Arresting Development

• ‘“The impact is clear; for example, one of the students has distinguished himself by programming the design of a house while using a basic programme called scratch without any prior training” Bakuramutsa said.’ (New Times, Scratch)
• Rwandan kid honored with a kiss at the Dubai Quran contest. (New Times)
• The UN report will not change, and neither will anything else. (Economist)
• My first visit to Kigali Central Prison. (International Bridges to Justice Blog)
• How to raise a superstar. (Wired)
• Betty Lou Oliver. (Wikipedia)
• The biblical body counts of God and Satan. (Rational Response Squad)
• A learned evaluation of synthetic weed. (The Smoking Jacket)

And finally, other natural and not so natural methods of doing science:

• ‘It’s a long-term plan, they want to falsify, and deny that the Genocide took place in Rwanda. They do so with the help of the Ingabire’s, FDLR and many other genocidal groups; and now the newly-leaked UN report. The intention is to deny or negate the genocide of the Tutsi and instead say Hutus were the ones who were killed. We saw this coming,’ Simburudari said. (New Times)
• Genocide ideology on the decline. (New Times)
• Cereal output on the rise. (New Times)
• Hereward Holland puts his facts in a box. (Reuters)
• Static stretching before running doesn’t prevent injuries and makes your muscles tighter, ya dingus. (NYT)
• Press your ashes into vinyl. (And Vinyl)
• An exchange about an electricity bill. (27bslash6)

And finally, 1968 Kigali (click to enlarge):

• Rwanda threatens to withdraw troops from Darfur if UN report is released because Rwanda don’t play politics, son. (Reuters)
• Noah : Ark :: Rwanda: fiber optic cable. (New Times)
• New Times Versus: Free Speech Edition. (New Times vs. Amnesty International)
• Splice good earbuds onto your iPhone earbuds for better sound while maintaining functionality. (Tested)
• “The consultant Lior Arussy calls this the “efficient relationship paradox”: … the result that a company’s current customers are often the ones who experience its worst service.” (New Yorker)
• The answers are “jazz” buzz” and “hajj.” What’s the question? (Wolfram Blog)
• Cheesy, yes, but weirdly good special effects actually. (YouTube)

And finally, lachrymose Leo:

• Rwanda to distribute half-a-million high-yield coffee saplings this year. (Bloomberg)
• “‘The government has contributed Rwf50,000 to every village to help in the celebrations. This is just a small contribution compared to what has already been done by the people themselves,’ Musoni said.” The government’s money is the people’s money too, no? (New Times)
• Mean-looking pregnant women bashes mentally unstable man in the head with a rock for “stealing her suitcase.” (New Times)
• “He added that according to statistics, in 2006, the annual national milk production was 154 million litres and as of last year, it had more than doubled to 33.2 million.” (New Times)
• More on the UN report. (Atlantic Wire)
• Unattractive maybe but less ridiculous than the short-sleeved suit. (LA Times)
• Inside the secret world of Trader Joe’s. (Fortune)
• Six movie plots that could have been solved in minutes. (Cracked)

And finally, plane decisions (click to enlarge):

• UN leaks report to press on war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Congo from ’93-’03; here’s one analysis. (Congo Siasa)
• BNR increases GDP forecast for the year to “7-10 percent.”  (New Times)
• No more old driving licenses after Sept. 30, say police. (New Times)
• RwandAir not worried about increased competition from the likes of KLM and Air Uganda, which is also effecting a terminal redesign at KGL. (New Times)
• This BBC observational documentary series called Welcome to Lagos is well done. (YouTube)
• Use this site to download YouTube and other online videos onto your hard drive so you can enjoy at your leisure. (Savevid)
• For perhaps 50 million years a fungus has been turning ants into zombies. (Guardian)
• Eight ways to take advantage of free calling in Gmail. (Lifehacker)
• Awesome deities you wish your religion had. (Uproxx)

And finally, soda pop (click to enlarge):

• Downtown Ltd. construction now underway.  (New Times)
• Motorcycles involved in 2/3 of all road accidents in Rwanda. (New Times)
• And those road are getting longer and better. (New Times)
• Rwanda fashion week happened, I guess. (The Standard)
• The eight types of people in your fantasy football league. (Guyism)
• Man was shot in the head and didn’t notice for five years. (MSNBC)
• Math lessons for locavores. (NYT)
• Somehow Cee-Lo makes a thousand-time refrain of “F**k You” joyous. (Pitchfork)

And finally, A to B:

• Kagame tells exporters they need to add value to their products to make more money; I call it the Value Addition Protocol for InDustry, or VAPID. (New Times)
• Gubmint to provide RWF 28 billion in seeds and fertilizer this season. (New Times)
• The “true facts” behind the HRW researcher’s expulsion from Rwanda. (New Times)
• Fitch upgrades Rwanda to “B” citing strong growth and an improved business environment. (WSJ)
• The top five ignored humanitarian crises. (UN Dispatch)
• Buy in the afternoon eight weeks in advance for the cheapest airfares. (Guardian)
• Zee Germans lick their frozen pistols. (today and tomorrow)
• A field guide to music’s most famous bandanas. (College Humor)

And finally, all containers lead to China:

• Kigali’s roads getting lit and drained. (New Times)
• Investors love them some Rwandan debt. (New Times)
• Ngabo hasn’t disappeared; he’s at an undisclosed military facility. (AP)
• The attempt to clean up Congo’s conflict minerals. (Economist)
• Russia in color from a century ago. (Boston Globe)
• Greek statues in color from millennia ago. (io9)
• Twenty vintage cigarette ads. (Super Tremendous)

And finally, renewable energy:

• The Boeing has arrived! (New Times)
• GAPCO employee steals RWF 120 million by forging a signature on a stolen check. (New Times)
• Ngabo, brother of  Nyamwasa, arrested, lost. (BBC)
• FDLR blamed for gang rapes in North Kivu. (NYT)
• Kagame impugns judgmental foreigners. (RRA)
• Ignore tradition: pour champagne as you would with beer for the best bubbly. (kottke.org)
• What is it about 20-somethings? (NYT)
• Six movie heroes who actually made things worse. (Cracked)
• Vulgar Roman poetry starts with a bang. (Wikipedia)

• Rape cases down by 95 percent compared to six years ago? Really? (New Times)
• Thieves made off with over $40k from Ndoli’s–both arrested, one escaped from the police truck. (New Times)
• Rwanda coffee exports hit a record high of $23.5 million for green (YTD?), is expected to hit $68 million by year’s end (I think). (New Times)
• That baby in the beggar’s arms may have been rented. (Telegraph)
• Chillax, bromance, and buzzkill among the words added to this year’s Oxford English Dictionary. (Reuters)
• For the non-literal definition, take a gander here. (Idiom Dictionary)
• How to make ice cream without the machine. (The Kitchn)
• Eight teams and their high school classmate equivalents. (Sports Pickle)

And finally, deception: