚adzimer KatkoÅ­ski Passes Away

"He was just a guy who wanted to speak his own language and tried to convince the world to give a little respect to the history of his country, which is considered by nearly everyone as just a bunch of counties in Western Russia," writes one of the bloggers who pay tribute, in Veronica Khokhlova's post, to UÅ‚adzimer KatkoÅ­ski, the 30 year-old Belarusian cultural activist and web editor of Radio Free Europe's Belarusian service who passed away in Prague on May 25.

Kuwait: What Kuwaitis Did This Week?

While one Kuwaiti blogger contemplates why he should register to attend a film festival, others are visiting relatives and friends, ordering lunches in, comparing hypermarket prices and scrutinising Google Earth for places they didn’t know existed in their country, writes Abdullatif AlOmar.

Colombia: Reactions to Paramilitary Chief’s “Confession”

As Colombia paramilitary chief Salvatore Mancuso Gómez continues his deposition before the Attorney General’s office in Medellín, implicating senior government officials in the process, bloggers analyse both the testimony and the reactions of the government. "Meanwhile," writes Carlos Raúl van der Weyden Velásquez, "Colombians try to move on with their lives, hoping for the truth to finally show up…."

Landing at the Iraqi Blogodrome

This week's Iraqi omnibus from Salam Adil contains, well, "Everything… from going to schools in a war zone, review of the latest political scene in Iraq, must-see video blogs, stories of extreme bravery and extreme pathos, a $1,000 KFC meal, and if you read to the end, how gays cruise in Amman."

Roundups

Can a fly be pretty?, photos from the May 28 protests in Venezuela, Pakistan's drag queen talk show, and much more can be found in today's Global Roundups.

Interesting talk page on the Spanish Wikipedia for RCTV

LuisCarlos, tweeting live from the Chacaito protest.

David Sasaki: @efrain_s Please interpret as you wish. :)