January 15, 2008
“The smoking [aerosol] gun” at Ft. Detrick?
A comment from the Sunshine Project biodefense listserve:
“…and there are so many dual-use, offensive-defense projects in the April 2007 CBDP (Department of Defense Chemical and Biological Defense Program) Report that it would take me an entire chapter of another book to go through them all, including aerosolization projects. One even calls for the aerial delivery of an alleged GM vaccine for nerve gas. a sick joke and a fraud. all US armed forces have injectors for nerve gas. you have to inject yourself within about 10 seconds after exposure or you are dead about a minute later. no way you could wait for some alleged vaccine to be delivered by air. you would have died a hideous death by then. no it is clear they are developing a system for the aerial delivery of nerve agents in combat as a weapon. remember: offense (agent) plus defense (vaccine) plus delivery system (aerosolization) equals a weapon.â€
sunshine project: biodefense
link to 2007 CBDP report
March 7, 2007
Where next at ARC?
I just had a conversation with two guys from the Institute for the Future of the Book, a little project started by the Annenberg school. They have a number of extremely cool projects underway, including a multimedia authoring tool called Sophie that is gorgeous and absurdly easy to use. More interesting for ARC, however, are the web experiments in creating better commenting and collaborative writing tools. Check out, for instance, their version of the Iraq Study Group report. This is the kind of thing I imagine being useful for ARC as it seeks to explore the co-creation of concepts, and the challenge of getting beyond single-author call and response forms of co-labor…
January 16, 2007
A different kind of concept work
Just browsing to see what “Concept Work” gets us. One thing it gets us is this.