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As President Obama announces the end of combat operations in Iraq, let's look at how much Bush's war cost us, compared with the destruction of 9/11. How many Americans did Bush send to their deaths, and how much money did Bush cost us, when compared with Osama Bin Laden?

Author's note: This article was originally published on the website for the 69th NYSV, Co. B.  Reprinted by permission.

I was raised believing that Irish immigration to the New World was due to the Irish potato famine in the 1840's.  This was a lie.  There was no famine; the starvation of the Irish people was caused by the British as a form of genocide.  Does that sound harsh?  Read on.

I just played one of the most fun games I've experienced in a long time.  It's only half finished, it's open source, and they want you to subscribe to a subversion repository.
My relationship with SVN is similar to the Republicans' relationship with public health care.  Not friendly.  So, I found someone who maintains their own Ubuntu-compatible repo for the game.  It took about five minutes to download and install.  The interface isn't terribly intuitive and there's no tutorial, but I managed to start a new single-player game.

A new Op-Ed from today's NY Times attacks the "locovore" movement--people who want to eat locally so that their food has a smaller "carbon footprint" because it hasn't been trucked across the country.

Sadly, there is no incentive any more to write clean code.  So it was with a special, old-school thrill that I had a "hacker moment" earlier today.

I recently blogged about the imminent release of Froyo, a.k.a. Android OS 2.2, for the Motorola Droid on Verizon.  The rollout has begun, but it will take another week or two for it to reach all phones.  I got sick of waiting, so I downloaded the update myself, and then followed up with the big prize: Flash.  Here's how I did it, followed by my first impressions.

Apparently there's a proposal to build a mosque on the site of the World Trade Center.  I like this idea.  No, really.

Of course, my knee-jerk reaction was "absolutely no way."  I don't believe that America is at war with Islam, but it's nevertheless true that the building was brought down by Muslims.  Building a mosque on the site would be like building a giant swastika in Israel.

Except, not really.