Some random items of interest:
- Excellent structural analysis on America's decline by Umair Haque. Peers behind the curtain of the usual factors to get at underlying drivers.
- Microcredit meltdown in India. Political protest shuts down repayment on $2 billion in loans.
- The academic mercenary. More evidence of moral decay.
- TSA mission creep round-up for your ranting pleasure: Chertoff corruption -- took money from scanner companies when he advocated scanners as Homeland security chief. Ron Paul's 'American Traveler Dignity Act' mi=8511. TSA gropes 3 year old girl. mi=8305 New TSA signage (funny). mi=1536
- A how to on P2P file sharing dead drops. Hilarious and cool.
- Stoned Afghan soldiers. An oldie but a goodie.
- Cargo UAVs. I wrote a paper on this a couple of years back. Bruce Sterling's comment: *The aerial truck-bomb, and the smuggler's best robot friend.
- La Familia network diagram.
- Drones on the arms smuggler menu.