The BBC reports on a Pentagon document detailing the US military’s approach to ‘information warfare’ (PDF format). A little quote:

From influencing public opinion through new media to designing “computer network attack” weapons, the US military is learning to fight an electronic war.

Continue reading “Don’t believe everything that you read/watch/hear…”

Interesting snippet from PhysOrg.com. Seems that a journalist (from the UKs own ‘News of the World’, no less) is concerned that the internet diet of audio and video snippets could annihilate all literary culture and produce a society that revolves around mythology and folkloric symbolism… Continue reading “Towards an oral pseudo-medieval society…thanks to the internet”

Here’s a link for the PC obsessives among you. I like a bit of bling in my machine…I don’t own a car, and my PC is probably the most expensive thing I own. So I like it to look a bit fly - expressing my individuality, you know.

But compared to some folk out there, my PC is a pedestrian box indeed. Thanks to a link from the mighty BoingBoing, I now connect you to an article about a guy who built a PC into a frame made of copper plumbing pipes. Continue reading “Open-frame Copper-pipe Case-mod”

My name is Armchair Anarchist, and I am a cynic. Continue reading “The Brin Exercise for Reinstating Humility”

A bright fellow called Nova Spivak has come up with an idea that I wish I had the intelligence to articulate in the same way. Continue reading “I am the eye that sees itself…”

Professor David Macmillan of the University of Melbourne has done a lot of research on crayfish (or ‘yabbies’, as they are known Down Under) and NASA has been applying some of his results to the design of autonomous space exploration robots. Continue reading “Crayfish Space-Robots Are Go!”

Anyone who has read this here blog of mine a few times, or (even less likely) had a chat with me in meatspace about the future, will have run into a few references to a thing called ‘the Singularity’. Continue reading “Beginner’s Guide to Kurzweil’s Singularity”

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways… Continue reading “The similarities between love and madness may not be simply a fiction of poetry”

OK, this one is a bit left-field and tenuous (so far), but a fascinating idea, especially to a Science Fiction nerd such as myself. Continue reading “Parasites Altering Behaviour In Humans?”

Surely not…but a post at PhysOrg.net would appear to support this ‘crazy’ idea. Continue reading “US Middle East Policy based on outdated fears?”