• bush's war - FRONTLINE - PBS
  From the horror of 9/11 to the invasion of Iraq; the truth about WMD to the rise of an insurgency; the scandal of Abu Ghraib to the strategy of the surge — for seven years, FRONTLINE has revealed the defining stories of the war on terror in meticulous de
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• English Russia
  English Russia just because something cool happens daily on 1/6 of the Earth surface
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Every pixel in the illustration represents one person alive on Earth. The first one is you. The rest is everyone else.
http://www.royalsapien.com/pop1/

We are very small, and the universe is very big…
http://www.rense.com/general72/size.htm

On the great Ukrainian bride hunt
“I’ve lived in St. Petersburg for two years, and I wouldn’t date an American woman right now if you paid me!”

A Foreign Affair (Harpers.org)

Well, interesting images from Google’s new Satellite Maps.
http://perljam.net/notes/interesting-google-satellite-maps

SpaceShipOne made history Monday and triumphed in the international Ansari X Prize race to launch the first privately built spacecraft. The reward for finishing first: $10 million.
Official website here.
http://www.wired.com/news/space/0,2697,65212,00.html