Archive for the 'News' Category

I For One Hail Our Future Quadrotor Overlords….

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

This is both very cool and a bit terrifying really.

Getting Medieval

Friday, January 27th, 2012

I love the English, the are some of the nicest calmest people I have ever met, but when they do get angry the really get angry. Got medieval on him for sure. I always love watching the BBC seesaw between ‘Cat Stuck in Tree’ type stories and the beheadings.

Two Types of Grownups

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

I often say one of the big problems in DC is the lack of grown ups but following the SOPA/PIPA debate yesterday I realized I have been wrong. DC has grown ups, it just has the wrong kind. I see there being two types of grown ups, the good ones are the ones who take [...]

Scaling Problems

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

Patents have a huge scaling problem. The fine folks at Frugal Dad put together a great graphic that demonstrates the issues, but the bottom line is that the patent system couldn’t scale when they allowed concepts to be patented. People have a lot of ideas, many of them may be impractical today, but everyone rushed [...]

An Entire American Food Group In Peril!

Monday, January 9th, 2012

This is serious business here, an entire American food group is in peril. If we can bail out the car companies and the banks we would be crazy to do nothing here. People will starve! This was half my food in college.

Lessons In Indefinite Detention of US Citizens

Monday, January 2nd, 2012

The President signed into law the indefinite detention of US citizens by the US military, he said he has some objections, but signed the law anyway. If he were not lying there is an easy and quick way to end this nonsense. Detain every sponsor of the bill immediately and hold them until the law [...]