One has to wonder how much money the UN spent on this.

A video game which aims to teach children about global hunger has been released by the United Nations.
Food Force is the brainchild of the World Food Programme (WFP), which last year fed more than 100 million people.

The UN body seeks to capitalise on the popularity of video games to educate youngsters about hunger and the work of the aid agency.

Written for the PC and Mac, the free game is aimed at eight to 13-year-olds for download at www.food-force.com.

Riding Sun notes that the game is 227 MB to download, and makes a great comparison between bloated file sizes and the UN beauracracy. He also profiles one of the characters. Check it out.

Via MM.

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La Shawn has an opinion on this story.

Although a gang of black boys (up to 30!) beat four white girls bloody while calling them “white crackers” and shouting “black power,” the cops say it’s not a hate crime. No explanation appears in the article.

According to the New York penal code (crime occurred in New York), a hate crime is an offense “committed against persons intentionally selected ‘because of a belief or perception regarding the race, color, national origin, ancestry, gender, religion, religious practice, age, disability or sexual orientation’ of those persons.”

Beating white females and calling them “white crackers.” Sounds like a hate crime to me. Then again, who am I but a reasonable person living in the real world and not a pre-programmed politically correct grievance shopper living in a socialist utopia inside my own head?

Obviously, she’s pointing out the hypocrisy here, but she also has missed the opportunity to make the point that the term “hate crime” is really a redundancy anyway.

Ann Coulter:

Showing his usual reverence for fact-checking, The New York Times’ Paul Krugman says the Republican Party is “dominated by people who believe truth should be determined by revelation, not research.”

I’m not sure how these descriptions square with the fact that liberals keep responding to conservative ideas by throwing food. (Remember the good old days when liberals’ “fact-driven” ideas only meant throwing money at their problems?)

HT: Michelle

Also commenting is LaShawn Barber who adds (regarding the Buchanan salad dressing incident):

And isn’t this an ideological hate crime? The idiots should be punished for the physical act and their nasty thoughts.

David Horowitz got hit too.

And The American Thinker weighs in.

Their crimes are against the civil right to freedom of speech, and their organized efforts to violate these civil rights may well violate federal law.

Wired has an interesting article today on the subject, and there is one Mr. Mann who has made it his mission to do “sousveillance.”

In an attempt to establish equity in the world of surveillance, participants at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference in Seattle this week took to the streets to ferret out surveillance cameras and turn the tables on offensive eyes taking their picture.

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He has designed a wallet that requires someone to show ID in order to see his ID. The device consists of a wallet with a card reader on it. His driver’s license can be seen only partially through a display. And in order for someone to see the rest of his ID, they have to swipe their own ID through the card reader to open the wallet.