Clearing the Cache: A Day in the Life of Afghanistan

  • "Abdul Qahar, Kunar Provincial Deputy Director of Education, stands watch while members from the Provincial Reconstruction Team Civil Affairs, based at Camp Wright, Afghanistan, deliver a truck load of school supplies." Flickr photo by U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Brian Boisvert.
  • Passed along without comment, which seems fitting: CNN launches "Political Tweets of the Week."
  • And does a military-themed Follow Friday.
  • Tom Watson (U.K. edition) wants his fellow MPs to play video games.
  • Our Andrew Rasiej is in Span's biggest paper in the run-up to the PdF Europe conference, taking place in Barcelona next week. Learn what has Andrew saying "mucho."
  • Google goes to the Vatican, which has admitted that simple online searches might have provided salvation during recent trials.
  • And Britain's former Home Secretary gives technology points for openness and transparency, otherwise sees its impact as negative: '[T]he consequences are that you get instant reaction, you get instant answers, and, of course, you get a world where people are starting to know more about politics in a way that makes them all the more distrustful and cynical.''

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