Iraq Veterans Against the War. "When somebody else comes out and speaks, the average American hears him and goes, oh he’s just some college-educated tree-hugger that doesn’t really know what’s going on in the world. But when the average American hears a veteran . . . people listen, because this is somebody who has been on the ground, knows what the realities are, knows what these things mean." more inside

Ridiculously Old Computer Manual I had almost forgotten that one component of computers used to be the punch-card. Jesus, what a world. more inside

Curious George I hesitate to even ask, but there has been some discussion on Data Lounge about photos some photos circulating on the Intarweb. Photos of Dick Cheney with a visible hard on. Any idea where a monkey might find such a photo? My google-fu isn't helping.

Crack Babies Talk Back: how the media created a powerful myth, what science is learning now, and (most importantly) what happened to a few of the children behind it. more inside

R.I.P. O.D.B. Ol' Dirty Bastard dead at 35.

World on Fire. [Quicktime] more inside

Pissed off George Last night and all of today was spent doing what all computer users dread, doing a clean install of my system software and in the process losing all of my documents. My email as well as all of my contacts, documents (including paid video/graphics and copywriting projects) my music and my well maintained selection of web links were erased. more inside

Acceptable US military policy? As a water supply engineer I find the practice of depriving the civilain population of fallujah drinking water to be particularly abhorrent. Oh yeah ... and it's against the Geneva conventions.

In  1968, a French Impressionist artist appeared on the stairway of the Art Institute of Chicago. Meet Lee Godie. Prices for her work have skyrocketed in recent years. Oh yea, she was also into photography.

...relativistic sex would only last for a fraction of a second, and would appear as a sort of muddy grayish white smudge... Mmmh... so it isn't supposed to be like that always..? more inside