December 20, 2003

• dng--- Amazing find. This young man's articulate view of what must be the most dangerous job on the planet is all the better for the true sense of immediacy--- we won't read this in a book some six months later , we'll experience a scant 24-48 hours since it happened. Whoda thought that war was blogging's killer app?
• i'm glad you posted it, dng. there seems to be a controversy over on mefi because it's a self-link. bah. it's an incredible inside look at history as it happens. i can't wait to read part 2. and, frankly, i thought it was sad and rude, how mefites jumped all over his ass for posting a "self-link." but then again, mefites seem to be real good at doing that.
• If people want to "self-link" themselves on Monkey Filter then by means do so. As long as it's not porn or spam I couldn't care less.
• Whoda thought that war was blogging's killer app? War is the ultimate killer app... And, while the 'self-link' controversy is MeFi at its most petty, the questions about the poster's legitimacy are valid (MeFi has been hoaxed before, and as they say: "on the internet, nobody knows you're a dog"), and JJBotter is going to some trouble to verify himself.
• What a guy. Mind you, I'd be a little irked as well if I was witness to something as huge as this and no one believed me.
• The page no longer seems to exist, although it might just be temporarily down (its been gone all weekend, at least, but I haven't checked back since Christmas Day).
• Well, we (that being the US and/or Iraq) definitely has him still. What I want to know is what became of the spider hole. Is it now a historic site. Do Saddam backers use it as a shrine? Do other people use it to do their business?