PUBLISHED: Flagship in a Box
My next piece for Popular Mechanics is up! Read on to learn how the military is developing command and control units to replace to all-important flagship of yore. Lashed to the USS Bataan’s crowded hangar deck, a group of four sea containers provides complete command and control access for a commanding Naval officer. It also gives [...]
Medivac IM
Yay! The first story from Haiti is online at Popular Mechanics; click through to learn how the Navy coordinated with the Army to streamline medivac flights… by using a simple, internet chatroom. Somewhere, Steve Case is smiling. 60s on the beach.
East River Panorama
A three-frame manual panorama of the view a half-block from my apartment; 30" exposures, just after dusk. Click through to flickr to view in the "original" size (actually 1/2 the original file size, which is a whopping 18K x 4K pixels).
Processing heat
Update on that earlier post: According to, ahem, Wikipedia, “Project 02,” Google’s new server farm on Oregon’s Columbia River, is “approximately the size of two football fields with cooling towers four stories high.” Does that mean they’ve reached, again, ahem, critical mass?
TeraHertz per gallon
Your car isn’t the only thing you own that could use a little more efficiency: Computer processors, those postage-stamp sized brains inside just about every digital device we own are wasteful little suckers, converting electrical energy into waste heat. That’s great for a cold office (the duel G5 tower I had at one job made [...]
