Monthly Archives: March 2007

In an era defined by free information exchange via the wide open, largely unregulated internet, the concept of federal bodies in the United States stepping in on behalf of monied interests and redefining the way users, businesses, and information all … Continue reading →

See with your tongue. Navigate with your skin. Fly by the seat of your pants (literally). How researchers can tap the plasticity of the brain to hack our 5 senses — and build a few new ones. read more | … Continue reading →

Do you ever wonder what happened to all of those bright-eyed, optimistic visions of a clean, utopian future that technology would someday bring for us all? Paleo-Future is a great (and sobering) online museum that documents the collective imagination of … Continue reading →

BBC journalist Matt Frei presents a brief but enlightening layout of the forces at work in US/Iranian relations. It’s more complicated than the election-year rhetoric would have us believe, but it’s not beyond our ability to solve, if we only will. If I … Continue reading →

I wonder how many times mistakes like this happen these days, when PR disaster is often just a click or a “reply to all” away. D/L the full pdf if you have a chance, it’s a pretty interesting look into … Continue reading →

The leading manufacturer of night vision gear for the Defense Department has admitted sending classified materials overseas and will pay a $100 million penalty, according to federal prosecutors, who say the actions of ITT Corp. have jeopardized the security of … Continue reading →

According to McCain, the surge is working! And the streets of Baghdad are safe for Americans to go strolling down. The only problem? Michael Ware, who is, ya know, in Baghdad, says McCain hasn’t a clue… read more | digg … Continue reading →

An excellent little article by Chris Chatham that puts a lot of common misconceptions about the future of AI into sobering perspective… read more

A Glimpse into Government Radley Balko, March 26, 2007 The one useful thing to come of all of this is the small modicum of transparency that occurred almost by accident when the Justice Department responded to Congressional information requests by … Continue reading →

The Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE), from which U.S Watch Lists are drawn from, has grown to the point that it threatens to overwhelm the people who manage it. The bloated database has become a vacuum cleaner for both proven … Continue reading →

One of the most bizarre weather patterns known has been photographed at Saturn, where astronomers have spotted a huge, six-sided feature circling the north pole. Rather than the normally sinuous cloud structures seen on all planets that have atmospheres, this … Continue reading →

Jeff Hawkins invented the Palm Pilot and wrote a book called ‘On Intelligence’. Now he has founded Numenta – a company dedicated to developing algorithms and software based on the ideas put forward in the book. This spring Numenta released … Continue reading →