It’s a synthesis of everything I love: a makerbot made of LEGO, printing… more things made of LEGO. The recursiveness is great. But so is the premise. Is that potentially the tipping point fo...
My dissertation is done and complete. “Aden in the Balance: Airpower and Counterinsurgency in Aden, 1956-1967” has been handed in, and until I hear or decide otherwise, I am officially finish...
This article reads like a serious version of the above cartoon PSA: “Standards are rapidly changing, and within a few years the human race will be in a position in which sexual immorality could...
Aside from the usual terrible, terrible commentary both at YouTube and the site I found this at, it’s an excellent ad (at least for the first 40 seconds). It doesn’t matter if you’re from t...
https://automaticballpoint.com/2010/07/24/this-was-once-a-country-where-people-made-things/
Isao Hashimoto has produced this magnificent video of all 2,053 nuclear explosions – almost all tests – conducted between 1945 and 2003 (that’s everything ever except the two North Korean t...
https://automaticballpoint.com/2010/07/07/a-history-of-violently-blowing-things-up/
This is the last post I’ll write on the subject (probably), but it makes for a good distraction from studying. The exam’s tomorrow. This is how I roll. Anyways, I got a lovely thank-you email...
https://automaticballpoint.com/2010/06/03/libyan-thugs-in-the-heart-of-london-contd-again/
A friend of mine got mugged over the weekend coming back from a bar on Saturday night. Luckily, only his phone was taken and he wasn’t hurt at all. Naturally, CCTV was useless in helping to pre...
https://automaticballpoint.com/2010/06/02/i-guess-cctv-is-good-for-something/
Regardless of what the true story is with the Israeli interception of a Gaza-bound flotilla, all sides and interested parties will take away from it what they want to. Much like the al-Durrah inc...
https://automaticballpoint.com/2010/05/31/whatever-happened-happened-one-of-several-ways/
Like Air Force One over Mount Rushmore, it’s hard to find anything more American than Johnny Cash reading the Gettysburg Address. It’s days like this where I’m embarrassed by my lack of elo...
Last week, Russian defense firm Concern Morinformsystem-Agat announced it had designed a clever new launch system for cruise missiles: the Club-K. Designed in the form of a standard shipping cont...
https://automaticballpoint.com/2010/05/12/hiding-in-plain-sight/