Superblog Boing Boing is being “blocked by entire countries including the United Arab Emirates, and by many library systems, schools, US government and military sites, and corporations,” Xeni says. The reason: a silly little program called Smart Filter, which classified 25,000 BB posts as “nudity.“ The problem is, most of these posts don’t have any […]
February 2006
I’ve spoken to a couple of company commanders in Iraq who say they don’t have much of a problem with roadside bombs. The big reason why: they avoid the main streets in their neighborhoods, travelling where their enemies aren’t. Now, the Pentagon is looking to use that technique all over Iraq, according to Inside Defense. […]
Adam Rogers is right: “IEEE Spectrum this month has an awesome, awesome article on why we cant get the electricity on in Iraq.“ He pulls out some of the story’s juicier tidibits. Stuff like: * Shortage of power nationwide: 4000 megawatts. * Amount of power you could generate from the natural gas that gets flamed […]
*Catch o’ the day: nuclear sub * Israel’s big-ass drone * Navy’s swimming spy plane (background here) * “TIA lives on“ * Data mining everywhere * Gunny B got blown up… and lived to tell about it * Now that is a lot of bombs (Big ups: RC, JQP, RN, HLS Watch)
I called my Mom one day when I was twenty-two, to complain about how totally sucky my life was. I don’t remember exactly what was so awful — I think maybe I was frustrated with a new boss or something. Whatever. I had just graduated college, spent a year on the Clinton campaign, and was […]
