CIA's Toy Gone Awry: from India's Outlook and reprinted in World Press Review.

Ben Aris and Ahmed Rashid on the real goal: control of Central Asia's oil. [via Undernews]

In 1997, the Daily Telegraph reported on a Taliban visit to Texas, hosted by Unocal. [via Ethel The Blog]

cURL: command line file transfer via URLs. [via CamWorld]

Sysadmin horror stories [via CamWorld]

Europe moves closer to 'cookies' ban [via NewsTrolls]

Into Finn Air: Finn-Olaf Jones' tale of how his Discovery Channel sponsored expedition to Mount Everest was thwarted by a forwarded email and an unhappy encounter with his outfitter, who has since been barred from Nepal.

On the reading list:
Eleanor Rieffel and Wolfgang Polak published An Introduction to Quantum Computing for Non-Physicists in Computing Surveys last year.