by zen | Nov 10, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] “We’re starting an insurgency of critical thinkers” – Darya Pilram, Red Team Instructor Last weekend was my first Defense Entrepreneurs Forum conference, DEF 2015 . I came away extremely...
by zen | Jan 23, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] Lewis Shepherd, formerly of the DIA and IC and recently of Microsoft, has an outstanding post on Microsoft’s exciting ambient/holographic computing interface HoloLens. What I saw in the videos is stunning and I then...
by Charles Cameron | Nov 6, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — I’m in Caliornia at present, and thus without access to either of these possibilities — plus — in praise of Karl Sharro ] . Heaven, so to speak? I found heaven, this is the perfect combination, an English pub with...
by zen | Jun 30, 2013 | Monitor
Mussolini’s Italy:Life under the Fascist Dictatorship by by R. J. B. Bosworth Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott Been busy writing a book review and a long and serious post, so here is something more lighthearted and tangible in the meantime. Having...
by zen | Feb 20, 2013 | Monitor
Grand Blog Tarkin is hosting a symposium on the Battle of Hoth. Sparked by WIRED magazine’s original debate begun by Spencer Ackerman, Grand blog Tarkin’s Symposium features some of the finest sci-fi war nerd speculation from keen strategic thinkers from...
