Friday 6/15/2007 – 8:01 am
“It’s a good thing they’re dumb” used to be something county sheriffs said about would-be bank robbers. Bruce Shneier points out that this is also true of would-be terrorists in his brilliant article,
Portrait of the modern terrorist as an idiot
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Monday 6/11/2007 – 8:39 pm
In his Worldwide Developers Conference keynote address today, Steve Jobs announced the public beta of Safari 3 for Windows. This left some people at work scratching their heads and focusing on two questions: 1) Does Jobs think he’ll bite off a meaningful chunk of Windows browser market share with this move? 2) Does he […]
Thursday 6/7/2007 – 4:00 pm
I recently returned from our division’s National Sales Meeting, a week-long conference wherein the sales staff are pumped full of excitement about current and coming products, told the final results for the fiscal year, trained and role-played until they are worn down to little sales nubs, and then feted heavily to both thank them for […]
Friday 6/1/2007 – 9:03 am
Crossposted from my comment at
Metacool
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Close! Black LOWERS the Earth’s albedo (reflectivity). Good thoughts, even so. Black cars also consume more energy via air conditioning, and need to be washed more often.
Even more important to the air conditioning problem is the amount of heat accepted an stored by the materials in the cabin that […]