My stalwart co-blogger, Bruce Henderson, has been waving his arms here on ASIP for roughly two years now about the coming financial crisis, with a particular focus on the subprime fiasco. Well, here’s a link to a funny, scathing, profane, yet quite accurate presentation (using stick figures) on how we got into the subprime mess [...]
Angelina Jolie, who has been doing humanitarian work in Iraq, wrote an op-ed piece in the New York Times that says: the surge is helping the UN’s humanitarian efforts and that she’d like the troops to stay: During my trip I also met with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who has announced the creation of [...]
In case you’re not aware, Microsoft is being sued for allegedly setting misleading levels of hardware compatibility for “Vista Capable” computers. In other words, the suit claims that Microsoft knowingly set low levels of Vista-compatibility for hardware, even though many of the computer models so designated would not be able to run anything above Vista [...]
…and still one of the best: Hat tip to the Llama Butchers. ..bruce..
Continue reading about One of the oldest bits of ‘net video…
Here’s the news report: Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early “We will be pretending to count votes and we will be running totals through out the night.” ..bruce w..
A fascinating article about how the British Army used a professional stage magician in their fight against Germany in North Africa: Maskelyn’s inventiveness was awe-inspiring. Another thing, you see – or rather the German’s didn’t see – was that out there in the hot, flat, dry there aren’t a lot of reference points. A tiny [...]
The Pentagon is confirming that they got a good hit last night against USA 193, also known as NRL 21; a crippled intelligence satellite. While we await a better quality version of the video to be available from the DoD, take a look at this wonderful computer rendering of the shot and the break up..
The man is just brilliant. ..bruce w..
[Update 0730 PST - Henderson] Some nice animation of the shot can be found here.. [Update 1945 PST - Henderson] Brief word from the news wires that USS Lake Erie took the shot as planned and reported a hit. Congratulations to the crew for executing their mission like professionals in spite of conditions that (from [...]
New from Nerf: Details over at Gizmodo. The nerd arms race continues… ..bruce w..