We really shouldn’t wait until the smoking gun is a mushroom cloud, that is all I am saying: Chimpanzees living in the West African savannah have been observed fashioning deadly spears from sticks and using the tools to hunt small mammals—the first routine production of deadly weapons ever observed in animals other than humans. The …
Verification
by | 2007-02-21 | 1 Comment
Andreas Persbo at VERTIC has begun a very promising blog on verification titled, sensibly enough, Verification.
Disablement, A Tiny Clue
by | 2007-02-21 | 2 Comments
Maybe. I hear at least a few ideas have been kicked around for a while.
Disablement, Whatever That Means
by | 2007-02-19 | 10 Comments
Ah, the simple joys of cross-cultural communication. I was one of many observers struck by Condoleeza Rice’s awkward use of the term “disablement” to refer to an early phase in a process to “denuclearize” North Korea. Now, China Matters rails against difficult to translate words like “disablement” in place of straightforward terms such as cease, …
