The iPhone Exodus
With any luck, I'll be swapping out my Nokia N95 with an iPhone tomorrow. Rather than fight the mass crowds at the Apple store, I am likely to just hit the local AT&T store. I have some trepidation as the store seems very unprepared for the…
Total Intel on Homeland Defense Weekly podcast
Dan Verton's Homeland Defense Weekly interviewed some of the leadership team at…
Second Life Hawala
“I see this as a virtual version of the hawala or hundi system,” said Johnson, who heads risk management firm TRMG, referring to the informal money transfer network that is commonly used through the Middle East, Asia and Africa. “It’s trust based —…
We're already living in a future nobody anticipated
Science fiction authors are some of the most interesting people to watch with regards to futurism in the unparalleled completely unstructured sense. Charles Stross is no exception. Worth a read if you've got 10 minutes to spare today. Total…
Lions and tigers and terrorists....oh my!
Thanks for Haft of the Spear for the link. Steven Phillipsohn, a fraud litigation solicitor and chairman of the FAP's cybercrime working group, said: "There's nothing virtual about online crime, it is all too real. It is time government took this…
Think Different - The Reading List
In my home office, I have a preserved set of the Apple Think Different poster series as inspiration, but I realized that I did not have any books on my bookshelf about the individuals honored in this advertising campaign. I put together this list at…
Is this the VA Tech Shooter?
Early leads are pointing to this page as the alleged shooter for today. Either they are right, or this poor guy is about to go through media hell. Update: A new posting says he is not the shooter, was going to wait until he got adsense on his…
School shootings again
If you missed it the first time, this analysis is still worth checking out....Link---> This week always worries me: April 19 - Waco anniversary April 19 - OKC bombing April 20 - Colombine shooting
Bruce Sterling and William Gibson as Interpreted by the Brits...
I honestly believe that science fiction can provide some reasonably provocative insights into the future. It was William Gibson, after all, that gave us the term cyberspace. I also spend a lot of time thinking about emergent and disruptive…