Via the Young Fogey, here's an amusing website that ranks and grades the various flags of the world. What grade does your country get?

Ken Macleod has an interesting post about his attendance at an SF convention in Croatia

Georgian President Saakashvili has disbanded the Adjaran parliament and installed direct rule in the province after the departure of Aslan Abashidze. Living with Caucasians has an interesting on-the-ground perspective on the events before the flight of Abashidze

On April 5, Siemens AG's CEO Heinrich v. Pierer talked to the UN Security Council about The Role of [multinational] Business in Conflict Prevention, Peacekeeping and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding. I suppose the perspective of cross-country hierarchies on these issues should be given more public attention.

A decent overview of Poland and the EU, from a business and economic perspective.