I rarely get a chance to write about firearms, and I rarely want to, but kitup.military.com has just given me an opportunity. Choice quotes include, “… if you’re looking for something you can take home tonight, the gun for you is the Croatian RT20 20mm rifle. Developed to shoot the thermal sights off of Serbian …
From seattlepi.com, “In 1965, Schaller was part of an American spy team that tried to place a nuclear-powered surveillance device on top of Nanda Devi, one of the highest mountains in the world. That mission was a spectacular failure. The device and its nuclear core vanished along with, or so the CIA hoped, any news …
Music labels regularly pump-up the volume at the expense of quality. You might not know it, but this affects most platforms; from satellite radio to mp3 players. The IEEE takes a crack at explaining this phenomenon, of course there is a bit of FUD involved; “But the loudness war could be doing more than simply …
Ouch, looks like someone had to steal from the sixth stanza of the Ranger Creed in order to find a descent book title. Regardless, Lone Survivor looks like a pretty good read. The SEALs discussed their options — tie up the herders and take them along, tie them up and leave them, or to kill …
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It looks like Linux hackers had to do what Palm has been promising for years now; release Linux for the Palm platform. If I had seen this coming, I probably wouldn’t have moved to Microsoft’s Smartphone OS. Of course, if I had known how bad the Smartphone OS was going to be, I probably would’ve …