August 2006
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Antiterror
Bruce Schneier counsels us that being afraid is exactly what terrorists — and maybe certain politicians — want us to be:
[from Wired News: Refuse to be Terrorized]
It’s time we calm down and fight terror with antiterror. This does not mean that we simply roll over and accept terrorism. There are things our government can and should do to fight terrorism, most of them involving...
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Umair Haque on Trifurcation Of Iraq
My buddy, Umair, suggests that trifucation is inevitable for Iraq:
“My personal take on the end game : the US will leave as the civil war breaks out. This will finally result in a trifurcation of Iraq. Two Sunni and Shiite nations will emerge that will either turn on each other, backed respectively by the Saudis (and indirectly by the US) and Iran, or collectively turn against the US...
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A Small Mishap
I was driving to Boston yesterday morning — I left at 4am to get there in time to attend a concert at Berklee College of Music, where my eldest, Keenan, has been for the past five weeks. Around 11am, I ran into a wall of traffic in Connecticut:
[from courant.com | Northbound I-95 Back In Business]
WEST HAVEN — I-95 was reopened about eight hours after northbound lanes were closed...
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Slammed By Context
I was musing, this summery sunday morning… after reading the New York Times and being smashed in the face with the mess that the world seems to be in… musing about the year 2006, what has transpired, and where we seem to be headed in the tech sphere. The world is spiraling into disaster, but what great innovation seems to be happening, globally, in tech. New apps rolling out on all...
