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The moment we found a Bosavi woolly rat (with thanks to Leon Wild).

The New Yorker‘s Sasha Frere-Jones on Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails’ final tour.

My 2008 presentation on Reznor and Radiohead’s strategies during ‘label shopping’ negotiations.

What Reznor possibly wished he had produced and why it leaked to BitTorrent.

Sears Holdings chairman Edward Lampert responds to Barron’s.

TNR‘s Peter Boone and Simon Johnson on the next financial crisis.

Johnny Rotten revives Public Image Ltd.

Richard Metzger’s new site Dangerous Minds.

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The Wall Street Journal on the boom in software platforms for open source intelligence in finance, regulatory compliance and intelligence analysis, such as Palantir Technologies.

Search the Global Terrorism Database of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland.

Oliver Stone returns to Wall Street with the sequel Money Never Sleeps.

How 9/11 conspiracy theories may have ended Obama’s appointment of ‘green’ expert Van Jones.

Security maven Bruce Schneier on Australian counterinsurgency expert David Kilcullen (with thanks to Barry Saunders).

Chronicle of Higher Education on Facebooking your way out of (academic) tenure.

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Four Ideological Views of District 9

Critics have predominantly interpreted Neil Blomkamp’s science fiction
film District 9 (2009) as an allegory on South
Africa’s apartheid system, racism and xenophobia. Below are four ideological views of the film’s narrative arc and plot elements. In the spirit of W. W. Warren Wagar‘s
work on alternative social futures, these also highlight how the same
media artifact can be perceived through different political
philosophies.

Continue reading “Four Ideological Views of District 9”

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Strategist Edward Luttwak on Atilla the Hun and the status of military historiographers in academe.

Barry Saunders on journalism in an age of data abundance.

The Kevin Rudd essay (PDF) that the geopolitics journal Foreign Affairs rejected.

How the collapse of Lehman Bros. created a global shockwave and the anniversarial debate.

Why the StatArb hedge fund Renaissance Technologies red-flagged Bernie Madoff in 2003 and the SEC report (PDF).

Rewriting the political punditry of military historian Max Boot and neocon Paul Wolfowitz, who calls for a rethink on realist foreign policy, despite critics.

View some free university lectures on Academic Earth and YouTube Edu.