1 Are you prepared to make a pact with the devil?
2 End of the World, Dubai edition (h/t Oliver Morton)
3 James Fallows (or, more precisely, one of his readers) explains why bipartisanship can't work in the US Congress
4 Steven Berlin Johnson on the iPad: "I can't help thinking that an iPad-native home environment was a project that didn't make the ship dates, and that they slapped on the old iPhone screen for continuity at the last minute"
5 How international NGOs kill civil society in developing countries (h/t Evgeny Morozov)