Jinn of Quality and Risk

Very nice weblog focused on urban issues in Québec. Each region/town in the world should have one. Québec urbain: L'urbanisme de Québec en version carnet 

DaveNet: A news aggregator is software that periodically reads a set of news sources, in one of several XML-based formats, finds the new bits, and displays them in reverse-chronological order on a single page. I use Radio UserLand and have about 80 news sources. It has made a major difference in how I use the Internet, keep track of the media and new ideas, and decide to write something about it. It's a fantastic tool to gather information and distribute it. There are countless concrete applications that one can build on top of news aggregation, e.g. sharing community news, pulling project information into a coherent whole, filtering financial reports, and tracking industry- or company-specific events. 

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way...you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. — Aristotle. 

Because Calvin is nasty, brutish, and short. [via Volokh] 

Basil H. Liddell Hart (1895-1970) was a military historian and is considered among the great military strategists of the 20th century — in a league with Sun Tzu and von Clausewitz]. Liddell Hart served as an officer in the British Army during World War I where he witnessed the horrors of a war led by incompetents. He set out in the following years to discover why the casualty rate had been so terribly high during the war, and arrived at a set of principles that he considered the basis of all good strategy, principles that, he claimed, were ignored by most commanders in World War I. These principles can be reduced to a single phrase, the indirect approach i.e. deny equilibrium to the enemy in order to win the conflict. [Wikipedia]