by Charles Cameron | Mar 19, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — this post is mostly concerned with unintended consequences in foreign policy, not Berndnaut Smilde‘s intended and dramatic clouds, but hey! ] . Nimbus Sankt Peter, 2014. Artist: Berndnaut Smilde ** Obama said in an interview on Vice...
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 15, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — even after death, snakes can bite you — plus a quick look at someone Baghdadi may have termed an “effeminate pilot” ] . Major Mariam Al Mansouri, first female UAE's pilot who took part in the strikes against #ISIS...
by Brian Lam | Oct 1, 2014 | Monitor
This epic video isn’t a CGI outtake from Lord of the Rings. It’s proof that a guy with a quadcopter managed to get very, very close to an erupting Icelandic volcano—close enough to melt the face of the GoPro camera that shot the video. The post Incredible...
by Charles Cameron | Aug 27, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — an important post with notes for Hagel & Dempsey, also my own thoughts on overlapping eschatologies ] . Moiré effect from Marvic Textiles bois-de-rose ** Tim Furnish has a significant piece out today on his MahdiWatch blog, ISIS:...
