Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Center for Strategic Leadership RSS 2.0 The mission of the Center for Strategic Leadership is to serve as an education center and high technology laboratory focused on the decision-making process at the interagency, strategic, joint, and operational levels in support of the Army War College, the combatant commanders, and the senior Army leadership. The center's objectives are to expand and refine the study of the strategic use of landpower and its application in joint and combined operations, and to help senior leaders solve strategic problems with information-age technology. Publication: Rule of Law. Executive Summary: The conference gathered general practitioners and and subject matter experts from around the globe to explore and provide recommendations regarding rule of law issues including Civil-Military relationships and issues; Choice of law, how law fails, how it is established, how it is reestablished; and Human Rights, Constitutionalism, Elections, and Guaranteed Individual Rights. Conference participants represented a wide range of expertise in the Rule of Law arena to include representatives both governmental and non-governmental organizations from Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, Italy, Sweden and the United Nations, as well as the various departments and agencies of the United States Government. (952 KB .pdf file) [Center for Strategic Leadership (CSL) - Recent Publications and Upcoming Events] 9:34:50 PM

Kyivstar Call Back Kyivstar launches 'Call Me Back' service. Ukrainian operator Kyivstar has launched 'Call Me Back,' a service that lets customers with a low balance send a free request to a friend, colleague or relative on the Kyivstar network asking him to call back. [Digital Media Europe - digital media news from across Europe] 8:28:35 PM

Cresent Moon, Earthshine and Venus Cresent Moon Earthshine & Venus. ccwoodruff posted a photo: An image of the Cresent Moon with Earthshine and Venus from 012007. By  (ccwoodruff). [SPACE.com Amazing Images] 7:04:53 PM

Venus Introduction Advance in science comes by laying brick upon brick, not by sudden erection of fairy palaces. - J. S. Huxley Venus, the jewel of the sky, was once know by ancient astronomers as the morning star and evening star. Early astronomers once thought Venus to be two separate bodies. Venus, which is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty, is veiled by thick swirling cloud cover. 6:40:45 PM

string theory testing Physicists Develop Test for 'String Theory'. For decades, scientists have taken issue with "string theory" - a theory of the universe which contends that the fundamental forces and matter of nature can be reduced to tiny one-dimensional filaments called strings - because it does not make predictions that can be tested. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news] 6:15:40 PM

Steve Rubel via ScriptingNews.com Steve Rubel: "Someone should commission a study on bloggers who choose to syndicate the full text of their posts in RSS feeds vs. those who abstain. Something tells me they're read more." [Scripting News] 6:03:29 PM

Sustain it Friends Sustainability Goes Mainstrean: This Week's Business Week Cover Story. Check out this week's Business Week cover story: Beyond the Green Corporation: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_05/b4019001.htm. Also check out Innovest's Top 100 Global Companies that are socially responsible: http://www.global100.org/ read more [Stanford Center for Internet and Society [beta site] -] 5:56:56 PM

Cultural Theory Weblinks Now That's What I Call Cultural Theory! Vol. 1. I've been working in my spare time on two projects near to my heart: a freeform webcast station for my university and a Media Ecology course with a large online database of readings. As I've moved towards the stage of... [WFMU's Beware of the Blog] 7:06:02 AM