links for 2010-01-29

  • This story about the dozens of innocents killed and maimed by Blackwater at Nisour Square in 2007 is hard to read, especially since it focuses on the death of nine-year-old Ali Kinani, a boy who loved American soldiers. He was shot in the head during the just-for-fun shooting spree led by the private contractors.
  • The island of Vulcan Point is in Crater Lake, which is on Crater Island, which is in Taal Lake, which is on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. I have an urge to travel there, dig a pond on Vulcan Point, establish a small island there, and dub it Luzon.
  • This pup was rescued from the Baltic sea after floating 100 miles down a Polish river on an ice floe. Some fisherman spotted him. This article is complete with video of the desperate little guy trying to balance on this tiny hunk of ice, and then being hauled in and dried off.
    (tags: dog)

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Waldo Jaquith (JAKE-with) is an open government technologist who lives near Char­lottes­­ville, VA, USA. more »