Over the summer the news was that troops of environmental activists were parading through the northwest passage to draw attention to the fact that it was ice free. This was supposed to imply that that run away, man made global warming was wrecking the arctic. In reality most of these expeditions ended locked in the […]
Earlier this year I outlined a DARPA project to produce a hypersonic UAV under the project name “Falcon Blackswift” According to the few details available on Blackswift, Lockheed Martin’s famed Skunk Works shop is the main contractor for the vehicle. DARPA, in fact, still isn’t talking about Blackswift; it’s using the HTV-3X designation. But HTV-3X […]
The Onion is on a roll…what can I say? Precocious Youngster Sells Cookies To Buy Attack Ad ..bruce w..
I was out running various errands today, which included stopping by my bank to deposit a few checks. The branch building looked deserted when I pulled into the parking lot, and as I went to go in the first set of doors, I saw a piece of paper taped to the inside of the 2nd […]
As I write this, the markets in Japan are down nearly 10%. Several of the markets in Asia are closed in hope of shuttering themselves against the raging storm that they helped create. The Yen carry trade is at long last unwinding like the tightly wound spring it was. There is not enough money in […]
Got my (mail-in) ballot today and was startled at how many Presidential candidates qualified on the Colorado ballot. What’s your guess? (Answer and list after the jump)
(Photo of the fire overnight from Mike 68’s flickr photo stream) To those of you waking up and wanting to know about the blaze near the south side of Camp Pendleton, according to fire officials it is now more than 70% contained. This means it is still going to be throwing a huge amount of […]
[10/06/2013 — NOTE: For those landing here via search engines, this post is from October 2008 and does not refer to the October 2013 Camp Pendleton fire.] October returns, and days before our first real Santa Ana wind event, we get our first good sized fire. This one is burning on the south west side […]
[UPDATED 2134 MDT: Uh, corrected David Zucker’s last name. Thanks, Kevin!] [UPDATED 1604 MDT: Got an Ace-o-lanche going on, with other links coming in — welcome all! Also made a few minor edits.] The Devil, the proud spirit, cannot endure to be mocked. — Sir Thomas More I went into “An American Carol” with guarded […]
Not a good sign
In my long list of blogs and websites that I visit once a day is contemplate.us, which serves up a random proverb on each visit. As the global finanical markets melt down around us, I wondered what wisdom it had for me on a foggy October morn:
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