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The Burden<\/a>: a thoughtful piece by Michael Ignatieff on the US’s apparent moves (drift?) towards being a de facto imperial power. Among other points, he argues that, in trying to be the “worlds policeman”, the US may acquire an empire in the same way that Britain did. That is, accidentally and without really considering the consequences. Lets hope not. It took us a long time, and a lot of deaths, to get rid of the British empire  #<\/p>\n

Keith Brown<\/a> of Developmentor fame is writing a free, online book called Essential .net Security<\/a>. He currently has only a couple of chapters posted, but if the rest are going to be as good as this<\/a> chapter then it’ll be well worth keeping an eye on. # <\/p>\n

Business2.0 has a good business-oriented article<\/a> on Miguel de Icaza’s Mono<\/a> project. # <\/p>\n

Tool of the day is Steve Miller’s PureText<\/a>. Nice and simple, this one. Clicking on the icon that it adds to the system tray causes all formatting information to be stripped from the text in the clipboard. Very useful for copying and pasting text between applications without carrying-over the formatting as well. I use this a lot. # <\/p>\n

Alan Adla’s advice<\/a> to President Shrub on the pressing scrientific issues for the world and the USA.  Wonderful, clear, concise writing – I wish I could express myself like this:<\/p>\n

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“The problem is that, although we’re all entitled to our beliefs, our culture increasingly holds that science is just another belief. Maybe this is because it’s easier to believe something?anything?than not to know.” #
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Infiltration.org<\/a> has some intriguing stories (and pictures) of people going where they shouldn’t. And, on the subject of unashamed trespass on corporate space, those wacky funsters the Yes Men<\/a> (creators of the spoof gatt.org<\/a> site) are demonstrating their “employee visualisation appendage” over at The Ecologist<\/a>. I read this in the print version of the mag and it nearly reduced me to hysterics. <\/p>\n

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