From Alaska Dispatch: When a bear wants to join the hot tub party, what’s an ex-governor to do? [1]
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Hooray! After recognizing that the predominantly gray ACU [2] uniform was a costly mistake, the U.S. Army is adopting MultiCam [3]. OBTW, once the old ACU uniforms start to get sold inexpensively as surplus, anyone that lives out in sagebrush country might want to pick up a few sets. Sagebrush is one of the few foliage backgrounds where the ACU pattern blends in well.
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SurvivalBlog Editor at Large Michael Z. Williamson [4] sent word of a scary new bit of Big Brother technology: The Backscatter Van [5]. Oh and speaking of new surveillance technology, there is also Phantom Eye [6]. Up at 65,000 feet, it will probably just appear to be another anonymous contrail.
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And also on the topic of intrusive technology, see: Silently Self-Profiling – You [7]