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A Surfeit of Eels - Office of Naval Research
"Now we're almost to the point where theoretically we could begin building whole platoons of robotic lampreys and putting them on operational maneuvers in the water."
robots  lampreys  eels  doom  war 
5 weeks ago by ignatz
untitled poem by ee cummings
poetry  eecummings  politics  war  from notes
february 2012 by ignatz
Keeping an eye on Israel and Iran via shortwave MT Shortwave Central)
via:googlereader  via:MT  Shortwave  Central  radio  politics  war 
february 2012 by ignatz
Author Q&A: 'The Insurgency in Chechnya and the North Caucasus' - NYTimes.com
war  doom  nytimes  chechnya 
january 2012 by ignatz
Don’t Believe the WMD Hype in ‘SEAL Target Geronimo’ | Danger Room | Wired.com
Chuck Pfarrer's journalism is state sponsored horseshit.
history  propaganda  war  iraq  wot  wmd 
november 2011 by ignatz
Final Salute : News : The Rocky Mountain News
powerful report on the war dead
journalism  photos  war  pulitzer 
november 2011 by ignatz
Stanislav Petrov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
a retired lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces who deviated from standard Soviet protocol by correctly identifying a missile attack warning as a false alarm on September 26, 1983
nuclear  history  war 
september 2011 by ignatz
dapper kid: After The Rapture
art  war 
september 2011 by ignatz
Conflict History | 1250-1254
mapping of historic wars
geo  gis  googlemaps  gmaps  history  war  visualization 
september 2011 by ignatz
The Schmidle Muddle of the Osama Bin Laden Take Down — Registan.net
new yorker story is at best wobbly
via:maciej  failure  journalism  war  propaganda 
august 2011 by ignatz
Inside the Ghost Ships of the Mothball Fleet | Beyond the Photos
For decades, dozens of forgotten Navy and merchant ships have been corroding in Suisun Bay, 30 miles northeast of San Francisco.
history  photography  ships  navy  war 
june 2011 by ignatz
Listening for the Enemy: Giant Ears on the British Coast - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
The enormous concrete shells are as tall as a house, and they were designed to listen for enemy aircraft in the 1920s and 30s.
architecture  war  acoustics  wwii  sound 
june 2011 by ignatz
N.Tel – What’s It All Mean?
"New Balance looks at the military as a group of athletes"
war  marketing  commerce  advertising 
january 2011 by ignatz
All-Seeing Blimp Could Be Afghanistan’s Biggest Brain
airships  doom  oppression  war  surveillance  rover 
january 2011 by ignatz
Afghanistan: The war logs | World news | guardian.co.uk
big leak of secret info about the afghanistan war
afghanistan  war  wikileaks  expose  usa 
july 2010 by ignatz
Tibor Rubin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
hungarian jew holocaust survivor medal of honor recipient and also a pretty nice guy
history  war  holocaust  koreanwar 
july 2010 by ignatz
Soldier Portraits
19th century style wet plate photos of current soldiers
art  war  history  photography 
april 2010 by ignatz
The Making of the Military’s Standard Arms, Part II - At War Blog - NYTimes.com
firearms  guns  war  usa  military  m4 
january 2010 by ignatz
Trench Literature – Reading in World War I - AbeBooks
What did soldiers read in the Great War?
war  literature  writing  history  wwi 
november 2009 by ignatz
The Horror, the Horror: Afghanistan Edition (SWJ Blog)
oh dear, it's Lawrence of Afghanistan
afghanistan  colonialism  war  failure 
november 2009 by ignatz
Video: Hardware Hackers Build $250 Puke Ray Gun
I will mount one on my car.
weapons  war  nonlethal  guerilla  diy 
september 2009 by ignatz
What’s Wrong with Israel’s EyeBall Bot?
