Die Reaktion der Politik ist die übliche, nämlich die, sich selber zu helfen.

• India: The World’s Secret Silicon Valley
  When it’s about India and technology, most people immediately think of outsourcing, but in a country this big, there’s obviously also real innovation going on.
• China’s Great Firewall Tests Mysterious Scans On Encrypted Connections
  Apparently China is testing ways to “improve” their censorship systems.
• Open Source (Almost) Everything
  Tom Preston-Werner writes about why GitHub open sources almost everything they do.
• “Aussteiger werden als Volksverräter gesehen”
  Interview with Bernd Wagner, who works for an organization that provides an exit strategy to Neo-Nazis (in German).
• The Core Memory Module from my dad’s homebuilt PDP-11/05
  This guy’s dad is building a PDP-11 clone. This is beyond awesome!
• Tuning out: How brains benefit from meditation
  A recent study shows that experienced meditators seem to be able to turn off specific brain regions.
• The Pest Who Shames Companies Into Fixing Security Flaws
  Christopher Soghoian is relentlessly fighting for our privacy online.
• A Philosopher’s Mission to Save the EU
  Like so many people at the moment, German philosopher Jürgen Habermas is angry.
• The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy
  Is this the reason why the “Occupy” protesters gets attacked so violently?
• Placebo Buttons
  Like with most placebos, I’d say as long as it works, it’s ok.

Your brain doesn’t like randomness, and so it tries to connect a cause to every effect; when it can’t, you make one up.