Russell showed this wildly disturbing video yesterday. It's a simulation, but let's be crystal clear that what is depicted is an act of murder.

"The fighter was detectable by antique radar operating at wavelengths of 2 meters - a detail that had supposedly escaped the Stealth designers, who operated on the assumption that the plane would only have to be invisible to modern centimeter and millimet

"Not Safe For Work"? WTF. People need to see these pictures.

Read this *now*. Incredible reporting from Afghanistan's Korengal Valley: a US Army company is tasked with the unreasonable, verging on the obscenely irresponsible.

Not surprising, just disgusting.

For that other project.

Foreign Office's impeccable media and interface imaginings for "Children of Men." Only Britain soldiers on...

Nic swats it out of the park here. Elliot Spitzer, are you listening?

Kunstler must've gotten up on the right side of the bed this morning. This here is him at or pretty close to his best.

Via Jones. I think this is a very generous reading of a deeply problematic film (which, nonetheless, I've managed to see no fewer than three times in the two months it's been out)

How many different "Web2.0" tropes can the Times pack into one piece? The wisdom of crowds, the power of data visualization, open source collaboration, it's all in here...

Friday, April 21, 1944