• Hallelujah! – Brian Appleyard on Leonard Cohen's modern masterpiece
• Jesus Rodriguez Velasco – Striking design, reminds me of Borges for some reason.
• Democratic Candidates and Technological Metaphors – Clinton is Yahoo, Obama is Google. McCain is Microsoft.
• Why I wrote PGP – "If you really are a law-abiding citizen with nothing to hide, then why don't you always send your paper mail on postcards? Why not submit to drug testing on demand? Why require a warrant for police searches of your house? Are you trying to hide something
• Interracial Intimacy – White-black dating, marriage, and adoption are on the rise. This development, however, is being met with resistance—more vocally by blacks than by whites
• HisSpace – The Internet Presidency – How would Obama’s success in online campaigning translate into governing?
• Wanted: new-thinking pioneers – Martin Bright: "Even exceptional behind-the-scenes strategists such as Dan Corry, the present head of the No 10 Policy Unit, or Nick Pearce, Brown's strategy adviser, are in no position to think in the long term."

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• My gateway to infinity – Clive James again: "It can talk about value, saying not just “This is what I have done” but “This is what others have done, and I find it valuable beyond price”.
• clivejames.com
• Music Gives Me Hope – Daniel Barenboim on the decline of Israeli socialism and the unifying power of music: "Before a Beethoven Symphony, all human beings are equal"
• USA political election logos 2008 – 1960 – I think Nixon's use of a full stop is particularly interesting.
• normblog: Israel at 60 – “Those who cannot celebrate the existence of Israel but only criticize it, put themselves beyond all sense of sympathy with the legitimate concerns of the Jewish people – as if these had no basis, no rationale, no historical genesis; as if Israel’s history was solely about usurpation and error; as if it was not itself born under the threat of annihilation, a threat that is ever renewed.”

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