The line between envy and admiration can be pretty thin, when you’re a freelance writer. Take, for example, Defense Tech pal Sharon Weinberger’s story in today’s Washington Post Magazine. It’s genius: a heartfelt, quirky, subtly snarky profile of Pete Bitar, an Anderson, Indiana styrofoam recycling entrepreneur who’s now marketing non-lethal lightning guns to the Pentagon. […]
August 2005
The Times has an interesting story on American relcutance to give Iraqi army units the machine guns and armored Humvees they want. Simply put, Iraq remains too fragile for any planner to know what shape the country will be in six months or a year from now — whether it will reach compromises and hold […]
Ohio State is working on a simple new sensor that could one day put other detectors out to pasture. Unlike X-ray machines or radar instruments, the sensor doesn’t have to generate a signal to detect objects it spots them based on how brightly they reflect the natural radiation that is all around us every day. […]
* Police vest can’t stop bullets * Robo-guards to Iraq * Honest-to-God Bat-rope * Catfish = evildoers? * Real, virtual war games mash up (Big ups: TT, GO, RC, Sploid)
Pick up the paper today, and you’ll read reports of “fierce gun battles [that] erupted between about 40 insurgents and the police… in western Baghdad.“ Here’s what those battles looked like, from a soldier who was there. He was kind enough to copy me on an e-mail he wrote home immediately after the fighting. I […]
