• Obama’s Mideast Policy: The Case for Sitting on Our Hands – Now we may be witnessing the end of the “war on terror” as well. The rise of democratically elected Arab regimes that are less beholden to the United States represents Osama bin Laden’s and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s worst nightmare. The only source of their appeal was their opposition to American foreign policy at a time when other Middle Eastern leaders looked like corrupt flunkies for the U.S. and Israel.
• Hugo Ball – ‘One must be astonished totally, yet more and more softly. That is how eternity wonders at the times and changes them. One must wonder at the wonders. And also at the wounds, the deepest and last wounds, and elevate them to the wondrous.’

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• Geekcore – If you love fonts and colours and shapes and Comic Sans kills kittens, if all your base belong to us, if you badger badger badger badger mushroom mushroom!, if you still ask questions like a child who never learnt that asking questions was pointless
• Crowdmap – Free mapping and data visualisation – would be good to monitor free expression violations.
• Prisoner votes and the dishonesty of MPs – Those opposed to prisoner votes are misleading the public.

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• Dozenalists unite! – All about the dozenal society.
• List of Tools, Resources and Nonprofit Service Providers Covered in the Book « Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Blog :: A Social Media Guide for Nonprofits – Useful list including some CRMs
• Send free Mechanical Turk email messages to mturk workers -
• Partial solar eclipse and transit of the Space Station from Oman – Stunning photo

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• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
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• Wikileaks and the Long Haul –
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• Julian Assange and the Computer Conspiracy – Interesting article, analysing Assange's philiosophy on Wikileaks. "A strategy for how exposing secrets will ultimately impede the production of future secrets."

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• WikiLeaks reveals more than just government secrets – Awesome analysis by Glenn Greenwald at Salon.com
• Are there just too many people in the world? – Excellent Johann Hari column, suggesting that the best cure for overpopulation is feminism.
• A glossary of new terms for a messed-up future
• A radical pessimist’s guide to the next 10 years – People who shun new technologies will be viewed as passive-aggressive control freaks trying to rope people into their world, much like vegetarian teenage girls in the early 1980s
• www.rtrussell.co.uk – R.T. Russell – The Home of BBC BASIC. I have been reading ‘Godel, Escher, Bach’ which inspires me to write a programme which finds prime numbers.
• 5 Lessons From Longshot – A Magazine Made in 48 Hours
• A small Amazon Mechanical Turk Success Story – Mechanical Turks as OCR

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• Lendorff.Kaywa – QR code scarf
• Are there just too many people in the world? : Johann Hari – Excellent Johann Hari column, suggesting that the best cure for overpopulation is feminism.
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• A radical pessimist’s guide to the next 10 years – People who shun new technologies will be viewed as passive-aggressive control freaks trying to rope people into their world, much like vegetarian teenage girls in the early 1980s

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• A small Amazon Mechanical Turk Success Story – Mechanical Turks as OCR
• List of paradoxes – from Wikipedia
• Shaving is Barbaric – Editorial in the New Hampshire Sentinel, 20 June 1855.
• The Wilderness Downtown – Arcade Fire’s music video, personalised for YOU!
• 4.12: Mother Earth Mother Board – Neal Stephenson
• Taking bin Laden’s Side – Nicholas Kristof articulates perfectly why opponents of the Cordoba Initiative are mistaken. “Is there any doubt about Osama bin Laden’s position on the not-at-ground-zero mosque?”

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• The Ministry of Silly Walks –
• Shut up about gutenberg already – "The form of the book hasn't changed fundamentally in five hundred years," they tell us. It's like saying the form of the wheel hasn't changed fundamentally since the Bronze Age. Which is true enough—until you try putting a wagon wheel on your car.
• A New Sith, or Revenge of the Hope – Crikey. If you watch Star Wars prequels, you realise that actually R2D2 and Chewbacca are the real movers and shakers, and in a pretty dark way too.
• How to win Rock-paper-scissors every time – A strategy
• Should Orwell endure? – "because my worldview is so different from that of Orwell and his Cold War-era readers, I have to “think” my way into their political struggles in a way that someone even twenty years ago probably did not"
• Muslim Victims of 9/11 –
• 'Inception': Summer's Best, Most Disappointing Blockbuster – "For all its elegant construction, Inception is a film in which nothing feels comparably at stake. (In this it resembles Nolan's The Prestige, another admirably heady tale of perception and reality that never quite found a hearty emotional grip.)"

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• 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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• The Shortest Possible Game of Monopoly – 21 seconds, and there is a YouTube video to prove it.
• George Orwell: The Prevention of Literature – "At present we know only that the imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity. Any writer or journalist who denies that fact is, in effect, demanding his own destruction."
• Locals and Tourists – Flickr set showing where locals and tourists take photos in different world cities.
• Nick Harkaway – Nice chap, nice website
• ‘That’ or ‘Which’? – The choice between ‘that’ or ‘which’ depends upon the type of relative clause involved and is connected with the use of commas.
• Hunger Strike: The act of extreme desperation – The new government has an opportunity to put prisoners back at the heart of its human rights policy

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