Drones

December 22, 2009

The Army Times reports that Iraqi insurgent militias supported by Iran seemed to have early warning of U.S. actions, apparently because of their ability to hack U.S. drones.“We noticed a trend when going after these guys; that sometimes they seemed to have better early warning” of U.S. actions, said the officer briefed on the raid. […]

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Relics

December 21, 2009

Some years ago Kathy and I were in Munich, and we found ourselves in the giant walk-in safe that holds the Wittelsbach family’s personal collection of holy relics, almost all of which were neatly labeled. (The Wittelsbachs, you may remember, included [in chronological order] Mad King Ludwig I, Mad Max, and Mad King Ludwig II. […]

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Meepery in the First Degree

December 21, 2009

The word “meep” has been banned in a high school in Salem, which I’m sure I don’t have to remind you was the home of the famous witch trials. Bob Thompson, a pop culture professor at Syracuse University, said he first heard students meep about a year ago during a class screening of a television […]

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ICE Castles

December 21, 2009

I haven’t commented on the Peter Watts thing, partly because I’ve never met Peter Watts and don’t know whether or not he’s capable of trying to strangle a border agent after being pepper-sprayed in the face. (I know I am. If someone pepper-sprayed me for no reason, I’d do my absolute best to crush his […]

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What Were They Thinking?

December 21, 2009

So it seems that our Predator drones, on which we depend for so much intelligence and air-to-ground support in Afghanistan, have been using unencrypted communications. Which have been intercepted by Serbs, Iraqi insurgents, and probably the Taliban and al-Qaeda. (Because, y’know, a Western-educated multimillionaire like Osama just couldn’t possibly understand how a satellite dish works.) […]

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The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs

December 16, 2009

Fake Steve Jobs speaks with AT&T’s Randall Stephenson:Randall, baby. we’ve got a hit on our hands . . . And when I say that “we” have a hit on our hands, I’m really giving you way too much credit, because let’s be honest, the success of iPhone has nothing to do with you. In fact, […]

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Ceci N’est Pas Une Update

December 15, 2009

Coming in February from Editions l’Atlante! (Translated by our own Jean-Daniel Brèque)

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Oops! Dropped the Palantir!

December 15, 2009

It’s the 6 Lord of the Rings Characters Who Totally Dropped the Ball. Gandalf’s leadership in The Fellowship of the Ring exemplifies the perils of on-the-job training. Let’s test your knowledge of the trilogy with the following questions: 1. How many horses did Gandalf insist the Fellowship bring? 2. What would Gandalf have done if […]

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Aigues-Mortes

December 12, 2009

So here we have two views of the intact medieval walls of Aigues-Mortes, in southern France near the coast. Aigues-Mortes, which means “dead water” in the old local dialect, is built in the marshland of the Camargues, a perfectly flat stretch of wetlands that forms the Rhone delta. Aigues-Mortes isn’t on the sea, but is […]

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Solar For the Home

December 11, 2009

Lowe’s now sells solar panels that you can install yourself. Lowe’s has begun stocking solar panels at its California stores and plans to roll them out across the country next year. This shows how far the highest of the high-tech alternative energy technologies has come. Solar power is now accessible to anyone with a ladder, […]

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