Fascinating article in Vanity Fair, my favorite magazine, on the TSA and the $1.1 trillion the US Government has spent on the agency since 9/11. Written by Charles C. Mann: To walk through an airport with Bruce Schneier is to see how much change a trillion dollars can wreak. So much inconvenience for so little benefit [...]
An epic, 7,500-word feature from Wil S. Hylton in today’s New York Times Magazine details everything currently known about AF447 — from the crash nearly two years ago to last week’s recovery of the flight data recorders. This is an excellent read. Four hours later, Purcell was up with the sun, and by late morning [...]
Yesterday marked the first birthday of my son Benjamin and it’s been quite a year. Jude and I have gotten accustomed to being parents of a sensitive, humorous, handsome, blond-haired, blue-eyed, head-strong boy. We enjoy almost every minute and it seems like yesterday we were at Boulder Community Hospital at 7:30am watching the shape of [...]
I didn’t know this jet could hover like a Harrier. But for $112 million, it probably should? The coolest feature is the heads-up display inside the helmet instead of on top of the dashboard. The pilot simply looks down (as if the plane wasn’t there…
Mark Healey is a professional web developer living in Boulder, Colo.
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