George Monbiot's essay on the School of the Americas, renamed earlier this year to the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. For the second year in a row, there is a House bill to shut down the school. [via anfin]

Thematic maps of Afghanistan, mainly reflecting humanitarian activities in recent years. [via Rebecca's Pocket]

How to build an authentic Dalek. [via The Fruitlog]

On reports by a French newspaper that bin Laden was treated at an American hospital in July and met with a CIA representative. The CIA denies the story.[via Ethel The Blog]

MIT's Laboratory for Energy and the Environment looks at the future of transportation and sees chronic gridlock and pollution.

yeti@home: distributed computing in search of a legend. [via Bifurcated Rivets]