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Movie Review: Flags of Our Fathers

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

After my dinner plans fell through last night, I found myself in Harvard Square with a bit of wanderlust and $1.25 burning a hole in my pocket. I rode down the Red Line to Park Street, ate at McDonald's (first "restaurant" I saw), and then headed to Loews Boston Common to see what movies were [...]

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The End of War

Saturday, December 31, 2005

Gnome developer Miguel de Icaza pointed to Howard Zinn's editorial on war in next month's issue of The Progressive. In it, Zinn posits that the conflict in Iraq might be the last war that the United States takes part in. He claims that war is not the natural state of humanity, and armed conflict only [...]

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War? What War?

Wednesday, December 28, 2005

A few minutes ago, I was looking at the main page of Wikipedia. When I saw that today's featured article was about Sealand, a micronation near to my heart, I thought about writing about it, especially in light of this extremely short but intriguing London Times article.
Then I looked across the page and saw that [...]

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Iraqi Coalition Deaths in Flash

Sunday, June 26, 2005

From Ben Tesch's del.icio.us feed comes a Flash application called "Iraqi War Fatalities." It shows deaths of Coalition personnel chronologically, marking them on a map of Iraq and Kuwait with small black dots and "tic" sounds. During times when the insurgency has been particularly troublesome (like the summer months), the ticking increases in volume. While [...]

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