Phil Butler Unplugged

I can’t help but feel that China must be seeming rather surreal to many of her citizens these days. With the upcoming Olympics around the corner, rampant industrialization replete with huge human and environmental costs and nearly constant news of human rights issues - one has to feel for the people there. Are human rights [...]

South Korea is one of the most “wired” nations on the planet as is commonly known. I ran across an interesting bit of news today dealing with what can be termed “Web addiction”. Evidently the South Korean government has established a network of 140 Internet addiction centers to curb compulsive Internet usage by “afflicted” people. [...]

The death toll in Bangladesh is staggering and will probably exceed 2000 before all searches are over. The low lying country was smashed by super cyclone Sidr on Thursday with winds in excess of 155 mph. Rescue efforts are underway with Military ships and helicopters trying to reach the thousands of survivors of the [...]