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The world's oldest LOLcat?
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Kind review of a talk I gave in NYC recently, by an extremely sharp blogger who asked some of the best questions I've fielded recently. Nice analysis of the problems with the idea of architecting or institutionalizing serendipity
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Important piece of analysis, which argues that American pressure on the Union of Islamic Courts has led to the rise of a more extreme form of political Islam in Somalia and has likely created Al Qaeda safe havens where none existed before.
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Well-meaning Brooklyn entrepreneurs want to open an ice cream shop in Kigali, Rwanda. Insipred, inspiring or silly? Actually, I suspect high-end icecream would sell in Kigali, much in the same way that there's great demand at the high-end pizza place – possibly enough NGO folks to support it without necessarily reaching a wider population
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Is Mauritania using rented botnets to attack sites critical of the government? It's a strategy we're seeing with Burma – would be very interesting to discover if there's a "consultancy" providing these services to repressive governments.