“Oftentimes, the EyeBall, when thrown, lands behind a piece of furniture in the room, like a couch or a bed, and can’t see anything."
war  weapons  doomed  robots  eyeballs  throwbot  gadgets  failure  dangerroom 
july 2009 by ignatz
The American Gunmaker: John M. Browning
Yes, it's a comic book about the life and work of the world's greatest gun maker.
browning  guns  cartoons  comics  history  wtf  m1911  BAR  weapons  war  yikes 
july 2009 by ignatz
Black Budget Blows by $50B || Ares Homepage
The secret budget is larger than many countries' entire defense budget.
via:thepouncer  government  military  money  secrecy  war 
may 2009 by ignatz
Counterterrorism Blog: Demise of the Tamil Tigers? Perhaps, but an Appreciation
"There is not a terrorist organization in the world that has not adopted LTTE tactics or at least aspired to do so." The Tamil Tigers are the Velvet Underground of terrorism
war  history  terrorism  srilanka  tamiltigers  ltte 
february 2009 by ignatz
Air Force to Unleash 'Gorgon Stare' on Squirting Insurgents | Danger Room from Wired.com
By next year, 10 Reaper unmanned aircraft should have a Gorgon Stare sensor, which will film an area, two-and-a-half miles around, from 12 different angles.
war  military  drones  surveillance  panopticon 
february 2009 by ignatz
Video: Iran Launches Satellite, Allegedly (Updated) | Danger Room from Wired.com
Looks like they got something into orbit.
war  doom  space  iran  satellites  missiles 
february 2009 by ignatz
Dr. A. Q. Khan - Personal Home Page
The autohagiographic web site of Pakistan's nuclear scientist and international proliferator.
villainy  war  nuclearweapons  weird  wmd  pakistan  aqkhan 
january 2009 by ignatz
Al Jazeera Creative Commons Repository
Al Jazeera has a creative commons licensed repository of media from Gaza
video  news  war  archives  creativecommons  aljazeera 
january 2009 by ignatz
Ares: Where The Raptors Roam
"The last Pacific deployment, [...] was marred when the jets' navigational software crashed as they crossed zero degrees of longitude. "
failure  usa  war  aviation  f22 
january 2009 by ignatz
Ernest Hardy | Blood Beats: Motown / Brandy / Peace
Ernest Hardy on soul music, social justice, Mark Twain, and murder.
civilrights  music  race  war  soul  glbt  justice  marktwain 
january 2009 by ignatz
Northrop Unveils Bitchin' Bomber-Cycle | Danger Room from Wired.com
Novelty motorcycle built to commemorate the 20th anniversary of weapon of mass destruction.
failure  commerce  villainy  usa  toys  advertising  war  weapons  motorcycles  b-2 
january 2009 by ignatz
U.S. Losing 'Secret' War in Somalia | Danger Room from Wired.com
The best wars are the undeclared ones that you don't hear much about.
usa  war  gwot  somalia  ethiopia 
december 2008 by ignatz
Air Force Flunks Another Nuke Inspection? | Danger Room from Wired.com
"In May, the 5th Bomb Wing at Minot Air Force Base flunked its test, when security personnel couldn't be bothered to stop playing videogames on their cellphones."
failure  usa  war  nuclear  usaf  wmd 
december 2008 by ignatz
Weaponized Sentry-Tech Towers Protecting Hot Borders
remote controlled droid tower with sensors, machine guns, missiles
robots  doom  war 
december 2008 by ignatz
Multi-Purpose Mini Robotic Platform
Smallish death robot. Carries rockets that kill at 30 meters and can hop over a 1 meter obstacle.
robots  war  weapons  doom 
december 2008 by ignatz
Pentagon hires British scientist to help build robot soldiers that 'won't commit war crimes' - Telegraph
Someone who has read too much Asimov wants to use robots to avoid violating the Geneva conventions.
robotics  robots  war  sf  failure 
december 2008 by ignatz
Analysis: Mumbai attack differs from past terror strikes - The Long War Journal
some detail and analysis about the mumbai attacks
terrorism  war  india  news 
november 2008 by ignatz
Pandora's Box Opened Wide: Micro Unmanned Air Vehicles Carrying Genetic Weapons
Biomimetics, and genetic research may enable the creation of very small (inch or less) MAVs carrying powerful and precise genetic weapons, possibly within twenty years
war  biologicalwarfare  usaf  uav  doom  biowar 
november 2008 by ignatz
Triple Canopy
Way scarier than Blackwater, just a lot less notorious.
