Archive for October, 2006
John Robb over at Global Guerillas had a post on the Role of Cities in 5GW (Fifth Generation Warfare) and he does make some excellent points, but more could be said about two issues. His post begins:
Went up to Chicago this weekend, and saw Millennium Park and all kinds of really interesting Architecture, too.
But, what was interesting and relevant to my observations on current trends in Globalization was a small purchase I’d made at Ikea. As usual, Ikea has gotten so many things right in both their business plan and [...]
Reported on channel 4 (CBS) tonight, Tuesday October 17, 2006, was the story that an air monitoring station in downtown Saint Louis had yesterday detected Tuleramia, one of many potential bio-warfare agents.
A question comes to mind when reading all of the posts on Ed Felten’s Blog Freedom to Tinker and the several posts of Tim Lee at Tech Liberation Front, about the many security flaws in the Diebold electronic voting machines.
Given the likelihood for widespread fraud, and the loss of transarency, to our elections, what is [...]
Just finished the excellent book Collapse by Jared Diamond. I had read portions of his earlier Guns, Germs and Steel, and really liked his approach in that book, too. One of the things that make his book so convincing is his ability to see things from many points of view (the really essential cross-disciplinary approach), [...]
Just finished the excellent book Collapse by Jared Diamond. I had read portions of his earlier Guns, Germs and Steel, and really liked his approach in that book, too. One of the things that make his book so convincing is his ability to see things from many points of view (the really essential cross-disciplinary approach), [...]
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