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October by U2

U2's 1981 second album is their most openly spiritual, a raw, searching record I came to long after its release.

Music

The Sigma Protocol by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Sigma Protocol, banker Ben Hartman and agent Anna Navarro uncover a WWII-era cabal, Sigma, manipulating world events through assassinations and age-reversal tech.

Books

The Fourth Protocol by Frederick Forsyth

In Frederick Forsyth’s The Fourth Protocol, a gripping Cold War thriller, a Soviet agent named Valeri Petrofsky is sent to Britain to carry out a sneaky mission to blow up a nuclear device.

Books

Monthly update #0224 • December 2008

Monthly update 224 • December 2008 • 2008-12-01 - 2008-12-31

Monthly Updates

Privacy Roundup #0029 • December 2008

December 2008 closed the year with a landmark Strasbourg ruling against the UK DNA database, fresh deep packet inspection rows, and a clutch of payment and government data failures.

Privacy