I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.
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Salon has a brief, spunky little piece on televised
war porn and our news networks. “You can almost hear
them muttering to each other behind the scenes, ‘Where’s the shock and
awe? We were promised shock and awe, damn it!'”
From: Todd Thomas
Subject: snow
Here in Denver we’ve been somewhat distracted from war by the biggest
snowstorm in almost 90 years. I’ve taken some
pictures over the last few
days.
Raed, inside Baghdad. “the
english speaking radio station on FM is now replaced by the arabic
languge state radio program broadcasting on the same wave length. i just
say thet because last night just as the BBC was broadcasting from
baghdad (yes we have put up the sat dish again) their news ticker (or
whatever you call that red band down there) said that the Iraqi state
radio has been taken over by US broadcast.”
He
even sort of looks like Optimus Prime.
Did anyone get a photo of that gorgeous, 180-degree rainbow in front of
the Santa Cruz Mountains this morning? (As viewed from Silicon Valley.)