Arresting Development

• ‘So many advantages apartments have,’ says the government. ‘Not least more land for us.’ (New Times)
• Higher fees facing the eight stockbrokers of the Rwandan Stock Exchange. (New Times)
• France and Rwanda struggle to get over their mutual loathing. (Economist)
• The AidSpeak Dictionary. (William Easterly)
• Lessons for Akagera? “As the shooting continued, one guard calmly raised his antique .303 Lee Enfield rifle to his shoulder, lined up [the poacher] in his sights, and blew his head off.” (Outside)
• “[T]hanks to an eccentric New York lawyer in the 1930s, this college in a corner of the Catskills inherited a thousand-year trust that would not mature until the year 2936.” (Lapham’s Quarterly)
• Ten things Apple is worth more than. (Buzzfeed)

And finally, albums upon albums:

• One day soon, the boulevards, avenues, and streets will all have names. (New Times)
• Double check those cables, says RBS. (New Times)
• Hey look, it’s Scott Ford of Rwanda Trading Company. (New Times)
• Hey look, it’s fashionable belt designed by ML fan Taya Maxey. (How To Spend It)
• Nollywood is now streaming for your pleasure. (Think Africa Press)
• The new and improved Heinz ketchup packet. (WSJ)

And finally, sweater weather:

• When do you suppose would be the break even point for the government’s plan to invest in iPads in order to reduce paper consumption? (New Times)
• Operations commander of the grenade-lobbing terrorist group used ‘Jackie Chan’ as an alias. (New Times)
• Rwanda’s dependence on foreign aid dropped 45 percentage points from 2000-2010, no doubt in part thank to wise paper management. (New Times)
• The new RwandAir 737-800 is wheels-down KIG. (Seattle PI)
• This has some nifty features, even if it doesn’t currently work for destinations outside the US. (Google Flights)
• Crowd-size estimation: more difficult than you think. (Popular Mechanics)

And finally, but no place for me:

• Airtel will be the next entrant in the mobile telecom market. (New Times)
• “Damning evidence” produced against Ingabire, says the headline. (New Times)
• And on the nth day, God said, “Let there be a National Meteorological Agency to count the rain.” (New Times)
• Thank goodness for the well-connected children of rich people, the organizations they found, and the reporters who write about them. (Tamba Bay Online)
• Not mentioned is that the Apple investigators are whisked around in black helicopters which make no noise… (SF Weekly)
• …While Marriott VIPs use government choppers to scope out Akagera. (How We Made It in Africa)

And finally, clever texts:

• Ingabire case halted again, this time due to a poor translator. (New Times)
• Some folks are benefiting from the fiber optic cable. (New Times)
• Some of the money disbursed for Genocide survivors’ housing was lost along the away. (New Times)
• American teacher has hopes to help with genocide education. (Buffalo News)
• What ‘African solutions for African problems’ really means. (FiveBooks)
• The grand taxonomy of rap names. (Pop Chart Lab)

And finally, veracity:

• An American company will be widening rural roads. (New Times)
• Mototaxis offer head covers now!?! (New Times)
• The taxation of expatriates. (New Times)
• The Steffen method for boarding planes. (Economist)
• Ten things everyone should know about time, which seems to go on longer when waiting to board a plane. (Discovery)
• The story behind that ubiquitous Windows wallpaper. (The Daily What)

And finally, the human heart stripped of fat and muscle:

• RBS inspector No. 23 simply shakes his head slowly when his family asks how his day was. (New Times)
• Mototaxi drivers told to “respect the law or face the wrath.” (New Times)
• Editorial: it’s time to export processed coffee. (New Times)
• I don’t actually get most of these. (aidlolz)
• My apologies of course when ML takes a while to download, but you could be in Sierra Leone. (Economist)
• Someone needs to buy these for Sam post-haste. (Lifehacker)
• We don’t really know how anesthetics work. (Boing Boing)

And finally, it’s science:

• Kiyovu property at bargain basement prices. (New Times)
• “Bean consumption in Rwanda averages 60 Kgs per capita — compared to 17 Kgs in other African countries — one of the highest in the world.” (New Times)
• Rwandair is getting a new 737 with Sky Interior. (seattle pi)
• DTV is adding three new channels! (New Times)
• HBO and the future of pay-TV. (Economist)
• Pretending to like ugali. (Stuff Expat Aid Workers Like)
• Danbo, the Box Man. (Viral Blender)

• You’ll understand if I found this survey less than compelling once I viewed their site. (New Times, MA Consulting)
• A British broadband provider hoping to set up shop in Rwanda come November. (New Times)
• The city cemetery has reached its 10,000 body limit, and the corpses may be contaminating the ground water; just something to brighten your day. (New Times)
• Denying poor Congolese miners a market maybe wasn’t so great an idea. (NYT)
• The remarkable rise in popularity of Greek yogurt; all-fat Fage is in my bowl on many a morn. (TNR)
• The Meta-Pizza. (Laughing Squid)
• An engagement photo shoot worth repeat reviewing. (Wedding Bee)

And finally, fecundity:

• Kagame fills those shirt pockets with jelly beans, I know it. (New Times)
• Fours years in Rwanda, and now Bralirwa’s Alexander Koch is moving on up to Greece. (New Times)
• RRA prevents those damned smugglers from bringing Waragi and Red Bull into the country, because that’s a cocktail no one wants to try.  (New Times)
• The DRC’s Mr Copper. (Economist)
• Coco Chanel: Nazi. (BBC)
• I trust ML readers are not in the 90 percent of computer users who don’t know the CTL/CMD + F shortcut. (Alexis Madrigal – Atlantic)

And finally, where’s WALL· E?