After some adventures in pagination, I successfully submitted the final copy of the dissertation, The Minimum Means of Reprisal: China’s Search for Security in the Nuclear Age, today. For my defense, I dispensed with a powerpoint presentation. Edward Tufte, in The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint. I think that the handout, which remains a work in …
New Assessment of Cuban BW Effort
by | 2004-09-18 | No Comments
The lead paragraph of “In Stricter Study, U.S. Scales Back Claim on Cuba Arms” in the New York Times (September 17, 2004) leads: The Bush administration, using stringent standards adopted after the failure to find banned weapons in Iraq, has conducted a new assessment of Cuba’s biological weapons capacity and concluded that it is no …
DARPA gets the X-37
by | 2004-09-17 | No Comments
DARPA is now running the X-37 program. A few days ago, Space News reported that NASA had turned the X-37 program over to an unnamed government agency. NASA spokesman Michael Braukus has now confirmed that DARPA was the government agency in question. The X-37, designed to operate in both the orbital and reentry phases of …
Greetings from Rock Island, IL
by | 2004-09-15 | No Comments
If you find yourself stuck in Rock Island, make sure to stop by Theo/’s Java Hut in Rock Island(213 17th St. With wifi, though the staff doesn/’t seem to know this) and have dinner at Duck City Bistro in Davenport (115 E 3rd St. Reservations: 563-322-3825 ). To get from Theo/’s to Duck City, you …
