Vince Kimball – Page 6 – To Talk of Many Things

Wired interview with Bram Cohen

Wired interview with Bram Cohen. Wired interviews Bram Cohen, the smart dude who gave us BitTorrent. [Ceejbot]

Make Firefox faster

Make Firefox faster. This article explains how to turn on http pipelining to make Firefox slurp web pages faster. You might not want to do this if you regularly use your browser over a dialup connection. Otherwise, no-brainer. [Ceejbot]

One of the things that really bothers me about America's new security regime is that it ignores economic realities. The current world order isn't run by nation-states. It's run by Adam Smith (aka global markets).
The history of the last 20 years will focus on the radical expansion of these markets to encompass 3 billion people. It was the tipping point for capitalism.

However, markets are harsh rulers. They punish non-economic behavior with a sharp slap of the invisible hand. There isn't any special immunity for the US.

So, when we spend $150 in direct security costs for every barrel exported by Iraq, we invite the slap. The cost of Iraq's security isn't reflected in the price of oil, nor is the $5 per barrel of naval security we pay for every barrel of oil from the Persian Gulf. [John Robb's Weblog

One of the things that really bothers me about America's new security regime is that it ignores economic realities. The current world order isn't run by nation-states. It's run by Adam Smith (aka global markets). The history of the last 20 years will focus on the radical expansion of these markets to encompass 3 billion… Continue reading One of the things that really bothers me about America's new security
regime is that it ignores economic realities. The current world order
isn't run by nation-states. It's run by Adam Smith (aka global
markets).

The history of the last 20 years will focus on the radical
expansion of these markets to encompass 3 billion people. It was the
tipping point for capitalism.

However, markets are harsh rulers. They punish non-economic behavior
with a sharp slap of the invisible hand. There isn't any special
immunity for the US.

So, when we spend $150 in direct security costs for every barrel
exported by Iraq, we invite the slap. The cost of Iraq's security isn't
reflected in the price of oil, nor is the $5 per barrel of naval
security we pay for every barrel of oil from the Persian Gulf. [John Robb's Weblog

Evangelism

Evangelism. This Fortune article proves that the thousands of hours I spent pioneering the business/blog space on K-Logs and on my weblog paid off. It's great to see that the thousands of people, in as many companies, that read my work (or I worked with one-on-one) were able to leverage it into a revolution. I… Continue reading Evangelism

Information Overload Project

Information Overload Project. Lois C. Ambash's Information Overload project, InfoYou, is conducting a survey to collect data about how people find, organize, and use information. The point? To then create personalized tool kits to help people avoid info overload. If you fill out the survey, you get a thank-you PDF of “Infomaven's Top Ten Free… Continue reading Information Overload Project

Bad Quote

Bad Quote. In a story on a computer glitch that forced Comair to cancel 1,100 flighs on Christmas Day, I was quoted in an AP story as saying: “If this kind of thing could happen by accident, what would happen if the bad guys did this on purpose?” he said. I'm sure I said that,… Continue reading Bad Quote

Web Design Overview

Web Design Overview. A lot of good stuff from Molly E. Holzschlag on the current state of web design, CSS, and tables vs. DIV tags. The 55 comments are also well worth reading. [via Scoble] [Leave It Behind]

Juan Cole

Juan Cole on superpower baiting. US intervention in Iraq has confirmed bin Laden's frame for the conflict. [John Robb's Weblog]

The president and…

The president and…. The president and the White House have now compared their build-up to the Iraq war with their push to phase out Social Security enough times that it seems worth creating a detailed taxonomy of the Bush White House approach to major policy initiatives in order to predict their efforts over the next… Continue reading The president and…

A Look At Desktop Search Tools Still Under Development

A Look At Desktop Search Tools Still Under Development. James Fallows reviews cutting edge work underway in the area of desktop search applications, with a focus on I.B.M.'s Unstructured Information Management Architecture Project. “An Unstructured Information Management (UIM) application may be generally characterized as a software system that analyzes large volumes of unstructured information (text,… Continue reading A Look At Desktop Search Tools Still Under Development