Design by Force: The New Intelligence

Friday, May 12th, 2006 Posted in Essays | No Comments »

And so Bush appoints a be-medaled, NSA domestic spy program-defending, active-duty officer to head the CIA. Appointing an officer is not unprecedented, but this one is not free of that banana republic feeling. An emblazoned, heavy yes-man. In government, uniforms are a ...

Google vs. MicroZilla

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006 Posted in Of Interest | No Comments »

Google is cagey about its strategy. When Netscape was flying high, some of its executives talked of making Microsoft irrelevant — a strategic blunder, according to Silicon Valley lore. Google is much more than an indexing service, and it's unclear that ...