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Tensions increase between US and Eritrea over Somalia and over US’s failure to support a UN resolution giving a border town to Eritrea. US support for Ethiopia has helped turn Mogadishu into “Baghdad by the Sea.”
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As British troops pull out of Basra, the city they leave behind looks more conservative than it has been in the past. Grafitti on the street blacks out the face of women in posters and threatens women who don’t veil themselves
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Excellent piece from Andrew Lih which looks at good and bad uses for Tor, and the ability for rogue exit nodes to capture traffic and passwords.
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IBM builds a major presence in Second Life. So striking Italian workers plan to picket in Second Life against IBM… at least they’ll get some coverage
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Reactions to a proposed “stay away” from work in Zimbabwe show both skepticism and a desperate desire for change. Nice example of using SMS and email to solicit reactions to a social phenomenon