A fascinating view of the recent rebellion in Egypt. Seems that facebook and twitter were used more for giving the police false information than actual organizing.
http://sfbayview.com/2011/victory-for-egypt%E2%80%99s-leaderless-revolut...

The revolution was successful because it had no leaders, only coordinators of bottom-up energy. Its use of social media was brilliantly conceived to meld online organizing with offline action, not supplant it. The inability of older generations to understand the power of this new form of leadership among Egypt’s – and ultimately the world’s – young people suggests there will be many more such surprises in the future, both at home and abroad. ...
In Egypt, the roughly one dozen technologically sophisticated middle class young organizers assumed the police were monitoring their communications and deliberately sent them scurrying to false protest locations, announced on their Facebook sites, even as selected members of their group were sent quietly into poorer neighborhoods to organize the groups who were ultimately successful in taking over Tahrir Square.

http://www.presidency.gov.eg/
Site under Reconstruction. HEH!

Squat the World!
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23923106-squatters-move-i...

A GROUP of squatters has taken over a £6 million central London house belonging to film director Guy Ritchie.
At least 12 people have occupied the large Grade I listed property in Fitzrovia and claim they now plan to convert the building into a free school.

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today's photos:

Most wasteful snow clearing method discovered: This guy stood there for about an hour spraying hot water on the snow.