Vanrens Bergen photographs old abandoned places in his spare time. The site has some terrific photographs of the places that he has explored. The photographs have a haunting quality to them. (via Iconomy).

Amtabh Ghosh's 'Countdown in South Asia' is one of the most lucid, thoughtful and anguished books that I have read on the nuclear situation in South Asia. Unfortunately the book is not easily available outside India. He has now made the notes and the interviews that he took for writing the book available on his website.