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There was a apparently recently a highest-possible level meeting of Chinese Communist Party officials, worrying about the security of the most sensitive of government documents– what happens if there’s a day of reckoning and these documents come out, wikileaks style? This caused online speculation about what events would be most interesting to those focused on modern Chinese [...]
Colonel Lawrence Sellin, a reserve officer in Afghanistan, was fired for publicly editorializing about his hatred of PowerPoint and how it is used at the command level in the army. Folks may remember my personal dislike of PowerPoint, and the slide above that was sent ’round the net as an example of the perniciousness of Army PowerPoint presentations (I thought I’d blogged about that slide, but can’t find the post…) As an aside, this sounds to my son-in-law, who was an enlisted man in both Afganistan and Iraq about what officers do… In any event, Col. Sellin has written a series of editorials for UPI. Here’s what Col. Sellin had to say about PowerPoint:
The New York Times has a really remarkable look at recovery in the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans since Katrina (above is a partial screen shot), based on research by Anthony Curtis, a professor at USC. His research involves gathering video evidence of changes in the neighborhood; what the NY Times has up on its [...] [...] This is a Maltese Cross mechanism, the gear that is used to turn the second hand on a clock. It’s part of a series of “Simple animations of complex mechanisms.” h/t [...] Wednesday night, there’s going to be a documentary on Frontline on PBS about police shootings in New Orleans after Katrina: In recent months, a team of reporters from The Times-Picayune, PBS Frontline, and ProPublica, have examined department leaders’ conduct as part of a broader look at police shootings after Hurricane Katrina. A documentary drawn from that work airs [...] … (known to followers of the Mississippi blogosphere as Bellesouth, among other noms-de guerre d’insultes) as we leave a restaurant in Jackson en route from Ocean Springs to Oxford. A Jackson lawyer (and reader of my blog) passes by, noting my wife is speaking with raised voice into her cell phone, and I attempt to explain– that Bellesouth has worked through our office voice mail system to the off-hours emergency number and arrived at my wife’s cell phone. And called to threaten that she is going to call the law on me. Startled or confused? Read on. This post has a subtitle: How I Spent My Summer Vacation Sometimes being a blogger is a thankless task. Alma “Bellesouth” Evans has demanded a correction, or something, and so what she is going to get is an account of the last couple of days, for all to see. Those who don’t follow comments on my blog, or who have had all the Bellesouth fun their life requires, should not bother with clicking on the fold. Those who care can read on. But this is a long one. Continue reading So we get this phone call from Alma Evans of Natchez, Mississippi… Eric Etheridge has apparently spent some of death week hanging out with Elvis imitators, and I found the above resemblance disconcerting; it took me a moment to place it. Check out his posted images, and you’ll see one that looks [...] Through a link on iPhoneJD, I saw a list of Lifehacker’s favorite iphone apps. The list by and large didn’t catch my attention, except one app: A $2.99 app designed to do panorama photographs. The app is called Pano, and this morning I got it and decided to check it out, first at home (the last picture), [...] |
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