Bruce Henderson is a former Marine who focuses custom data mining and visualization technologies on the economy and other disasters.
Imagine, all of this squalor could be yours, you lucky US IBM employees! In case you are not a technology worker, over the past 15 years an increasing number of skilled jobs in this country have been going to (largely) Indian workers who come to this country on what is known as an H1B visa. […]
A nice photo of the special ops version of the Marine Corps Osprey, courtesy of Defense Link. This bird has been adapted to search and rescue, or recovery of people in the wilds. This photo is from a training mission over the Florida coast. The Osprey has been a very ambitious project that has taken […]
Now that they are beginning to see that the original bailouts and TARP is not working, your government is preparing yet another exotic scheme to try and rescue the financial industry. From the Financial Times: US set for ‘big bang’ financial clean-up Barack Obama is gearing up for a “big bang” announcement next week that […]
China has undergone unprecedented growth over the last 15 years, as the communist government worked hard to convince the west to ship entire production industries to their country to be performed cheaply (if at somewhat reduced quality) in exchange for the means to higher profit margins. As a result a vast amount of rural chinese […]
Great rocket-scientist photo of the day: The launch abort system being fitted to a dummy CEV housing in preparation of February testing at White Sands, NM. Note the “spares” in the top left.
We are one month into 2009, and it is shaping up as one of the more dynamic years in my lifetime for geo-politics. As long as the economies around the world were expanding, everyone could be or pretend to be fat, dumb and happy. How that the global flood of easy money has evaporated, many […]
Yesterday afternoon the conservative blogosphere was erupting over news that President Obama had given his first television interview – to Al-Arabiya: CAIRO, Egypt (AP) – President Barack Obama chose an Arabic satellite TV network for his first formal television interview as president, part of a concerted effort to repair relations with the Muslim world that […]
Word from CNN that Canon of Japan has struck upon a novel idea that is actually more insightful than they may know. In a country where 12-hour workdays are common, the electronics giant has taken to letting its employees leave early twice a week for a rather unusual reason: to encourage them to have more […]
This reminds me of a series of riots in Lagos some time ago where there were “black sorcerers” that were stealing men’s genitals. It seems that blaming some evil magic is a viable explanation for almost anything. Ah Nigeria! LAGOS (Reuters) – Police in Nigeria are holding a goat on suspicion of attempted armed robbery. […]
