Some items of interest:
- Pentagon wargames Afghanistan. This wasn't a real wargame (I wasn't invited ;-P) that tested alternative strategies. It was actually a PR game aimed at influencing an internal audience.
- TechShop. A commercial version of a community workshop. This type of shop is something we are going to see lots of in the "maker" future (decentralized manufacturing) as people pool tools to get things done. The training available there looks like a post-graduate course list for the swelling ranks of college educated unemployables (at a microscopic fraction of the cost of going to a university).
- Paranormal activity. Movie made for $15k makes $62.5 m and still going strong (directed by a video game maker).
- The Homebrew Manufacturing Revolution. An excellent paper by Kevin Carson. Recommended!
- Leah Farrall, owner of the excellent blog "All Things Counter-Terrorism," has an asynchronous conversation with Abu Walid al Masri (Taliban media strategist).
- Superempowered actors in Movies. See the trailer for "Law Abiding Citizen." Looks GREAT!
- Washington's blog. Branding the US system (in an era of postcapitalism and postdemocracy). From fascism to socialism to kleptocracy to plutocracy. The terms are flying fast and loose.
- I love DIYbio.