by Charles Cameron | Feb 18, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — not an aha! but a d’oh! moment ] . . This, from the Huffington Post last month: The mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks now says that the use of violence to spread Islam is forbidden by the Quran, a major shift away...
by Charles Cameron | Dec 29, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — the game of Connect the Dots in play and practice ] . CIA's (now ret’d) Nada Bakos examines the Al Qaida board in the HBO docu, Manhunt. Manhunt, the HBO documentary, does what (not having been there and seen that at the time)...
by Charles Cameron | Sep 19, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — at the intersection of filmcraft, tradecraft, and gameplay ] . ** IBM Fellow Jeff Jones has a powerful insight into puzzles and analytics which I explored in one of my early guest posts here, A Hipbone Approach to Analysis III. I quoted...
by Charles Cameron | Jun 30, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — of Ozymandias, as Shelley’s story-teller friend reminds us, all that remains are “vast and trunkless legs of stone” ] . I am very fond of the long view, in which each of us becomes (physical) dust and enters (mental)...
by Charles Cameron | Jun 27, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — some very beautiful music accompanied by unexpected visuals ] . I am in full agreement with this tweet today from our co-blogger here on Zenpundit, Scott Shipman: Never gets old: J. S. Bach – Cantata BWV 63 – Christen ätzet...