The Great Iraq Swindle: : Rolling Stone

Seeded on Sun Aug 26, 2007 11:57 PM EDT (Rolling Stone)

How is it done? How do you screw the taxpayer for millions, get away with it and then ride off into the sunset with one middle finger extended, the other wrapped around a chilled martini? Ask Earnest O. Robbins -- he knows all about being a successful contractor in Iraq.

bush, iraq, politics, corruption

Picnik: Online photo editing

Seeded on Sat Feb 24, 2007 11:09 AM EST (http://www.photojojo.com/)

With Picnik you can quickly edit all your online photos from one place. It's the easiest way on the Web to fix underexposed photos, remove red-eye, or apply effects to your photos.

technology, photography, flickr, photo-editing, picnik

Marine awaits war crime hearing

Seeded on Wed Aug 23, 2006 10:21 PM EDT (mukilteobeacon.com)

"Our son was in the brig for a month without even being charged. I don't understand why our boys are getting treated differently."

iraq, marines, pennington, world-news, baghdad, pendleton-8

2006 SXSW Web Award Finalists

Seeded on Tue Mar 14, 2006 11:05 AM EST (2006.sxsw.com)

2006 Web Awards Finalists -- all sites that have launched or been completely redesigned in 2005.

technology, blogs, design, web-design, sxsw, web-awards

2006 SXSW Interactive Podcasts

Seeded on Tue Mar 14, 2006 10:55 AM EST (2006.sxsw.com)

Podcasts from this year's conference for those of us who couldn't attend...

technology, web-design, podcasting, interactive, sxsw

SIGGRAPH 2005 Conference Presentations

Seeded on Sat Feb 25, 2006 8:29 PM EST (siggraph.org)

From the annual international conference on computer graphics and interactivity. Many of these Quicktime presentations and classes are targeted to Über-geeks, animators, computer scientists, and the technically-inclined. The George Lucas keynote is both informative and inspiring.

technology, animation, visualization, computer-graphics, 3-d, siggraph, digital-film-making, previz

Stupid in America - Sad state of affairs of education in America

Seeded on Fri Jan 13, 2006 10:55 PM EST (ABC News)

"Stupid in America" is a nasty title for a program about public education, but some nasty things are going on in America's public schools and it's about time we face up to it.

america, schools, education