What Fires You Up?

6/07/2003

 

Assorted Bookmarks from Spring 2003

This is a real mixed-bag - unsorted, good for browsing online

Bookmarks scotsman.com
Strawberry-Yogurt Parfaits
AOL Watch
MySanAntonio Tech-Science
Fourth squirrel attack
The Orator (nz)
1911encyclopedia.org
AndrewSullivan Book Club
carcino.gen.nz humor
AMPP Ancient History
CIA World Factbook 2002
Critical Mass
Junius
Gallimaufry
Ha'aretz
Lang List Tools and freetune
US Dept of Justice
NAVAS GROUP
o u r C h a r a c t e r . c o m Behavioral Elements
Oates for Tanger
Hofstadter Paranoid Style American Politics
Smart-Ass Guide to Art - Incompetech
Christian Nation Myth
Architecture of Mod Political Power

BJ 6/07/2003 11:29:00 PM

6/03/2003

 

Peter Maas, New Yorker, and Salam Pax Yeah - here's a good read!

http://slate.msn.com/id/2083847 Salam Pax is Real

in Slate you will see the article from Monday by Peter Maas, who realized AFTER the Iraq trip that his interpreter was the real Salam Pax!

"Baghdad was hectic when two blogging friends e-mailed me to suggest that I track down "Salam Pax." I had no idea who or what they were talking about. I could have handed over the job of sorting out this Salam Pax thing to my interpreter—he was a clever and funny Iraqi who never failed to provide what I needed, whether it was interviews or pizza—but I let it pass. I thought I had better things to do.
This is funny and great to read!

BJ 6/03/2003 08:27:00 PM