Yesterday, on the 19th of December at 9 PM GMT, a drone overflight shut down Gatwick airport, the UK's second busiest, stranding tens of thousands of holiday travellers. Six additional overflights ...

Facebook just declared war against "disruptive" information. In addition to hundreds of new human censors, they are training AI censors capable of identifying and deleting 'unacceptable' information ...

Some random items of interest (I put today's date on yesterdays links, so I'm just going to continue to add to them today, sorry for any duplication): ...

Question: Does this resonate? Or does it fall flat? Before you were born, your life was planned out for you. You would go to school all the way through college. Get a job with a good company that ...

Open source war is a byproduct of globalization. It different than conventional guerrilla warfare in that the guerrillas don't have a center of gravity (a unifying ideology). In open source war, the ...

With no takers on a peace keeping force it will be up to the US to save Israel's bacon. The 82nd Airborne is on tap to be sent. However, that won't work since Hezbollah won't comply. Their guerrillas ...

The most important result of the reduction of the Fallujah TAZ was the decimation of Iraq's security. From all perspectives, the global guerrilla campaign against the Iraqi security system has been an ...

"If we drive out or expel this company [Blackwater] immediately there will be a security vacuum..." Iraqi government spokesman to Reuters. An inconvenient truth missing in the debate over Blackwater ...

Very real possibility now. Edging towards the likely category. Forget the worries about nationalizing the assets of failed firms. Forget the national debt. This is crunch time. Do or die for the ...

Tim O'Reilly posts a map of what he thinks Web 2.0 looks like. Not sure if this makes sense. Very confused thinking. I think this is one of those things where you "had to be there" to understand. Not ...

Very interesting interchange between Rumsfeld and General Pace: "It is absolutely the responsibility of every U.S. service member, if they see inhumane treatment being conducted, to intervene to stop ...

Elaine Grossman details some of the issues surrounding the Casey plan. She also quotes Col Krepinevich, who recently made waves with his call for an oil spot strategy in Foreign Affairs, locking ...