Links 3/21/08
Mar 21st, 2008 by jeremy
- Strongman shatters karate chopping record
- White House press secretary Dana Perino says things like missiles are tough for women to understand. Luckily men understand them through osmosis
- Man builds robot to kill himself
- Two scenes told in Typography, one from The Office and one from Ocean’s Eleven(video)
- Food Porn of the day, Smoked Salmon on Olive Bread
- CEO of subprime mortgage broker is fined $29,000 for saying the F-word 73 times during a deposition (warning, examples are given)
- Bill Richardson endorsing Obama
- Want your stimulus tax rebate faster? File electronically and sign up for direct deposit
- Two State Department employees are fired for snooping into Obama’s passport record
- Name that film Flickr Group. Try and guess the film from a single screenshot
- Heal
- Everything you ever wanted to know about rechargeable batteries
- Very funny newscast from the robot-controlled future (video)
- It’s been five years since the Iraq war started. Five years ago we started looking for WMD’s. Five years ago Donald Rumsfeld said he suspected we wouldn’t have many troops there past six weeks. Five years ago the government claimed the war could be finished with $1.8 billion. Five years ago Bush said “mission accomplished”. Five years ago Rumsfeld said we knew where the WMD’s were, and just had to get them. Five years ago Bush taunted the Sunni Arab guerrillas with “Bring ‘em on”.
- As of yesterday almost 4,000 U.S. soldiers had been killed and over 32,000 had been wounded. As of yesterday over 80,000 Iraqi civilians and members of the defense force had been killed. As of yesterday World Bank economists were estimating the war would cost U.S. taxpayers $3 trillion. As of yesterday over 4 million residents of Bahgdad are displaced according the the Red Cross. As of yesterday 70% still cannot get clean watter or health care and infrastructure is worse on every level than compared to Saddam’s reign, the average home in the Kurds territory (what the administration considers the area that is furthest ahead) gets electricity less than five hours a day. As of yesterday, 9% more children suffer from malnutrition in Iraq than five years ago. As of yesterday oil exports have not on single day matched pre-war levels. As of yesterday unemployment which was already a horrible 30% under Saddam was now between 40-70% depending on the province.
- As of yesterday Dick Cheney called all of this a “successful endeavour”. That same day 25 civilians were killed by a bomb.
