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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

25. February 2010 by Shlok Vaidya
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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

25. February 2010 by Shlok Vaidya
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Arquilla in Foreign Policy

John Arquilla takes on the failure of military innovation in this great article. -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.

24. February 2010 by Shlok Vaidya
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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.

23. February 2010 by Shlok Vaidya
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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

23. February 2010 by Shlok Vaidya
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