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 [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2007
Catastrophe on Nand Devi
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
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 [...]
The War on Music
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
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 [...]
Lone Survivor
Monday, August 13, 2007
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 [...]
Linux on the Palm
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
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 [...]