] But Fox News Channel reported that coalition forces were
] guided to the site after breaking into Saddam's coded
] communication system, known as a Jaguar security
] encryption system.

(unconfirmed) Saddam's Bunker Located via Cracked Jaguar Encryption

] The correspondent, Shaker Hamed, issued the call for help
] on Abu Dhabi TV saying that "25 journalists and
] technicians belonging to Abu Dhabi television and Qatari
] satellite television channel Al-Jazeera are surrounded in
] the offices of Abu Dhabi TV in Baghdad".

Baghdad reporter issues SOS (April 09, 2003)

] Al-Sahhaf's aura of confidence, along with the surprising
] resilience of Iraqi fighters in the first weeks of the war,
] have become an unlikely source of pride for an Arab world that
] has watched the invasion in impotent anger.
]
] "He's the comic relief of the war," said Salwa, a 59-year-old
] Egyptian teacher. "At the same time, he's the voice of victory
] that we want to believe."
 . . .
] By Monday, U.S. troops were occupying the Baghdad parade
] grounds and one of the main presidential palaces and calmly
] chatting live on TV with a Fox News reporter. Meanwhile,
] a few hundred yards away on the eastern bank of the Tigris
] River, al-Sahhaf stood on the roof of the Palestine Hotel
] telling reporters that U.S. troops had been taught "a lesson
] that will not be forgotten in history" and were "committing
] suicide against the walls of Baghdad."
 . . .
] Indeed, it seems like the only appropriate ending for
] this televised point-counterpoint (with al-Sahhaf on one
] side and reality on the other) would be for a U.S. tank
] to roll by in the background of one of al-Sahhaf's news
] conferences with a soldier holding up a "Hi, Mom" sign.

Iraqi information chief unshakable as Baghdad falls around him

] The Secret Of Psalm 46 was first presented on 23 March 2002
] at the Game Developers Conference in San Jose,
] California. It was accompanied by a digital video of a
] total solar eclipse, synchronized to a harpsichord
] recording of JS Bach's Art Of Fugue.

Brian Moriarty is a brilliantly-gifted speaker (and a heck of a game designer). This talk that he gave at GDC 2002 was a work of art. Inspiring, moving, and thought-provoking, and I will never forget it. I'm glad that a transcript is on the web, though I don't think that reading this can even come close to the "performance art" that was the talk itself.

I'm also meme-ing this because he spoke of some codes and messages hidden in music. If you're interested in cryptography, or conspiracies, or the history of the game industry, this is worth a read.

Brian Moriarty | Lectures | The Secret Of Psalm 46 (2002)

In a move sure to complicate the efforts of Al Jazeera to get its English-language Web site running, Akamai Technologies abruptly canceled a contract on Wednesday to provide Web services for the site.

"No web cache for you!"

Akamai Cancels a Contract for Al Jazeera's Site

Robert Fisk: a brave and honest journalist.

A collection of Articles & Reports by Mr. Robert Fisk Audio & Video

This is the child John Lee Anderson wrote about in his New Yorker piece.

Yahoo! News - World Photos - Reuters

This is a complete Super-DMCA page with the text of the laws in various states and detailed information. Who can fight this in Tennessee??

Freedom to Tinker: Status of State Super-DMCA Bills

] A U.S. airstrike on Monday targeted a building in Baghdad
] that time-sensitive intelligence suggested senior Iraqi
] leaders, including Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and his
] sons, were meeting there.
]
] How is intelligence like that gathered and how reliable
] is it?

Finally, something about the real bad asses in this conflict. Special Forces.

Ex-SAS commando discusses covert operations

] The war against Iraq may be drawing to a close but the
] war over its Internet future is just beginning.
]
] As with the overthrow of the Afghanistan regime by US
] forces, it is widely thought that the removal of Saddam
] Hussein from power will see the Middle Eastern country
] catch up with the rest of the world in terms of Internet
] infrastructure and use.
]
] Currently, there is limited, expensive and
] state-controlled Internet use in Iraq, beamed via
] satellite since sanctions on the country have made it
] unable to install pipes and networks. In the north of the
] country, the Kurds have set up their own system free from
] Baghdad control by riding on the back of satellite feeds
] for Turkey. It too, however, remains very costly.
]
] But any Internet construction in Iraq will inevitably
] take place through its assigned country-code top-level
] domain - .iq.

I want the domain, high.iq :)

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