links for 2007-09-15

• SuicideGirls > News > Geek > Wil Wheaton’s Geek in Review: Brave New World
  There is a communications revolution happening right now. It crosses generations, and it scares the absolute shit out of a lot of people who benefit from ignorance and the control of information.
  (tags: awesome communication daily internet politics riaa rights tech wilwheaton geekinreview)
• ORB – Opinion Business Research – Newsroom
  In the week in which General Patraeus reports back to US Congress on the impact the recent ‘surge’ is having in Iraq, a new poll reveals that more than 1,000,000 Iraqi citizens have been murdered since the invasion took place in 2003.
  (tags: surge escalation Iraq war million deaths murder Bush Petraeus casualties study toread)
• Aging U.S. sewers on slippery slope – USATODAY.com
  Recent flooding in the Midwest has brought to the surface another crisis involving the nation’s aging infrastructure: Heavy rains regularly overwhelm sewer systems, causing lake and river pollution.
  (tags: infrastructure sewers flooding engineering USA climatechange globalwarming)
• cleek » Pony!
  The Petraeus plan, explained as simply as possible.
  (tags: pony brilliant chart Petraeus Iraq war)
• U.S.-IRAQ: Fallon Derided Petraeus, Opposed the Surge
  Fallon told Petraeus that he considered him to be “an ass-kissing little chickenshit” and added, “I hate people like that”, the sources say. That remark reportedly came after Petraeus began the meeting by making remarks that Fallon interpreted as trying t
  (tags: general iraq military petraeus politics propaganda surge war media fallon)
• Most think founders wanted Christian USA – USATODAY.com
  Yikes.
  (tags: news study Christianity USA stupidity religion)

~ by SAP on 15 September 2007.