This Just In: CIA Unveils 50-year-old Spy Plane
Well, the CIA technically unveiled it last week, but since the project began in 1957, I figure covering the story 4 days after it happens sure beats waiting 50 years to talk about it.
Anyway, last week at CIA headquarters, down in Langley, VA, the A-12 spy plane, codenamed Oxcart was unveiled to the public and [...]
Military appeals to base materialism
One of the latest army rah rah commercials has some young polished pilot talking about how the most sophisticated piece of machinery he’d ever driven at home was a tractor and now, in the army, he’s piloting a multi-million-dollar plane.
These commercials imply that by entrusting these soldiers with expensive equipment, the army holds them in [...]
Phoning it in
CNET News has some good News for us.
Apparently the big 5 cell phone manufacturers (Nokia, Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and LG) have decided to nix all of their previous phone chargers and agreed to go with a universal micro-USB charger for all of their future phones.
This is good-ish news. This means that in the future [...]
One Of Them Computing Machines
I don’t consider myself age-ist, I have plenty of friends who are old. I mean I even work for some one who is in their sixties. But, you know, with some older folks, they reach a point, well, when maybe it is time for them to retire. You notice small things, they forget little details [...]
In the Intelligence Community,
the Kids Are Running the Candy Store
…but is that such a bad thing?
I live in Washington, DC so pretty much every third person I know is a spy. Intelligence runs like a leitmotif through every policy discussion in this town on Iraq, Iran, North Korea, China and terrorism. The talking heads on the all news channels and think tank policy wonks who focus on this issue [...]
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