Some random items of interest:
- More later.
- Parot drone. iPhone + wifi + UAV. Nice.
- The war correspondent Michael Yon gets handcuffed by customs agents (not TSA) at the US border: When they handcuffed me, I said that no country has ever treated me so badly. Not China. Not Vietnam. Not Afghanistan. Definitely not Singapore or India or Nepal or Germany, not Brunei, not Indonesia, or Malaysia, or Kuwait or Qatar or United Arab Emirates. No county has treated me with the disrespect can that can be expected from our border bullies. More.
- Guardian. Goldman Sachs' employees are so special that they ought to be viewed in the same category as professional athletes and movie stars, according to a board member of the Wall Street behemoth. Special? Think about this in another way. Global financial elites have set up themselves up as a virtual global tribe through story telling, rites of passage, obligations, largely leaderless, segmented function, etc. The allure is definitely there (a similar process led the elites of the USSR to jump ship, which precipitated the collapsed of that superpower). Another way to look at it: except for the method, there's very little difference between this tribe and al Qaeda. Both do us damage.
- Bots. Come to think of it, I also ran the company and did a lot of the viral marketing that made RSS (really simple syndication) a global standard and shipped the first RSS aggregator back in 2002/3 or so. RSS/aggregators are one of the first globally popular (open/decentralized) bot systems. LOL.
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