My del.icio.us links: 18th June to 2nd August
- The Complete Unbelievability of World War II – "So yeah. Stay away from the History Channel. Unlike most of the other networks, they don't even try to make their stuff believable."
- Death on Facebook – Coming from a generation that grew up with Facebook and lived in a world in which relationships weren’t official until they were on the social networking site, in a strange way finding out about a friend dying in war via Facebook made it more real
- Daniel Ellsberg on the Limits of Knowledge – Henry, there's something I would like to tell you, for what it's worth, something I wish I had been told years ago. You've been a consultant for a long time, and you've dealt a great deal with top secret information. But you're about to receive a whole slew of special clearances, maybe fifteen or twenty of them, that are higher than top secret
- Waterboarding and the Media – Comprehensive study showing how waterboarding has been redefined by US media. It used to be called 'torture'… now, not so much. This is Orwellianism in action, no hyperbole.
- Let's say you're the first human ever to make alien contact –
- 2010 gadgets redesigned for 1977 –
- Can England be more than a 90 minute nation? – Sunder Katwala's long and rewarding essay on Englishness and Britishness, the best of the World Cup reflections I have read this tournament.
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