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links for 2008-07-18

• Ethan Persoff's Poodle Samizdat
  New Yorker ("Goal is to see if it's possible to make a universally offensive cover out of this wishy washy half-satire") and moooore. "This website proudly digs up, restores, and exhibits some of the rarest political ephemera you will ever see..."
  (tags: argybargy comics)
• Nuristan Backgrounder
  from Ghosts of Alexander. More here than I can readily assimilate, and greater clarity than almost anything else I've seen on the Other Catastrope
  (tags: afghanistan geopolitics anthropology)