This sounds really cool, in a mildly creepy kind of way: [Rick] McKenzie has devised Crowd Federate, a model that will add a crowd component to a variety of defense simulations. "The intent is to provide a real-time, realistic, psychologically based crowd model to provide interactions...
The Bearded Ducks, unsurprisingly, hold a lead after the first half of the season. Loomis trails closely, and a mad run by Axis of Evel Knievel has placed Dave Noon.
Connoisseurs of world-class, 5-star wingnuttery will be pleased to note the return of Alec Rawls and his lunatic obsession with the shape that hates America. Oh yeah, that's the stuff....and,.
"Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win 'Vocalist of the Year'."I recently took in the new film about the great songwriter (and alma mater of Canada's finest university), Leonard Cohen. (70 facts about him here.) It played before a packed house on...
Syd Barrett has died, only thirty-five years late.Syd Barrett, the troubled genius who co-founded Pink Floyd but spent his last years in reclusive anonymity, has died, a spokeswoman for the.
Matt has some good comments on the excellent Fred Kaplan article on the latest US Army counter-insurgency doctrine. I differ from Matt on a couple of points, however. Matt writes:I.
On the occasion of the 300th anniversary of Grace Sherwood's witchcraft conviction through trial by water:"With 300 years of hindsight, we all certainly can agree that trial by water is an injustice," [Tim] Kaine wrote. "We also can celebrate the fact that a woman’s equality is...
Interesting comparison:The most wanted Chechen rebel warlord, Shamil Basayev, has died in an explosion in the neighbouring republic of Ingushetia.Russia's FSB security service chief, Nikolai Patrushev, said Basayev was killed.
I think Anthony Cordesman's point regarding North Korean missile ranges helps explain Peter's observation that the Japanese are really freaked. Cordesman:There is absolutely no meaningful agreement about what the more.
Governor Fletcher continues to stagger me with his tin-eared ineptitude. Irritated that he's been indicted, Ernie has proposed that the Treasurer and Attorney General of Kentucky ought to be appointed, rather than elected. Both positions are currently held by Democrats, and the latter has pursued Governor...
Publius has already addressed the most baffling claim in the latest in Jon Chait's increasingly strained defenses of Joe Lieberman and attacks on evil blogofascists, his argument that Kos et.
While I was away, any number of conservatives who either honestly or passive-aggressively oppose gay marriage tried to sell the idea that the New York Court of Appeals' upholding of.