Evil Geniuses Teach How (NOT) To Use PowerPoint (YouTube via Danger Room)

Wired magazine's excellent blog, Danger Room takes another look at the use of PowerPoint in the US military. While the entire article is worth reading (Danger Room has covered the relationship between PPT and the military extensively), the video embedded below is priceless...

Improving Intellipedia (YouTube.com)

A friend (Thanks, Chris!) recently pointed me towards a video on YouTube that makes some really good suggestions for improving Intellipedia. You can see it below:



Beyond the quality of the idea (which makes sense to me, though I am in no position to evaluate it), I am fascinated by the choice of venue for the video -- YouTube. Bringing the debate into a public forum is bound to draw some attention from national security bloggers such as the guys over at Danger Room or intel community watchdogs like the guys over at the Federation of American Scientists. It may even interest wiki experts such as the ones at Wikinomics.

I don't know if this external debate will change anything but I don't see how it can hurt. Thanks to ckras, the video's author, for sharing his ideas!

Surreal Saturday: B2 Bomber Cycle (Northrop Grumman via Danger Room)

Danger Room has been batting 1000 for the last couple of days. Not only did they break the story on the Palestinian rocket making video but they also have this unique post on the celebrations surrounding the 20th Anniversary of the B2 bomber. Check out the Northrop press release for full details and additional pics.

Excellent "Lesser Taught" Language Resource (DLI via DangerRoom)

Wired.com's DangerRoom featured an excellent language resource from the Defense Language Institute for some of the lesser known (only because they are lesser taught in the US) languages. Not everything on the site is accessible to non-military but the stuff that is available is very good. In addition to the fine language resources, I was particularly impressed with the "Countries In Perspective" section that provides short, descriptive country studies on about 20 countries.

Iran-Navy Clash Raw Footage And Iranian Naval Strategy (Via Wired's Danger Room)

Wired's Danger Room has aggregated some of the most interesting coverage and provided some of the best commentary on the recent Iranian-US Naval incident (an incident that the Iranians are now saying was faked by the Pentagon). In a recent post they covered "How Iran Attacks At Sea" with numerous links to outside sources (including a very interesting observation from Michael Tanji of Haft of the Spear). This morning they posted some raw footage of the incident viewable below (from the AP hosted through ClipSyndicate). Danger Room's style is sometimes quirky, but I find it well worth the reading. They do an excellent job.