links for 2009-12-09 zefrank's brief history of the US involvement in the Afghanistan war a pretty good summary, well worth a few minutes of your time and a LOT better than most other summaries I've seen (tags: argybargy afghanistan chronology) HAPPY 60TH B-DAY, TOM WAITS like it says… (tags: musics) Jon Udell's take on Stewart Brand’s Whole Earth Discipline a nice fistful of links, and NB the one to the book's Annotations (last on the page) (tags: metastuff whole-earth)