Going to war is easy…everyone gets emotional, and we decide to take out <whomever>. War doesn’t end on the day we declare peace. Taking care of the soldiers who went to war is a lifetime cost. We are still paying out disability pensions and VA health bills for veterans of WW2. In WW2, we had [...]
Browsing Posts published in June, 2010
Proof that politicians are ineffective everywhere: The EU agrees to police itself better. This is after the Greek debacle.
The NYTimes has an ith-tho-thad story about student loan debt(see this one about an auto dealership from CNN). It goes on in detail about how Citibank and NYU loaned a student close to $100,000 for her college education. The article claims that the university should have done something, anything, to prevent her from being buried [...]
I read about the assassination of the Hamas official in Dubai earlier this year, and was struck by the amateurish nature of it. The Dubai police made a great presentation and were able to finger the members of the assassination team quite quickly. The Mossad looked stupid. I have no experience in spycraft but I [...]
Lawsuits a rich source for entertainment and education. If you really want to understand the justice system, go to thesmokinggun.com and click through to link to any of the actual legal documents that are provided as PDF’s. TMZ also has some good stuff. Today I’d like to talk about a guy in Florida who had [...]
Original article from Bluemoon.ee People find the most interesting uses for data. This developer took photos uploaded to a photo-sharing site and generated a map of the most ‘touristy’ places in the world. What is interesting is how the developer leveraged the data out there to generate this view: 1) First he got the raw [...]
Articles comparing cellphone technology in the US versus Japan / Korea / China usually center on how backward America is. And it is true, we in the USA do not have the advances they have in those countries. This article says the same thing about TV over mobile but it completely misses the point. (Archived [...]
