Burton, who has since left the D.I.A., is not alone in his concern. Indeed, throughout the intelligence community, spies are beginning to wonder why their technology has fallen so far behind — and talk among themselves about how to catch up. Some of the country’s most senior intelligence thinkers have joined the discussion, and surprisingly, many of them believe the answer may lie in the interactive tools the world’s teenagers are using to pass around YouTube videos and bicker online about their favorite bands. Billions of dollars’ worth of ultrasecret data networks couldn’t help spies piece together the clues to the worst terrorist plot ever. So perhaps, they argue, it’ s time to try something radically different. Could blogs and wikis prevent the next 9/11?
tcm has a woody this afternoon with a clever segue from a peter sellers morning with whats new, pussycat?
one of the few nice things to come out of the war is the association between tom friedman and f.u. (as in fuck you).
Crazy Morphosis skyscraper going up in Paris. I really liked that there weren't any really tall buildings. I thought it made the city seem very manageable considering it's size. I guess everything has to change though.
hendricks farms & dairy
im out in bucks co again for a couple of days. any one want anything from here?
im out in bucks co again for a couple of days. any one want anything from here?
9 to 5 paintings creates images from the movement of your mouse during the day.
I got a recommendation to eat at Bayona in NOLA.
Any other recommendations? (I will be travelling with D, a lacto-ovo-vegetarian who refuses to believe that the lower mollusks are hard to distinguish from plants.)
Any other recommendations? (I will be travelling with D, a lacto-ovo-vegetarian who refuses to believe that the lower mollusks are hard to distinguish from plants.)
cupcake bake shop
One Punk Under God
Jay Bakker, the only son of TV evangelists Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye Messner, is the subject of this six-part observational documentary series from filmmaker Jeremy Simmons (“TransGeneration”). Veteran of a troubled adolescence, tattooed and pierced Jay now preaches God's grace and unconditional love to an alternative non-denominational congregation in Atlanta, which meets in a working bar.
Jay Bakker, the only son of TV evangelists Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye Messner, is the subject of this six-part observational documentary series from filmmaker Jeremy Simmons (“TransGeneration”). Veteran of a troubled adolescence, tattooed and pierced Jay now preaches God's grace and unconditional love to an alternative non-denominational congregation in Atlanta, which meets in a working bar.
How to carve a turkey.
party of joe
come back to the five and dime, robert altman, robert altman
Steve Allen, Jack Kerouac, interview / On the Road reading / piano noodling video.
Photo of Toronto in the clouds.
it was a word his mother used to use.
anybody ever hear of this lana turner lsd movie?
emergency baking ingredient substitutions
via USDA intranet
via USDA intranet
