Content tagged target
Blog Entries
Target’s beautifully designed new pill bottle. (Flaws of existing designs on the previous page.) gulfstream/1734
“Uncle Sam Buys an Airplane.” “All this new thinking was in the service of an even blander-seeming, yet revolutionary, concept within the military: … gulfstream/832
About the XM29, the weapon scheduled to replace the M16 in 2008. Fires 5.56mm rounds and 20mm high-explosive rounds—the HE rounds can be set … gulfstream/1091
Milgram’s “Six Degrees of Separation” experiment replicated with email: “Of more than 24,000 chains started, only 384 found their target. … gulfstream/1237
Melbourne Transport Facts from the Public Transport Users Association. These are pretty misleading facts. “Melbourne has one of the largest … gulfstream/1534
Target (the retailer) is for some reason donating significant amounts of time and money to police departments, helping them solve crimes that have nothing … gulfstream/2047
Smackerels
Quotes Collected
To the objection that little logic seemed to lie behind their choice of targets, the air commanders merely insisted that their real target was a concept--enemy … quotes/453
Airmen like Harris argued in the 1920s that armies could fight only other armies, whereas aircraft could strike right to the heart of the enemy's territory, … quotes/452
He [Nicholson Baker] lost a month of 2003 to his obsession with the news, swore off Google News and blogs--he now has a Post-It on his screen saying ONLY … quotes/345
On July 6 [1960], Gates [Tom Gates, the Secretary of Defense] met with Eisenhower to recommend the creation of a SIOP [Single Integrated Operational Plan]... … quotes/330
Under the existing Minuteman ICBM program, the President would have to launch missiles in multiples of fifty if he wanted to launch any, and each ICBM … quotes/284
