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The Great Patch Conspiracy
Frank Gaffney is going nuts over a new missile defense logo. This is a guy who spends his every waking moment terrified of something or the other, be it the Chinese taking over the Panama Canal, or flaming objects falling … Continue reading
Fight Back PAC
Interesting use of a political action committee as an offensive weapon. Could be a useful model for someone wanting to target the financial industry (which includes a variety of elected officials). This deep pocketed gay rights group is targeting the … Continue reading
Arquilla in Foreign Policy
John Arquilla takes on the failure of military innovation in this great article. -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.
It’s the Simple Datapoints
Courtesy of my Google Reader, the juxtaposition of these two articles is darkly humorous: -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.
Idea: Using MIT’s FlyFire
Via BldgBlog Among other things, if you made these nodes emit non-visible parts of the spectrum, you could have giant floating stealth interfaces for presenting information that could rapidly dissolve as necessary. Kind of like the exploding secret note of … Continue reading