war  military  pmc  mercenaries  security  spook 
october 2008 by ignatz
How We Lost the War We Won : Rolling Stone
Reporter spends some quality time with the Taliban.
war  taliban  news  afghanistan  gwot  rollingstone 
october 2008 by ignatz
Nerf N-Strike Product Demo
nerf assault rifle with illuminated target designator, flip-up sight, clip fed
nerf  toys  war  guns  yes  raygun  via:ethan_t_hein 
october 2008 by ignatz
News: Disabled vets falls and no one will help him up
Man can't make it home from the doctor and ends up lying on the street half conscious for four hours. Cops, 911 dispatch, CHP, bystanders do nothing. Go O.C.!
orangecounty  failure  villainy  war  medicine  veterans  grimmeathookfuture  gaaaah 
september 2008 by ignatz
Giant Blimp-Builders Keep Airship Dream Alive | Danger Room from Wired.com
Will the giant blimp finally be made?
blimp  lighterthanair  airship  technology  war  defense  usa  walrus 
september 2008 by ignatz
NATIONAL GUARD WARRIOR | DALE EARNHARDT JR. AND KID ROCK
Kid Rock and Junior team up... for America!
politics  war  no  americafuckyeah  video  advertising  empiresindecline 
september 2008 by ignatz
knoxnews.com | Frank Munger's Atomic City Underground
Local blog about Oak Ridge National Laboratory and related nuke "fun"
nuclear  energy  nuclearweapons  war  commerce  news  blog  environment 
september 2008 by ignatz
Geopolitical WTF: The Georgian Crisis
Five articles on the Caucasus, Russia, Georgia and the recent war, with geopolitical background.
blog  russia  georgia  caucasus  war  history  geo  lj  politics 
september 2008 by ignatz
Caucasus Belli : Guerre Georgie / Ossétie du Sud - Russie - a set on Flickr
war  photos  caucasus  georgia  russia  flickr 
august 2008 by ignatz
Los Angeles CityBeat - Our Bad War in Afghanistan
afghanistan  war  tedrall 
august 2008 by ignatz
Annals of National Security: Preparing the Battlefield: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
Once again Hersh scares the pants off us all with a piece on the Bushies and Iran
politics  iran  war  usa  newyorker  seymourhersh 
june 2008 by ignatz
INSIDE TERRORISM | X-RAYPROJECT
x-rays of people injured by terrorist attacks, mostly improvised bombs
terrorism  photography  art  medicine  radiography  x-rays  war 
april 2008 by ignatz
slacktivist: Cleaning the lake
The nauseating history of US Rwanda policy
rwanda  politics  war  usa  genocide  villainy 
april 2008 by ignatz
Art: First-Person Shooter Turns Political
Your chance to shoot an iraqi with paintballs, watch him shoot the President, or waterboard a dog. For ART!
politics  art  war  iraq  paintball  videogames  bilal 
march 2008 by ignatz
Who Is IOZ?: Burn like a fire, blaze like fire in Cairo
What they said: the arrogance of empire.
empire  war  kosovo  failure  via:agitprop80 
march 2008 by ignatz
spaceoctopus: George Bush and I visited Albania around
Why ARE we so interested in Kosovo's independence? Well...
kosovo  albania  politics  usa  oil  russia  war  coldwar 
march 2008 by ignatz
Heavy Metal in Baghdad
heavy metal band hits Iraq
music  documentary  iraq  war  metal 
march 2008 by ignatz
USS Winooski (AO-38) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
dad's ship
family  war  navy  ships 
march 2008 by ignatz
Why We Fight
documentary on US war machine and money
googlevideo  movie  war  usa  politics  economics  militaryindustrialcomplex 
february 2008 by ignatz
Subtopia: MOUT Urbanism - (Military Operation on Urban Terrain)
Large-scale city simulators for the oppressive occupying armies of the near future
military  architecture  urban  simulation  war  oppression  warfare  via:regine 
february 2008 by ignatz
SHADOW PLAY | Thirteen/WNET
website for documentary about Indonesian coup
indonesia  war  politics  history  coup 
february 2008 by ignatz
BBC World Service | Tale of the "Tigers"
BBC program about the Indonesian coup
indonesia  history  1965  coup  war  politics 
february 2008 by ignatz
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iraq 'reverse surge' plays on US minds
"US commanders are reluctant to allow the backward momentum of the reverse-surge process to merge seamlessly into a wholesale withdrawal of American forces"
military  politics  propaganda  war  orwell  doublespeak  newspeak  surge  failure  usa 
february 2008 by ignatz
Army Seeks "Professional Celebrity Rock Music Band" | Danger Room from Wired.com
Famous rock band needed for war zone. Please note specs.
