-- If there was success in Iraq and no blogosphere, would anyone in the East Coast power corridor know? Probably not. The Washington Post tries to fix that with an admirable editorial praising the move toward provinicial elections in Iraq.
-- Awesome DARPA funding announcement and call for proposals. To wit:
1. They want someone to discover a mathematical model of brain.
2. They want to "harness stochastity" in nature. I didn't even know that was theoretically possible.
3. New fluid dynamics for stuff like foam and gel.
4. Solve the Riemann Hypothesis, which the announcement calls the "Holy Grail of number theory."
Read all 23 challenges. It got me giddy just thinking about the prospect of the U.S. defense forces' best minds pondering such inconceivable stuff.
(H/T: Wired's Danger Blog (please change your name to Danger Blog. It would be awesome.))
-- More trouble off the Somali coast. This time, they got tanks. What are they going to do with them? Take off the treads and outfit their 15-foot boats with a 125mm cannon? That's something I'd want to see.
Read Information Dissemination for great analysis of the Somali coast.
-- Popular Mechanics has 10 questions for the foreign policy debate tonight. Good stuff, which means it won't get asked.
On the Danger Blog (see, Wired? It just sounds better.) link, some have posted their own questions in the comment section. This one made me giggle:
Amen, brother.
I'll post some of my own questions later today.
-- Coming soon: Awesome gun. Heinlein would be proud, Army.
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