DEBKA claims the Saudi attack was aimed at the royal family. This
was the first attempt by Osama bin Laden’s organization to assassinate
a member of the Saudi royal family. It is a pivotal event in that it
sharply escalates the terrorist offensive besetting the kingdom and
raises the stakes on both sides. I concur that the [...]

The Saudi Takedown Scenario. Reuters.
2 huge car bombs explode near Saudi security buildings. Earlier this
year, my analysis indicated that the campaign against the Saudi state
would begin in December, after the US elections. Over the past months,
I have made major revisions to my Saudi takedown scenario based on my
evolving model of global guerrilla warfare. The [...]

Belmont Club. Some interesting analysis of the existing Tsunami alert system. Here's a great animation of the wavefront from the Tsunami (it provides a timeline of impact). [John Robb's Weblog]

All Stick and NO Carrot. I agree with David Stephenson on this. The US is missing a major PR and goodwill opportunity. BTW, it looks like Pfizer is giving as much as the entire US to disaster relief. Spain nearly doubled the US contribution at $68 million…
A little free thinking: [...]

The Economist. The Death of the American Meritocracy….
This premise of this article is totally correct. My personal experience
totally confirms this. The new US tax laws will only only accelerate
this trend. Societal ossification in the face of extreme global competition (from both economic and system competitors) is bad, bad news… [John Robb's Weblog]

Goss continues to clean house in the CIA. It won't change anything.
This is an understatement: Even before taking charge of the CIA,
Goss and his close associates had been openly critical of the agency's
directorate of intelligence, saying it suffered from poor leadership
and was devoting too much effort to monitoring day-to-day developments rather than broad [...]

Wired interview with Bram Cohen. Wired interviews Bram Cohen, the smart dude who gave us BitTorrent. [Ceejbot]

Make Firefox faster.
This article explains how to turn on http pipelining to make Firefox
slurp web pages faster. You might not want to do this if you regularly
use your browser over a dialup connection. Otherwise, no-brainer. [Ceejbot]

One of the things that really bothers me about America's new security
regime is that it ignores economic realities. The current world order
isn't run by nation-states. It's run by Adam Smith (aka global
markets).
The history of the last 20 years will focus on the radical
expansion of these markets to encompass 3 billion people. It was the
tipping point [...]

Evangelism. This Fortune article proves that the thousands of hours I spent pioneering the business/blog space on K-Logs
and on my weblog paid off. It's great to see that the thousands of
people, in as many companies, that read my work (or I worked with
one-on-one) were able to leverage it into a revolution.
I am not usually the [...]