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Cheshire – the town next to my hometown – is inexplicably given a $665,962 homeland security grant. And they can’t even spend it, because the money was supposed to be for a new firetruck, and comes with the explicit prohibition on spending it on the truck
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Interesting followup by Second Life correspondent – former Africa correspondent – on my virtual/real comments re: Pitchfork the other day.
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Rocket fire in Mogadishu, government troops engage “unknown combatants”. Could be UIC. Could be warlord. And the AU’s not there yet…
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Comments from Somalis in Mogadishu on the new uncertainty and instability post Ethiopian invasion
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Janet’s got a great review of Swivel and other data visualization tools