The Word You’re Looking For is ‘Screwed.’

Salon has posted an excellent piece breaking down the situation in Iraq.

If you work with the U.S. or the Iraqi government, you are targeted by al-Qaida. If you work with anyone else, you are targeted by the Shiites. It’s a lose-lose situation. And what’s amazing is this slide has all happened over the past 12 months. It’s pegged to one singular event, the spark, which is the 2006 bombing of the Askariya Mosque in Samarra.

Sadly, that’s kind of the highpoint.

Public Relations

 

 

I’ll pontificate further, after I finish going jobsite (that means yelling at people over the phone, for those of you that don’t speak badowski) on some people.I’ve come to the conclusion that PR firms are kind of like the mafia. Except the mafia has better customer service/satisfaction rates.

The Puma

Peugeot rocks domes by building the warthog from Halo.(via Fark)

Serenity Puppet Show

Reavers get *pwned* in the Serenity puppet show.

Stocking stuffer

A computer controlled air dart launcher that runs off a USB connection. One please.

Fun with pictures

Seventy-five bands/musicians are represented in this image.

For once, Texas is on the right side of a fight.

Texas AG Greg Abbott is filing a law suit against sony over the copy-protected CD’s that do the spyware thing. For once I have no sarcastic comment to follow.

Music giant shocks world by doing the ‘right thing’

Sony has apparently bowed to public pressure and is recalling all of its rootkit installing CD’s. This is good, but they’re still on my ‘very evil’ list.

Photo Assault

I’m making a concerted effort to regulalry add content to the photo section. Each weekday should bring a new shot.