An Object Lesson in Globalization

Ambassador Chas Freeman's discourse on US Manufacturing and Globalization:

http://www.twq.com/09winter/docs/09jan_Freeman.pdf

Free Book on Topos Theory

A topos is a category with:

• Finite limits and co-limits,
• Exponentials,
• A subobject classifier.

The following book is now available for free online: Toposes, Triples and Theories by Michael Barr and Charles Wells.

Artificial Intuition

http://artificial-intuition.com

Venice Under Water

Autopia: A Tale of Two Bailouts

Former IBM top technologist and Sloan Foundation President emeritus Ralph Gomory has a provocative think-piece up at Huffington Post today titled "Autopia: A Tale of Two Bailouts."

Northern Lights

Northern Lights over Yellow Knife Canada:

And Fire Rainbow over the Idaho-Washington Border

Free Philosophy Book

The complete text of "Representation and Invariance of Scientific Structures" by Patrick Suppes may be found @ http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/pdf/1575863332.rissbook.pdf.

This book covers issues of axiomatic method, representation, invariance, probability, mechanics, and language, including research on brain-wave representations of words and sentences using set theoretic methods.

Great Recessions - Lessons Learned from Japan

Richard C. Koo, the chief economist of Nomura Research Institute, discussed the lessons learned from Japan's "lost decade" during a presentation at CSIS.

Koo suggested that government stimulus can play a key role in alleviating the problems of a balance sheet recession. Koo's recent book, "The Holy Grail of Macroeconomics: Lessons from Japan's Great Recession", discusses these issues in greater detail.

His presentation may be found @ http://www.csis.org/media/csis/events/081029_japan_koo.pdf

More details are @ http://www.csis.org/component/option,com_csis_events/task,view/id,1828/

Computer Demonstration

This is a computer demonstration that was done 40 years ago!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8734787622017763097

Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency

The CSIS Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency has released its final report, "Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency."

The Commission’s 3 major findings are:

1. Cybersecurity is now one of the major national security problems facing the United States;
2. Decisions and actions must respect American values related to privacy and civil liberties; and
3. Only a comprehensive national security strategy that embraces both the domestic and international aspects of cybersecurity will improve the situation.

The report may be found @ http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/081208_securingcyberspace_44.pdf

Visio Cafe

Share your Visio shapes with the world - Free!

http://www.visiocafe.com/

50 CSS Tools

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/12/09/50-really-useful-css-tools/

1936 Stainless Steel Ford

This is the 1936 Ford Tudor Sedan built for and owned by Allegheny Ludlum Steel. This is 1 of only 4 in existence and is the only one currently in running & in road worthy condition - the v-8 engine delivering max 85 HP . All 4 cars each had over 200,000 miles on them before they removed them from service.

Super Organism

A new book on insect societies:

The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies by Bert Holldobler and Edward O. Wilson

Salary Sites

A few useful salary sites:

www.salary.com

www.indeed.com/salary

www.salaryexpert.com

www.glassdoor.com

B-29 Bomber

If you have not seen this before, you have got to watch it. Truly amazing. A home-made B-29 bomber, and it works. The skill, time and effort that has gone into this. http://users.skynet.be/fa926657/files/B29.wmv

The Venus Project

Yet another Utopian attempt "that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture" as if the various such attempts since the European Enlightenment have not been enough. I wonder how many millions of human beings have to be killed this time.

May Providence protect us from them and their ilk!

http://www.thevenusproject.com/index.html