It was cool that they found the bombers so fast. Yet, I have mixed feelings about what that implies about the 'surveillance society' we live in.

Sometimes things just don't seem to make sense … other times they do.

 

 

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• Google
  Person Finder Located the Missing at Boston Marathon Explosion. (Mashable)
• Stupidity:
  Why Didn't Evolution Make Us All Geniuses? Why we still do dumb things.
  (NS)
• IBM
  CEO Predicts Three Ways Technology Will Transform the Future of Business.
  (Forbes)
• Disruption
  Results from Rational Responses to a Changing Environment. (Harvard BR)
• Stanley
  Kubrick Worried that IBM Would Get Mad About His Psycho Computer, HAL. (BI)

 

Trading Links:

• After
  Apple’s Rise, a Bruising Fall. Wall St. has turned viciously on its
  one-time iDarling. (NYT)
• The
  Death of the PC Has Not Been Exaggerated. (Forbes)
• Computer
  Sales in Free Fall. Quarterly Shipments Dropped 14% (Wall Street Journal)
• New
  Study: Smaller Hedge Fund Managers Outperform. (AllAboutAlpha)
• Condoleezza
  Rice:  Russia Is Really Just a Large Oil
  & Gas Syndicate. (AdvisorOne)