ComputerWorld reports that in the coming months, the Chinese company Skytone will release an Android netbook called the Alpha 680. The netbook will use a processor from ARM, a company known for supplying the majority of processorsfound in mobile phones. In fact, the Alpha 680 will use an ARM11 chip–the same one found in the iPhone.

Bartenders and cocktail geeks, more so than adherents of any other epicurean discipline, seem drawn to a dialogue with the past.

However, at the current moment, the real danger of a new terrorist attack on US soil isn’t direct damage (hundreds or thousands of lives lost). Instead, the real danger is from the network effects of that attack on a US economy teetering on the edge of depression. Given this, the simultaneous activation of the plethora of disaster preparedness plans currently in place would likely only serve to amplify the deleterious network effects on the economy – essentially by imposing a heavy security “tax” on every economic activity undertaken nation-wide (even ignoring the impact of organizational panic on normal economic activity). It would also justify another round of massive over investment in an already expensive security apparatus, at the very time we are least able to afford it.