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Sunday, November 30, 2003 |
 Which terrorist threat do you see as the most possible: biological or nuclear? My bet is on biological, given the rapid spread of tools and knowledge in bioengineering. The rapid performance and efficiency gains in this space will soon provide a wide variety of people with access to the basic tools of virus and bacteria manufacture -- particularly given that techniques for sequencing genetic information from scratch up to complex codes are being perfected. If you have been watching this space, the speed of the advances being made are breathtaking.
What's more, the final product of bio-engineering is different from a nuke. It can be optimized to lots of different scenarios, with increasing focus over time. <NOTE: There are more flavors than the vanilla nuclear devices we commonly hear about. You can shape the charges to focus the blast in specific directions. You can also modify the core to radically favor discharges of different types of energy (microwave, neutron, etc.). However, this takes more than a bare bones production effort.> Flexibility of application, ease of material acquisition, widely available tools, and expanding knowledge make bioterrorism the top in my book.
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Made a brine-soaked roasted turkey today (we ate at a friends house for T-day so we needed a replacement turkey). It was one of the most succulent turkey's I have ever had. The white meat was as juicy as the dark. Nice. BTW, the brine was a mix of coarse salt, thyme, sage, and rosemary.
7:43:25 PM
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k-collector, an enterprise news aggregator and simple weblogging tool is available for orders.
1:45:07 PM
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Nice approach to promoting an interesting book: Nonzero by Robert Wright. Path dependent complexification is something to keep in the back of your mind when thinking about history.
9:17:34 AM
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NYTimes. Wow, a weblog in China with 10 m visitors a day.
She said she never realized her online diary would be so widely discovered, or that it would grow into a national controversy. But she defended her right to sleep with as many men as she pleased — and to write about it.
9:05:45 AM
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In regards to money, the Google test indicates that we are strangely ill at ease with it. Wealth 8.64 m - Poverty 8.68 m I guess there is a little too much of this motto going around right now: "You don't make the big bucks unless you steal it fair and square."
8:43:04 AM
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© Copyright 2004 John Robb.
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