- New EC2 Features: Static IP Addresses, Availability Zones, and User Selectable Kernels – Amazon Web Services Blog
We just added three important new features to Amazon EC2: Elastic IP Addresses, Availability Zones, and User Selectable Kernels. - Department of Remarkably Good Ideas, nuclear weapons edition – blog.pmarca.com
This just in:Defense Secretary Robert Gates has formally ordered the Air Force, Navy and Defense Logistics Agency to conduct an inventory of all U.S. nuclear weapons and nuclear weapon-related materials to make sure all items are accounted for…
The order comes in the wake of the discovery last week that four nuclear warhead fuses were accidentally shipped to Taiwan in 2006…
The inventory review, which will involve thousands of items, is due to Gates in 60 days. Pentagon officials said the request was ordered, in part, because this latest incident comes after the August 2007 accidental flight of six nuclear-tipped cruise missiles on a B-52 bomber across the country.
The CNN headline is to the point and priceless:
Pentagon Ordered To Locate All U.S. Nukes
I’ve been trying to think of an idea that would be even better than this one.
And I have failed.
This is, officially, the best good idea of all time.
Sleep well!
Archive for March, 2008
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March 16, 2008- Why we disagree with Don Norman – Signal vs. Noise
Don Norman, an author, professor, and partner at the Nielsen Norman Group, read the Wired article about us and wrote a piece asking, “Why is 37signals so arrogant?” - Gmail Art Ad (Video) – Google Blogoscoped
From the YouTube caption: “A video that Saatchi Moscow created and produced for Google to attract more Russian people on GMail.” Gmail designer Kevin Fox comments, “Oh my god I want to kiss this video.” Note the Google homepage has been turned into a giant painting before, too…
Amazon: “Turn Off Your Datacenter”
March 3, 2008In my opinion, Amazon is doing more interesting work right now than Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo!, yet those three continue to get more publicity. Here’s a great interview Scoble just did with Jeff Barr, Amazon’s Web Services Evangelist.
