Jessica Alba, riding a police hover drone.
Among tech journalists, BlackBerry is considered to be “old-fashioned, lame, commoditized technology,” as Mike Butcher, the blogger and digital adviser in London puts it. But BBM is private, decentralized, blindingly fast, and—most important—ubiquitous. My colleague Robert Capps has called this phenomenon the Good Enough Revolution (issue 17.09), though I doubt he [continued...]
Bill Wasik, Wired magazine, December 2011, #Riot: Self-Organized, Hyper-Networked Revolts—Coming to a City Near You
LinklogAccording to Reuters the Pentagon is spamming Iraqis urging them not follow orders to use chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons.
Sigh. So based on what we know about typical unsolicited email response rates: for every ten thousand key Iraqis mailed one won’t follow orders, 9999 will go ahead and use said weapons against US troops anyway.
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