Random links
- Coffee prices on the rise
- So, a 44% rise in wholesale coffee prices over the course of the summer. Guess that explains why coffee prices were up at the grocery store last week about 50% over what I'd recalled paying a while back. In related news, Starbucks is hiking prices because their drinks were just too cheap.
- Mobile phones in tough places: Reaching the world’s unconnected will require more adventurous carriers
- Crazy... in certain remote parts of the world it seems that cell towers have been powered by generators run using fuel transported into the region on the backs of donkeys.
- The Voters: Men Are Fuming, Women Despairing
- At large men and women have different voting patterns. How does that impact elections?
- Gay Saudi diplomat fears for life?
- I like the sentence at the end: "Is this a political story? Yes. Is it a cultural story? Yes. Is it a religion story? Yes, of course. Deal with it."