http://www.ramblings.com/ Copyright 2010 Tue, 29 May 2007 17:57:27 -0600 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.11 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Do not write letter/ Without order refreshment Do not comb/ Hair is spoiling floor Do not make mischiefs in cabin/ Our waiter is reporting Come again/ All are welcome whatever caste If not satisfied tell us/ Otherwise tell others God... http://www.ramblings.com/archives/2007/05/irani_restauran.html http://www.ramblings.com/archives/2007/05/irani_restauran.html Tue, 29 May 2007 17:57:27 -0600 Spiegel, AFP, and the Times of London on Putin's test today of a new ICBM with multiple reentry vehicles, supposedly designed as an explicit counter to Bush's planned missile shield. The claim is that it's START-II compliant because it uses... http://www.ramblings.com/archives/2007/05/putin_fires_a_m.html http://www.ramblings.com/archives/2007/05/putin_fires_a_m.html the long 20th century Tue, 29 May 2007 17:49:39 -0600 Some footage of a car bomb being detonated in Mosul. Maybe most astounding is the coming attractions section at the end of the video.... http://www.ramblings.com/archives/2007/05/fun_fun_fun_til.html http://www.ramblings.com/archives/2007/05/fun_fun_fun_til.html Iraq Tue, 29 May 2007 07:11:10 -0600 Truck bombs make the weak strong: orders of magnitude more spectacularly and more efficiently than the other cheap staples of “low-intensity” warfare--Stingers, Katyushas, Kalashnikovs. Thanks to widely available manuals and the diligence of CIA, ISI, and their studious pupils in al Qaeda, the know-how to construct truck bombs is now fully globalized. “Terrorism is a playground epithet in the serious business of geopolitics,” and the car bomb is indiscriminate in its utility: at once left and right, insurgent and internecine, Shia and Sunni, and, occasionally, an instrument of the intelligence agencies of the great powers. Every continent except Antarctica has seen truck bomb attacks in the last thirty years: the trail of death and destruction stretches from the British counter-insurgency in Palestine to the Saigon Hôtel de Ville, from ultra-right operatives of the OAS in Algeria to mafia warfare in Sicily and Colombia, from Timothy McVeigh to Indira Gandhi’s clandestine support for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Nadu. http://www.ramblings.com/archives/2007/05/a_poor_mans_air.html http://www.ramblings.com/archives/2007/05/a_poor_mans_air.html RMA Tue, 29 May 2007 04:49:30 -0600