http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/ Copyright 2008 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:19:12 +0000 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.11 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss The Room is an episodic novel I am writing. The first five episodes have been published at Combat, the Literary Expression of Battlefield Touchstones, an online labor of necessity and love by a man committed to exploring the psychological impact... http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/04/the_room.html http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/04/the_room.html Primary Entry Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:19:12 +0000 Hexen is more than a game - it’s an exploration by London artist Suzanne Treister of military technologies for psychological warfare. In 1995 she created a fictional alter ego, Rosalind Brodsky, a delusional time traveler who believes herself to be... http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/04/hexen.html http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/04/hexen.html Primary Entry Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:17:13 +0000 I recently presented a keynote address for a Relativity Week conference in Philadelphia, sponsored by InterNetwork Defense, the dojo for Cyber Kung Fu. I was asked to use the concepts of relativity theory to illuminate emergent geopolitical structures. I don’t... http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/04/happy_birthday.html http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/04/happy_birthday.html Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:16:01 +0000 Quiet American at http://www.quietamerican.org/ is a good place to take a break. It’s a wonderful repository of sound art and found sound by Aaron Ximm, a technology entrepreneur from S P Controls, http://www.spcontrols.com/. Quiet American hosts discography, field recordings, and... http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/04/quiet_american.html http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/04/quiet_american.html Primary Entry Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:13:01 +0000 The response to Michelle Obama’s remark that she was proud of being an American for the first time in her adult life is the latest in a series of events that reveal the gulf fixed between the experience of the... http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/03/the_difference.html http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/03/the_difference.html Primary Entry Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:41:22 +0000 A well-educated, highly accomplished friend wrote: Sunday's Washington Post (February 18 2008) opinion section had two front-page articles on declining literacy in the US and on the general dumbing-down of the population. Certainly worth reading, but it also explains far... http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/02/reading_writing.html http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/02/reading_writing.html Primary Entry Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:06:16 +0000 As our conversations about Hillary Clinton, Obama, George W. Bush, and communication evolved. a younger friend on an email list asked these questions. Hence my response, below, not about how to communicate effectively, but how to communicate, period. What, in... http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/02/real_communicat.html http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/02/real_communicat.html Primary Entry Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:42:39 +0000 Aaron Ximm" is the name of my son a.k.a. Aaron Thieme whose new and artist name evolved from the date of his wedding anniversary. He works with a fine tech company that takes most of his time (http://www.spcontrols.com/) but also... http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/02/why_some_younge.html http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/02/why_some_younge.html Comments to Primary Posts Sat, 16 Feb 2008 22:12:09 +0000 If you aren't sure who Hobbit is ... he's a highly respected information security researcher and practitioner, and you can google him and learn more. On a list we share, an article from The Register - MayDay! MayDay! Ruskies reinvent... http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/02/_hobbit_makes_c.html http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/02/_hobbit_makes_c.html Primary Entry Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:53:43 +0000 Maybe it's just the mood after two feet of snow (beautiful, quieting, shutting everything down for a day) on top of as much snow as we usually have in a winter ... or maybe the lack of sleep waiting... http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/02/fresh_cargo_shi.html http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/02/fresh_cargo_shi.html Primary Entry Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:57:51 +0000 Here is a link to a talk I gave for hackers and their many and various associates at Def Con in Las Vegas last summer (August 2007), my 12th year speaking for this wonderful group ... "Hacking UFOlogy" the purpose... http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/01/hacking_ufology.html http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/01/hacking_ufology.html Primary Entry Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:43:29 +0000 A bunch of us were talking online about intelligence and ethics. Yes, I know that sounds like an oxymoron, like “military intelligence,” but as usual, it isn’t that simple. People at the extremes are not in the conversation as a... http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/01/ethical_formati.html http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/01/ethical_formati.html Primary Entry Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:49:18 +0000 A friend on a list said this about Barak Obama: being all too exposed to the level of racism and prejudice in the non-metro areas of our great nation, I've no confidence at all that if elected, he'd live to... http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/01/real_politics.html http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/01/real_politics.html Primary Entry Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:59:51 +0000 Beliefs and Confrontation by Karen Hamp (klhamp@yahoo.com) Two articles in the news left questions in my head. What do I believe in strongly enough to take a public stand? How and why did I form those beliefs? And what would... http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2007/12/a_reader_reflec.html http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2007/12/a_reader_reflec.html Primary Entry Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:27:46 +0000 HAPPY SIXTIETH BIRTHDAY MEET THE PRESS In a recent celebration of sixty years on the air, the news interview program “Meet the Press” ran a montage of VIPs who had appeared on the program. What was striking was that with one exception every single one was lying. Every talking head down through the decades addressed issues with obfuscation, distortion, evasion, everything we have come to expect in a world of spin, PR, and propaganda. Before our eyes, “history” turned into sequences of spin. So when the current candidates for president subsequently appeared in clips, doing the same thing, bobbing and weaving, saying little, it was clear that we have been watching an ongoing charade presenting itself as a responsible news program for decades. As the historian at the National Security Agency said when I asked what history we really shared ... “Anything up until 1945.” http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2007/12/habits_of_thoug.html http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2007/12/habits_of_thoug.html Primary Entry Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:25:05 +0000