Listening to: Yeah! - Zwan

From The
Miami Herald (via Discourse.net via Brad
DeLong):

Pictures of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan posing with hooded and bound detainees
during mock executions were destroyed after the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq
to avoid another public outrage, Army documents released Friday by the American Civil
Liberties Union show.
…
The investigation showed that the pictures were taken in and around Fire Base Tycze
in southern Afghanistan, according to the documents, which blacked out the identities
of those interviewed.

Listening to: not too sure… this was computer generated.

Master
McPhail Training - 9

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And let THAT be a lesson to you all!

Listening to:  Brendon

Found on NewScientist.
A big ass lump of ice is thought to lie just below the surface of Mars… and they
think they have the evidence.

A frozen sea, surviving as blocks of pack ice, may lie just beneath the surface
of Mars, suggest observations from Europe’s Mars Express spacecraft. The sea is just
5° north of the Martian equator and would be the first discovery of a large body
of water beyond the planet’s polar ice caps.
…
The team of researchers, led by John Murray at the Open University, UK, estimates
the submerged ice sea is about 800 by 900 kilometres in size and averages 45 metres
deep.

UPDATE: BBC World has an article
with pictures.

Listening to: not too sure… this was computer generated.

it
was a little too cold to be topless

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Listening to: Once Upon A Time - Simple Minds

Day 95 is now
online.

Listening to: Cloud City - Concord Dawn

Hitchhikers trailer …
50Mb of goodness… while the Flash version on Amazon didn’t fill me any glee at all…
I am a little more optimistic now. Hat tip additiverich.

Listening to: Nighten - Aspen

Provoke is after an intermediate
.Net developer. We’re looking to add someone to our nation
leading software team.

You’re a .Net developer and you have good taste and you have an educated, pragmatic,
opinion on software. In a world of out sourcing you want to move onto the next step
in designing and implementing software. You want to operate in a ‘better by design’
environment.

We’re looking for people who know what it is to work in the current environment and
who have the requisite ’clue’(*) to help us work in the future.
The guy
below is  one of those people (but as of now he’s gallivanting ’round South
America)… we’re looking for people to fill big shoes.

(*) I can’t tell you what that is… but I know it when I see it (yes I will be interviewing).

Listening to: The sound of the office

On Friday we said good bye to Party
Boy. Enjoy your trip!

Listening to: The air conditioning kicking in.

Often on BBC World I have seen interviews done in the atrium of the London Stock
Exchange. In the background of these interviews is this kinetic sculpture which has
always captivated me:

Turns out it was done an art-programming collective called Greyworld.
Here are the stats from the Wired
article that describes the system:

The eight-story installation, dubbed the Source, consists of 729 spheres suspended
from 81 pairs of cables. Each strand stretches the height of the LSE’s 105-foot atrium,
and every sphere runs on an internal motor. When connected to a server, the 6-inch
orbs form abstract patterns and words, everything from a double helix to news from
RSS feeds.

Listening to: The hum of my computer.

Amazon have got the The
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy trailer on their front page.