Danny Fisher follows up on Burma with a depressing report from avaaz.org.

An unlikely pairing: Amnesty International and John Rambo.

Quick: what’s the capital of Burma? The zoo is being moved there.

The Karen National Union, a rebel group on Burma’s border with Thailand, saw their leader Mahn Sha assassinated recently. He’s now been replaced by his number two, Htoo Htoo Lay.

Autonomy for Thailand’s Muslim south is “not unthinkable” according to an editorial in the Bangkok Post, but after a stir Thailand’s interior minister Chalerm Yoobambrung is now stepping back from his statement.

And a recent wave of horrific bombings has brought the civil war in Sri Lanka to Colombo and other southern cities.

Sylvia Boorstein, author of the new book Happiness is an Inside Job, dropped by the Tricycle office this afternoon to say hello. Your humble correspondent snapped this pic, and talked her into doing a Q & A on tricycle.com! Look for it next month.

She showed us her cool new website, which has pictures of the author / meditation teacher/ psychotherapist as a young lady in Brooklyn. Her husband Seymour, whose picture is on the site, was with her.

Sylvia is one of the founding teachers at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California and a senior teacher at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts.

If you’re going to be in New York City, check out The Vision and Art of Shinjo Ito at the Milk Gallery starting February 21st. More about it here.