Zarate Gets The Times Square Bomber
Juan Zarate, President George W. Bush’s former deputy national security adviser, agreed that the Times Square attack may mark a new chapter in the terrorist threat. “The model may be shifting here, in part because they may have made a calculus that it’s much more difficult to have a big ticket attack, and secondly, they may have moved to a model of disruption rather than destruction,” he said.
James Fallows on TSA-style linearity
He’s thinking about what the response would look like if the TSA were in charge instead of NYPD. He arrives at the same conclusions I did after the December attempt:
All vans or SUVs headed into Midtown Manhattan would have to stop and have their contents inspected. If any vehicle seemed for any reason to have escaped inspection, Midtown in its entirety would be evacuated;
Idea: Urban Farming Platform
LOL. A business idea I was shopping around to various incubators and VC’s a year and a half ago (getting all kinds of weird looks) is taking off. Farmscape in CA is minting ($54,000 in 2010 alone!). Here’s my original 3 minute pitch.
There’s still an opportunity in this space. Why? Because a powerful but simple platform would allow these organizations to collaborate and innovate extremely quickly while exposing them to an entirely new class of customers, while keystoning a marketplace of providers.
Harnessing the power of the collective is what these guys are predicated on, and I’d love to help them achieve potential. The first organization to exploit this reality is going to really zoom, and I’d love to help them out.
