A Culture of Candor. In a previous life, a fellow executive and I used to bemoan what we called "hypocritical politeness."  That may not be the best term for it, but what we were trying to fight was a culture that valued not hurting someone's feelings more than it valued telling people what they needed to know to get their job done, make improvements, etc.  People were being polite, but they weren't being helpful. [Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog]

Truth and transparency are terrifying. Why do you think Jesus (John 3:19-21) talks about how we avoid the light. I should think that even a blog is only a well-filtered view of what someone knows about themself (and a tremendous amount lies hidden, even from ourselves).
5:14:42 PM    

The coming ice age.

At the stealth conference I'm at we just heard from David Gallo from the Woods Hole Oceanic Institute (WHOI) who has explained that we're entering into a mini-ice age in the next 10-15 years that will drop temperatures 10-15 degrees (Fahrenheit) in the northeastern US and northern Europe. It will last 200-300 years. It is due to the current warming cycle which is melting the polar ice caps which is putting fresh water into the Atlantic which is disrupting the flow of warm air up the coast of the US and cycling down to Europe.

Stockpile eiderdown.

Here's a Discover article. And one from the WHOI. [JOHO the Blog]

I'd read this somewhere, with a pointer to the painting of Washington crossing the Delaware: apparently it doesn't normally (in these days) look like some chunk of the arctic ice pack, but it did back in the late 1700's.
5:06:33 PM    

My nightmare in words. From Victor's blog:
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Here's the text to the book - I'll have to download this to save in my documentation folder... ;-)

-Russ [Russell Beattie Notebook]

Hold on, Russ, this post has my CSS fingerprints all over it. You could have acknowledged that you got it from my feed, at least.
4:59:26 PM    

What faith sees.

I asked AKMA what a person of faith saw when he saw the events of 9/11. I saw human mayhem. What did a faithful person see?

AKMA replies. I'm really glad I asked. [JOHO the Blog]

Thank you, AKMA
2:17:52 PM