music  popularmusic  war  usa  ha  musicbusiness  celebrities  failure 
january 2008 by ignatz
Top Ten Myths about Iraq 2007
iraq  media  politics  usa  war 
december 2007 by ignatz
Gorilla’s Guides
good blog from Iraq covering events in English and Arabic. very opinionated in a good way
iraq  journalism  war  news  blog 
november 2007 by ignatz
Pentagon Forecast: Cloudy, 80% Chance of Riots | Danger Room from Wired.com
U.S. Military hires eggheads to predict social unrest
sociology  socialnetworking  war  defense  usa  forecasting  failure  socialnetworktheory  politics  oppression  doh 
november 2007 by ignatz
Anthropology Association Condemns Human Terrain System | Danger Room from Wired.com
Anthro association not happy about anthropology at war
anthropology  sociology  war  science  ethics  usa  hts  humanterrainsystem  socialnetworking 
november 2007 by ignatz
BBC NEWS | Americas | US army enlists anthropologists
Anthropologists being recruited to analyze social networks for the army
science  sociology  socialnetworking  war  usa  anthropology  counterinsurgency  iraq  afghanistan 
october 2007 by ignatz
Roomba-Maker Unveils Kill-Bot on Danger Room
roomba now making killbot
roomba  doomba  robots  robotholocaust  war  death  gadgets 
october 2007 by ignatz
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
journalism  war 
october 2007 by ignatz
Northrop Grumman unveils new ... er ... comic book?
military  comics  war  advertising  marketing  defense  usa 
september 2007 by ignatz
Facing a draft, Nugent bravely wet his pants
via:positivejeff  war  chickenhawks  christwhatanasshole  tednugent  ha 
august 2007 by ignatz
Defense Review - Hyper-Lethal Mini Robotic Attack Helicopter with Turbine Engine Debuts
I'm scared pant-less. Also I want one.
robots  robotholocaust  aircraft  war  grimmeathookfuture  commerce  villainy  drone  dystopia 
august 2007 by ignatz
BLDGBLOG: The Island of Forgotten Diseases
Let's all go to the previous Soviet biowarfare training zone!
tourism  biologicalwarfare  war  russia  doom  biowarfare  military  wasteland 
august 2007 by ignatz
MT Milcom Monitoring Blog: Feng Yun 1C Debris Update - Over 2000 Objects Officially Catalogued
Thanks for the space trash, China!
space  china  satellites  warfare  war  asat  missiles  spacetrash 
july 2007 by ignatz
What Happened on June 26?
the drumbeat of war, or a mistake?
conspiracy  military  usa  government  radio  war  eep 
july 2007 by ignatz
LA Observed: Dr. Laura 'takes a break'
Dr. Laura is in an appropriate amount of trouble, this time because of the war and her typically suave remarks.
trainwreck  trainwrecks  drlaura  war  news  celebrities  villainy  christwhatanasshole  lauraschlessinger  jerks 
may 2007 by ignatz
Darfur Documentary Benefit
darfur  benefits  sf  film  charity  politics  war  villainy 
may 2007 by ignatz
TomDispatch - Tomgram: Adam Hochschild, Over the Top in Iraq
Parallels between the current "surge" and the big push of the Great War
war  iraq  history  wwi  worldwarone  waronterror  usa  hubris  doom 
january 2007 by ignatz
Military Folding Bicycles & Folding Bike Accessories by Montague
Mil-spec... bikes? Chaaaarge
bicycling  bicycles  bikes  usa  military  war  wtf  what  defense 
january 2007 by ignatz
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