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The Atlantic Monthly | December 2004 : Will Iran Be Next? by James Fallows

emmineb — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 08:41:33 GMT

Soldiers, spies, and diplomats conduct a classic Pentagon war game—with sobering results

The day I almost led the Iraqi army - Salon

emmineb — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:38:10 GMT

Right after the fall of Baghdad, hundreds of desperate disbanded troops asked me -- a middle-aged journalist -- to give them jobs. That's when I knew everything was going terribly wrong. When people ask me what went so wrong in Iraq, as they frequently do after learning that I reported from there early in the war, I offer a glib reply: "Let me tell you about the day I almost led the Iraqi army." Then I commence my very strange story, one that never fails to amuse, bewilder and ultimately dishearten anyone who has ever wondered why combat that was supposed to end on May 1, 2003 -- you know, "Mission Accomplis

the Economist: China and the internet: The party, the people and the power of cyber-talk

emmineb — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 07:33:34 GMT

see also openneyinitiative.net on the great firewall of china

The Gwigle Game: Can you figure out what is being Googled for by looking at the results?

emmineb — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 09:10:52 GMT

google test

The Heritage of the Great War / The Great War in Color - 6

emmineb — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:34:03 GMT

WWI colour pics <>

The Joel Test 12 Steps to Better Code - Joel on Software

emmineb — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 13:27:43 GMT

The Joel Test 1. Do you use source control? 2. Can you make a build in one step? 3. Do you make daily builds? 4. Do you have a bug database? 5. Do you fix bugs before writing new code? 6. Do you have an up-to-date schedule? 7. Do you have a spec? 8. Do programmers have quiet working conditions? 9. Do you use the best tools money can buy? 10. Do you have testers? 11. Do new candidates write code during their interview? 12. Do you do hallway usability testing?

The Long Tail - Why the future of business is selling less of more

emmineb — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:57:50 GMT

Wired editor Anderson declares the death of "common culture"—and insists that it's for the best. Why don't we all watch the same TV shows, like we used to? Because not long ago, "we had fewer alternatives to compete for our screen attention," he writes. Smash hits have existed largely because of scarcity: with a finite number of bookstore shelves and theaters and Wal-Mart CD racks, "it's only sensible to fill them with the titles that will sell best." Today, Web sites and online retailers offer seemingly infinite inventory, and the result is the "shattering of the mainstream into a zillion different cultural shards." These "countless niches" are market opportunities for those who cast a wide net and de-emphasize the

The Long Wave

emmineb — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 10:35:16 GMT

The maps from the Voyages Extraordinaies

emmineb — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:00:39 GMT

On this page you will find scans of all the maps that were included in the original editions of Jules Verne’s novels. Apart from the original maps as published in the Hetzel editions, I have also received a number of maps in exactly the same style, but in another language, or with some minor differences. I keep these other maps on a different page. The majority of these maps use the meridian of Paris as prime meridian.

The New York Review of Books: Conspicuous Proliferation: War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to

emmineb — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 20:26:23 GMT

our revolutions in warfare since 1500 around which Max Boot chose to organize his book. It ends in a fog of acronyms for weapons still on the drawing boards, uncertainty about future military revolutions, and "The Danger of Too Much Change—and Too Little." In between Boot found many persuasive things to say about how changes in military technology and management affected the course of European and world history, illustrating each of his military revolutions with detailed accounts of three specific battles or campaigns.