The Skeleton Project

Great animation and story from Colby Buzzell describing a day of fighting in Iraq. Part of the OPERATION HOMECOMING documentary that explores the firsthand accounts of American servicemen and women through their own words.

Scooped from Slate:

“Iraq is a very important part of securing the homeland, and it’s a very important part of helping change the Middle East into a part of the world that will not serve as a threat to the civilized world, to people like—or to the developed world, to people like—in the United States.”
—Washington, D.C., […]

Olbermann is not afraid to say it like it is.

Pretty cool little video of what computing may be like in the future.

Kurt Vonnegut one of my favorite authors has passed away. I am generally not a big fiction reader but I always enjoyed his books.
Check out the NY Times article on his passing.
Here is part of his address at Mark Twain House…his definition of Shock and Awe.
Brilliant.

Wednesday, May 14, 2003
Vonnegut on “Shock and Awe”
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