KeepNet 8 June 2008
Top billing has to go to Dave Dillege’s eagle-eyed unearthing of The Counterinsurgency Library at SWJ Blog. It looks like it could be a useful resource alongside Abu Muqawama’s Counterinsurgency Reading List and the SWJ Reference Library, which Dave says is heading for a revamp.
I can’t say I’m totally surprised by the news that Sikh groups trying to revive insurgency in Punjab, judging by the pro-Khalistan demo I recently witnessed outside the Indian embassy in London. On the other side of India, a new terror threat emerges in the shape of Bangladesh-based group Harkat-ul-Jehad Islami (HuJI). Luckily for everyone, HuJI are pally with those inveterate meddlers, Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
I really like the look of this upcoming paper: Spatial Syntax of Insurgency in Iraq, reviewed by Michael Innes at Complex Terrain Lab.
Teleportation between virtual worlds? The first demonstrable step in cross-virtual-world interoperability has been taken.
Michael Tanji thinks big and warns of The Long-Term Price of Rushing to Misjudgment.
In blatant contradiction to what the rest of the world thinks, UK is not a surveillance society, MPs claim. The Guardian editorialises.
David Foster at Chicago Boyz asks, Duz Web Mak Us Dumber? based on a Nicholas Carr article in The Atlantic. Conclusion: possibly, but people got equally exercised about telegraphy, railroads, radio and photography.
Nick Cohen in The Observer really brightens up my day with No one wins in modern-day academia, putting the blame squarely on New Labour, whose policies would have ensured Wittgenstein was out of a job.
It might sound strange for a city of nigh on 20m people but Cairo can be a truly dull place sometimes, especially when the heat comes down and traps a two-mile high pall of dirt over the chaos below. Twice in three years I found myself splashing out 25 piastres to visit Giza Zoo and gawp at the Sacred Baboon Sanctuary, carrot-fed ostrich, and easily the most depressed chimpanzees in the world. Arabic Media Shack has more on the sorry state of the Khedive Ismail’s former palace in Who Stole My Elephant?
If I was running a RagWatch series, the Daily Mail would win every time:
Controversial [i.e. gay] actor Rupert Everett has accused British soldiers risking their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan of being “whining wimps”, it emerged today.
That’s news? Seeing as how al-Qaeda are canvassing their constituency for ideas, how about taking down the Mail’s bloody awful website?
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