Recommended Reading
Top Billing! Presentation Zen – John McCain’s background visuals and Obama delivers speech like a symphony
Garr Reynolds analyzes the visual and staging atmospherics and structural presentations ( not the content) of the convention acceptance speeches and makes suggestions for improvement.
After the U.S. Congress moronically killed off the half-finished Superconducting Super Collider in the 90’s to save a few billion that they promptly spent filling in the giant tunnel again, the LHC represents the largest experimental step forward in investigating particle physics that we are likely to see for years.
Valdis Krebs – How do good practices spread and become transformative?
Michael Scheuer – Playing With Fire: Pakistan’s Unintended Strategic Challenge in India’s Homeland
Claremont Institute – There He Goes Again: A Review of The Age of Reagan
Foreign Policy –Seven Questions: Reading the Tea Leaves in Pyongyang
That’s it!
September 15th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Even the experts on NK have no idea what is going on or what is going to happen.
That is the scariest place on earth, since it is capable of inexplicable and unanticipated bad behavior on a large scale, and it cannot be assumed to be rational actor.
I hope the Chinese, USA, SK and others can eventually shut the thing down without a big blowout. Wishful thinking maybe. Fingers crossed.
September 16th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Thx Zen! I’ll make a physicist out of you yet (or at least give you the lexicon to flummox your Historian brethren at parties :-)).