The most important news item you've never read is the Human Security Report, published in 2005 by the Human Security Centre at the University of British Columbia, is IMHO one of the most important pieces of news to come out in the last decade, and also one of the least widely covered. Briefly, it's an in-depth look at the human impact of war, ( Read more... )

"Never is etiquette and 'good form' observed more carefully than by experienced travellers when they find themselves in a tight place."
-Sir Ernest Shackleton

I recently stumbled across Crocker's Rules. You can find many versions of them on the net: this particular rendition is from DoWire.org:
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I've just started reading David Brin's The Transparent Society. I've been recommending it to people for years as one of the most important books on its particular topic, but in spite of that, I've somehow never gotten around to reading it. His basic premise is that rather than trying to preserve our privacy, we should accept the inevitability ( Read more... )