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 | Aug 16, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — the lure of exile, of hijra, in the context of western jihadists going abroad ] . Whereas the Prophet’s first visionary reception of the Quran dates to 609-610 CE, and the Prophet himself was born some 40 years earlier, the Islamic...
by Charles Cameron | Aug 7, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — books, Gitmo and Snowden — signing off with a great clip from Three Days of the Condor exhibiting the benefits of reading ] . I’m not entirely sure that Fifty Shades of Grey qualifies as Literature, but I think it can squeeze...
by Charles Cameron | Jul 8, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a powerful tale of “de-radicalization” as metanoia ] . Munir . Munir, by his own account, was drifting under the influence of various radical Muslim clerics, Abu Hamza al-Masri among them. One’s never too sure about the...
by Charles Cameron | Jun 27, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — on the basis, the mathematics, the essence of conflict and resolution ] . . This DoubleQuote features two great masters on duality and the coincidentia oppositorum: the upper quote is Yogi Berra at his best, a koan worthy of a discourse by...
