Month November 2009

Rumsfeld decision let Bin Laden escape: report

Osama bin Laden was within the grasp of US forces in late 2001 and could have been caught if then-defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld hadn’t rejected calls for reinforcements, a hard-hitting US Senate report says. The report indicates this happened about…

XBRL: Accounting geeks get radical

What if accounting data was presented in a uniform, standardized way in an open XML format that everyone understood. Why, that would be “radical transparency,” and that’s precisely what we need now, an eXtensible Markup Reporting Language (XBRL) Wired says…

Next-gen wind turbine design. No gears

A Scottish startup has tested a prototype wind turbine where the blades connect directly to the generator via an axle. This drastically cuts down the weight of the generator and makes installation simpler. Plus, with fewer parts, the turbines would…

Legoland and the far left

Dave Riley has a thoughtful essay on the tendency of the far left to build castles of rhetoric based on their interpretation of Marxism and to defend it against all other factions. The complication being that inasmuch as you are…