Foreign Affairs presents some the most insightful analysis of the geopolitical picture of any magazine. I frequently spend hours browsing its archive to find some incredible nuggets like Condoleezza Rice’s Campaign 2000: Promoting the National Interest. Once again Foreign Affairs has a piece that is a must read: Saddam’s Delusions: The View from the Inside.
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Robert Knoth has an incredible photographic study of the effects of radiatition in the former Soviet Union. Its called Nuclear Nightmares: Twenty Years Since Chernobyl after the fact. It is fascinating, disturbing, and important. You won’t be disappointed and you will be moved.
Few days ago I mentioned the debacle of Vista slipping yet again. Then this story hits the blogosphere. It pissed off quite a few folks and the truth is the story is pretty lame. If Microsoft had to re-write 60% of Vista it would take far longer than the few weeks slip they announced. Either [...]
Wow, Microsoft just slipped Vista again. This is monumental news, the 2007 season will be much bleaker for computer retailers without computer & spiffy new Microsoft OS to hype, then again, maybe Apple will wise up and get wider distribution of their computer. Something serious must be up inside of Microsoft, reading the blogs of [...]
The grey old lady has a great editorial from Michael Crichton on a massively important patent case. The case turns on whether or not a “fact” (in this case the relationship between homocysteine levels and vitamin B12) can be patented. Check it out and be shocked at the continuing attempts to expand the domain of [...]
Google is sponsoring a brilliant series of talks in their New York city office. I unfortunately missed Guido Van Rossum (you can catch it on google video) last month. This evening I had the opportunity to listen to Andy Hertzfeld reminisce about the good old days at Apple computer and the building of Apple, the [...]
Best prank ever can be found over at Bruce Schneier’s blog Schneier on Security, prank description can be found here.
This piece is a wonderful metaphor for alot of what goes on in modern software engineering. Scary isn’t it?
Really thinking about lisp this evening, I suggest you check out Sriram’s Lisp is Sin post
From Goncha’s Weblog we have lisp poetry. Lisp is a “special” language that generates lots of feelings. John McCarthy, father of lisp, is proud.
Speaking of John McCarthy, check out his commentary page. His commentary is fascinating and sure to generate controversy. I wish he would setup a blog and publish more frequently (& I could get [...]